Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds be­lieves that the ad­di­tion of two drones to the ar­se­nal of the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus will go a long way to­wards curb­ing crime. He said this yes­ter­day at the min­istry’s Aber­crom­by Street head­quar­ters, when the Unit­ed Na­tions Of­fice on Drugs and Crime (UN­ODC) hand­ed over the de­vices.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings is seek­ing to dis­pel con­cerns that there is bad blood be­tween him­self and par­ty chair­man Stu­art Young.

Stu­dents and staff at Mal­ick Sec­ondary School were evac­u­at­ed yes­ter­day af­ter a fire broke out on the com­pound.

Pres­i­dent of the Fyz­abad Cham­ber of Com­merce (FCC) An­janie Jairam is call­ing for the ur­gent de­ploy­ment of joint na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty pa­trols to ad­dress es­ca­lat­ing crime in the com­mu­ni­ty. Her plea fol­lows the mur­der of busi­ness­man Muath Nas­sar, 49, who was gunned down while work­ing at his food out­let on Fyz­abad Road Tues­day morn­ing.

Two days af­ter po­lice killed one man and in­jured an­oth­er dur­ing a rob­bery at­tempt in Aranguez, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) have is­sued a warn­ing to crim­i­nals to stay out of the dis­trict or deal with the con­se­quences.

His bloat­ed and de­com­pos­ing body was spot­ted among the reeds, wedged un­der some bro­ken tree branch­es in the vicin­i­ty of the Ca­roni Riv­er Bridge, South­ern Main Road, Ca­roni, around 1.45 pm.

Laven­tille res­i­dents say they are ner­vous fol­low­ing the mid-morn­ing mur­der of Nef­ta “Nep­py” Charles on Tues­day. They fear there could be reprisal shoot­ings and mur­ders.

A le­gal bat­tle over the seizure of adult sex toys from a lo­cal busi­ness has led to a rul­ing in favour of the claimant, Rogue Adult Toys and Lin­gerie.

A woman who signed as a guar­an­tor on a loan for an ex-boyfriend who is now in jail is be­ing sued for $125,000 af­ter the en­tire loan was not re­paid.

Stake­hold­ers for peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties in this coun­try wel­come the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port’s (MoWT) amend­ments to the De­mer­it Points Sys­tem, which is out­lined in the Ninth Sched­ule of the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment) Act, 2017.

In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Shri Naren­dra Mo­di has of­fered Cari­com coun­tries con­ces­sions rang­ing from ex­ten­sive tech­nol­o­gy train­ing and as­sis­tance to a re­gion­al foren­sic cen­tre, fer­ries, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal and agri­cul­ture help, and train­ing for par­lia­men­tar­i­ans and women crick­eters.

The Leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) says he will an­nounce his can­di­dates for next year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions once the date is set.