Fif­teen men have been ar­rest­ed in sep­a­rate po­lice ex­er­cis­es in San­gre Grande, Ari­ma and San Rafael for out­stand­ing court-or­dered main­te­nance pay­ments.

The sec­ond sus­pect in the po­lice-in­volved killings on Thurs­day night in To­ba­go is a Trinida­di­an. Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Rod­hil Kirk said yes­ter­day that no rel­a­tive has yet pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied the body. How­ev­er, he said re­li­able sources have con­firmed the sus­pect is from To­co.

The sec­ond sus­pect in the po­lice-in­volved killings on Thurs­day night in To­ba­go is a Trinida­di­an, a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cial has re­vealed.

The Me­dia In­sti­tute of the Caribbean (MIC) has been grant­ed con­sul­ta­tive sta­tus as a non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tion in part­ner­ship with the Unit­ed Na­tions Ed­u­ca­tion­al, Sci­en­tif­ic and Cul­tur­al Or­gan­i­sa­tion (UN­ESCO), strength­en­ing its role in pro­mot­ing in­de­pen­dent and sus­tain­able me­dia across the re­gion.

A 25-year-old man has been ar­rest­ed in Ari­ma in con­nec­tion with mul­ti­ple lar­ce­ny in­ves­ti­ga­tions, with po­lice re­cov­er­ing a blue cool­er be­lieved to have been stolen dur­ing a house break-in.

Fif­teen men have been ar­rest­ed in sep­a­rate po­lice ex­er­cis­es in San­gre Grande, Ari­ma and San Rafael for out­stand­ing court-or­dered main­te­nance pay­ments.

A pri­vate he­li­copter has joined the des­per­ate search for miss­ing To­ba­go fish­er­men David McLean and Kester Alexan­der.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has per­formed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8,400 ma­jor sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures and an­oth­er 15,000 pro­ce­dures in oth­er ar­eas, in­clud­ing den­tal ser­vices, un­der its new board and man­age­ment, with the num­bers con­tin­u­ing to rise.

Two men are cur­rent­ly miss­ing af­ter fail­ing to re­turn home from a fish­ing ex­pe­di­tion near Scar­bor­ough on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

The late Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co will be ho­n­oured with a na­tion­al Cel­e­bra­tion of Life on Oc­to­ber 16, with the pub­lic in­vit­ed to pay their re­spects dur­ing two days of view­ing ahead of the cer­e­mo­ny.

The trade union move­ment has post­poned its planned mass demon­stra­tion through Port-of-Spain from Oc­to­ber 16 to Oc­to­ber 23, out of re­spect for the late ca­lyp­so icon Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co, whose state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al is sched­uled for the same day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ques­tion­ing whether the tim­ing of Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co’s state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al on Oc­to­ber 16 is an at­tempt by the Gov­ern­ment to di­vert pub­lic at­ten­tion from her re­sponse to the na­tion­al Bud­get, which is sched­uled for the same day.