Chair­man of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), Dr Tim Gopeesingh, says sev­er­al ma­jor up­grades are planned for hos­pi­tals un­der the au­thor­i­ty as part of ef­forts to im­prove con­di­tions for pa­tients, nurs­es and doc­tors.

Bmo­bile says ser­vices and cus­tomer sup­port chan­nels af­fect­ed by mul­ti­ple fi­bre breaks ear­li­er to­day have been re­stored.

Tim Cur­ry, a char­ac­ter ac­tor who cre­at­ed a gallery of de­li­cious, very loony vil­lains for stage and screen, in­clud­ing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Hor­ror Pic­ture Show” and the smug concierge in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” has died. He was 80.

King Charles III and Queen Camil­la will vis­it three coun­tries in and around the Caribbean when he trav­els to the re­gion for the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing, which be­gins No­vem­ber 1 in St. John’s, the cap­i­tal of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da.

A fire trig­gered by an ex­plod­ing air con­di­tion­er killed 14 new­borns in a hos­pi­tal nurs­ery in Pak­istan’s cap­i­tal on Wednes­day, of­fi­cials said.

Bmo­bile says it is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing an in­ter­rup­tion to some of its ser­vices be­cause of mul­ti­ple fi­bre breaks.

Guyana po­lice say a “go-fast” ves­sel with the Op­po­si­tion Leader Azrud­din Mo­hamed among sev­er­al peo­ple on board, had been in­ter­cept­ed on Tues­day night af­ter it al­leged­ly failed to stop when asked to do so by law en­force­ment per­son­nel.

Al­leged mur­der con­spir­a­tor Star Sab­ga has fi­nal­ly heard the leaked au­dio record­ing of an al­leged tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion be­tween her­self and her for­mer co-ac­cused, Genevieve Hadeed, po­lice sources have con­firmed.

Thir­ty-one peo­ple have been killed by po­lice since the start of the year, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures com­piled by the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA), fol­low­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of a Mor­vant man yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Elvin Scant­er­bury says the ar­rest of a fe­male prison of­fi­cer on Mon­day is a tes­ta­ment to the ef­forts of prison of­fi­cers to weed out rogue of­fi­cers from with­in the Prison Ser­vice.

A po­lice con­sta­ble who was last at­tached to the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion has been charged with pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

When fire broke out in his Rousil­lac home, 22-year-old Keron Nehru ran back in­to the build­ing in a des­per­ate at­tempt to save the fam­i­ly home on Mon­day.