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Rodney Baker, the man whose photo was published on the front page of the Guardian Newspaper as a recent related death is alive.

The error was made on the popular daily newspaper yesterday.

Today, Mr. Baker says the error has traumatized his family.

Mr. Baker and his wife contracted the virus last month.

She died of the virus but Mr. Baker survived.

He is currently in home self-isolation after spending weeks at hospital.

Speaking on The Morning Show on i95.5fm earlier, Mr. Baker said he prefers not to take the legal route but would if he has to.

Mr. Baker who is the father of 2 children said the loss of his wife has already dealt his family a significant blow.

He is hopeful the error will be corrected.

Police find 1,000 grams of marijuana in Blanchisseuse.

Officers of the Blanchisseuse Police Station found the drug yesterday.

The officers were conducting an exercise at the time of the find.

The exercise was conducted between the hours of 1pm and 6pm.

The officers say as a result of information received they went to La Fillette Village Blanchisseuse and observed a man along the roadway approximately 100 meters away.

Police say when they approached the man; he dropped a large black garbage bag and ran into some nearby bushes making good his escape.

When examined, the bag was found to contain a quantity of plant like material resembling that of marijuana, which weighed 1000 grams.

PC Beard is continuing enquiries.

The Firearms Amendment Bill 2021 gets the support of the Opposition and the government.

The Bill, which caters to the use of pepper spray, was passed in the Upper House yesterday.

However, 2 Independent Senators abstained from the vote.

In his winding up of debate on the Bill yesterday, Attorney General Faris Al Rawi says the legislation gives victims a fighting chance.

Earlier Independent Senator Deoroop Teemal said training must be given to holders of the device in order to ensure proper use.

Senator Teemal said the legal restrictions on pepper spray might prevent it from protecting the targets of crime.

Apostle Lincoln Doughty is not apologising for taking members of his congregation to Harris Promenade in San Fernando for a prayer session hours after a State Of Emergency was declared.

The Head of the El Shaddai Deliverance Ministries last Sunday wished COVID death on police officers who went to the Promenade and dispersed some 20 members of the prayer group.

Apostle Doughty is reported today as saying he answers to God and not man.

He is predicting many more COVID related deaths in the country.

Yesterday Bishop Keith Ramdass of the Great International West Indies Fellowship said this is not the way children of God respond to anything.

Bishop Ramdass further called on churches to support the government. 

Apostle Doughty has also come under fire from the Head of the Interreligious Organisation, Dean Knolly Clarke who described his behaviour as ‘sickening and sad.”

But the Trinidad Guardian quotes Apostle Doughty as saying he has “no regrets, and no apology”.

He said man created COVID and it is real.

Attorney General Faris Al Rawi says newspaper headlines saying that the government was late in giving the legal facts of the State Of Emergency are inaccurate.

Speaking with media at the COVID-19 briefing yesterday the Attorney General cautioned editors to pay attention to what is being published.

Mr. Al Rawi made it clear this SOE was erected to treat with a deadly enemy.

Mr. Al Rawi noted that the regulations were issued on Sunday, and are currently in effect.