Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the launch of the Na­tion­al Pros­thet­ics Cen­tre in Pe­nal will ex­pand health­care ser­vices in Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) while po­si­tion­ing the coun­try as a re­gion­al hub for re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion ser­vices and train­ing with­in Cari­com.

A $1 mil­lion agro-pro­cess­ing fa­cil­i­ty aimed at boost­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s food in­dus­try was opened on Sat­ur­day at Brechin Cas­tle, Cou­va.

As she toured Nel­son Is­land this morn­ing with the In­di­an Min­is­ter of Ex­ter­nal Af­fairs, Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced the es­tab­lish­ment of a com­mit­tee head­ed by per­ma­nent sec­re­tary in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Natasha Bar­row, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go, to over­see the process.

A Fron­tier Air­lines plane hit and killed a pedes­tri­an on the run­way of the Den­ver In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port dur­ing take­off, air­port au­thor­i­ties said, spark­ing an en­gine fire and forc­ing pas­sen­gers to evac­u­ate.

A prison of­fi­cer at­tached to the Port-of-Spain Prison has been placed un­der a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed on sus­pi­cion of fa­cil­i­tat­ing the in­tro­duc­tion of pro­hib­it­ed items in­to a cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ty.

Four sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed and charged in con­nec­tion with the mur­ders of Ken­neth Gill and Bernard Ma­habir, whose bod­ies were found in the trunk of a burnt ve­hi­cle off Old Va­len­cia Road, near­ly two weeks ago.

There will be no Moth­er’s Day cel­e­bra­tion at Bhag­wan­daye Ramharack’s home to­day, as she faces a bit­ter re­al­i­ty that her daugh­ter’s in­no­cent life was cut short far too soon.

A 43-year-old San­ta Cruz man who was kid­napped from his home on Thurs­day was res­cued by po­lice dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Laven­tille on Fri­day.

Body by Im­ran founder Im­ran Razac says his fam­i­ly’s ex­pe­ri­ence at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal has giv­en him a new ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the work done by med­ical staff in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has de­nied claims cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia re­gard­ing the res­ig­na­tion of three reg­is­tered nurs­es em­ployed by the au­thor­i­ty.

Po­lice said around 2:50am, a rel­a­tive was in the liv­ing room of their home when she heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions, and lat­er dis­cov­ered Brath­waite on the ground out­side bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi was killed in a reprisal at­tack, linked to the in­ci­dent that led to the mur­der of nine-year-old J’lay­na Arm­strong in April.