Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will be in To­ba­go on Tues­day for the grand open­ing of the new air­port ter­mi­nal. The open­ing is sched­uled for 1 pm and will be at­tend­ed by sev­er­al dig­ni­taries, in­clud­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine. The air­port’s open­ing has been de­scribed as a gamechang­er for To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, and comes less than two weeks be­fore the in­au­gur­al week­ly Toron­to-to-To­ba­go flight.

A pri­vate he­li­copter has joined the search in To­ba­go for two fish­er­men who went miss­ing on Fri­day. Rel­a­tives said David McLean, 26, of Low­lands and Buc­coo res­i­dent Kester Alexan­der left on a fish­ing ex­pe­di­tion aboard Preda­tor, a 24-foot pirogue with Yama­ha en­gines, reg­is­tra­tion TFT 2490, on Fri­day morn­ing. They were ex­pect­ed back at 5 pm the same day, but have not been seen since.

The Trinidad & To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA) is hop­ing the wind­fall ex­pect­ed by the Gov­ern­ment from high en­er­gy prices and ex­pect­ed rev­enues from gas projects in 2027 is used well to help re­sus­ci­tate the sec­tor and stim­u­late the econ­o­my.

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.