Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon host a per­ma­nent Jaipur Foot Ar­ti­fi­cial Limb Fit­ment Cen­tre, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced yes­ter­day, call­ing it “a gift of dig­ni­ty and in­de­pen­dence” for hun­dreds of cit­i­zens liv­ing with am­pu­ta­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is again deny­ing that there is any rift be­tween this coun­try and Venezuela and is even go­ing so far as to blame the me­dia for man­u­fac­tur­ing the il­lu­sion of a rift.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she re­mains in sup­port of US strikes on al­leged Venezue­lan drug traf­fick­ers, even as she seeks to fos­ter a bet­ter re­la­tion­ship with that coun­try’s leader, Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro. On Tues­day, Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio as­sured the Prime Min­is­ter that the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion sup­ports Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Drag­on gas project. Af­ter bi­lat­er­al dis­cus­sions on en­er­gy and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, high on the agen­da in Wash­ing­ton, DC, Sec­re­tary Ru­bio ac­knowl­edged the sig­nif­i­cance of the Drag­on gas plan to T&T’s eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty and re­gion­al sta­bil­i­ty.

Two teenage boys and a 42-year-old man have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the theft and at­tempt to sell lap­tops be­long­ing to a sec­ondary school.

Twen­ty-eight Venezue­lan girls and women were de­tained dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion at a pop­u­lar club in San­gre Grande yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Se­nior prison of­fi­cer Garth Gua­da, who re­mains in­car­cer­at­ed at the Teteron Bar­racks in Ch­aguara­mas, was tak­en to hos­pi­tal on Thurs­day for med­ical treat­ment af­ter he com­plained of feel­ing un­well.

High Court Judge Karen Reid has re­served her judg­ment in the civ­il mat­ter aris­ing out of the ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against for­mer min­is­ter Jack Warn­er.

La­belling the gov­ern­ment “di­a­bol­i­cal,” Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les claims plans are un­der­way to strip the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice of the pow­er to is­sue Firearm User’s Li­cences (FUL) and hand it to a new firearms com­mis­sion.

De­spite re­cent suc­cess­es in in­ves­ti­gat­ing and pros­e­cut­ing crim­i­nals us­ing Face­book Mar­ket­place to lure vic­tims, the head of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion says he is still con­cerned about the fre­quen­cy of this type of crime.

T&T so­ca group Kes the Band has an­nounced that their sin­gle Co­coa Tea is of­fi­cial­ly un­der con­sid­er­a­tion for the Gram­my Awards. The track has been en­tered in the cat­e­go­ry of Best Glob­al Mu­sic Per­for­mance, mark­ing an­oth­er step for­ward in the group’s mis­sion to take so­ca mu­sic to in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ences.

The An­gli­can Church in T&T has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to the Rt Revd Dame Sarah Mul­lal­ly DBE on her ap­point­ment as the first fe­male Arch­bish­op of Can­ter­bury.

Kes and Free­town Col­lec­tive will head­line Maple & Mas, an event be­ing host­ed by the Em­bassy of Cana­da in Trinidad and To­ba­go.