A prison of­fi­cer as­signed to the Port-of-Spain Prison has been placed un­der a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) af­ter he was ar­rest­ed on sus­pi­cion of fa­cil­i­tat­ing the in­tro­duc­tion of pro­hib­it­ed items in­to the prison sys­tem.

The rapid rise and fall of Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd’s (RBL) pro­posed fee in­creas­es has thrust the coun­try’s bank­ing sec­tor in­to the spot­light, high­light­ing the ten­sion be­tween cor­po­rate costs and con­sumer pro­tec­tion.

A re­cent cy­ber­at­tack that dis­rupt­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T’s (UTT) on­line op­er­a­tions and forced the post­pone­ment of ex­am­i­na­tions has re­newed con­cerns about the coun­try’s grow­ing de­pen­dence on cloud-based ed­u­ca­tion plat­forms.

Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to re­name Nel­son Is­land with a com­mit­tee to over­see the process al­ready es­tab­lished.

The third an­nu­al Pri­ma­ry Ple­nary Car­a­van gets un­der­way on Mon­day with four schools in To­ba­go East and West get­ting their first lessons.

The Po­lice Acad­e­my, St James, came alive yes­ter­day as hun­dreds flocked to the venue to wit­ness teams from all ten polic­ing di­vi­sions vy­ing for brag­ging rights in the an­nu­al sports and fam­i­ly day.

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.