Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two rob­beries that hap­pened in the same gen­er­al area in San Juan less than an hour apart on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Four per­sons were ar­rest­ed and three firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics seized dur­ing ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across sev­er­al Di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

Ukraine’s leader will meet with Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in Wash­ing­ton on Fri­day at a piv­otal mo­ment for his coun­try, one that hinges on whether he can per­suade Trump to pro­vide some form of U.S. back­ing for Ukraine’s se­cu­ri­ty against any fu­ture Russ­ian ag­gres­sion.

The World Bank says it has ap­proved a new project to sup­port Guyana in up­grad­ing and re­ha­bil­i­tat­ing the coun­try’s road in­fra­struc­ture.

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young said yes­ter­day that he is “con­cerned,” but “not un­easy” about the im­pact US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio’s for­eign pol­i­cy plans will have on the Drag­on gas deal and the T&T econ­o­my.

Niger­ian in­te­grat­ed en­er­gy com­pa­ny, Oan­do Plc, was yes­ter­day named as the pre­ferred bid­der to lease the Guaracara re­fin­ery in Pointe-a-Pierre, based on a rec­om­men­da­tion by an eval­u­a­tion com­mit­tee.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her par­ty will not ho­n­our any agree­ment the cur­rent Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment en­ters in­to re­gard­ing the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery—and she says Gov­ern­ment’s “col­lud­ing” with Nico­las Maduro’s Venezuela regime is the “worst Bend Over” in T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor his­to­ry.

As glob­al po­lit­i­cal dy­nam­ics con­tin­ue to evolve, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj be­lieves the Drag­on gas deal re­mains vi­able but se­cur­ing its fu­ture will re­quire adapt­abil­i­ty and strate­gic lead­er­ship.

Two po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists sug­gest that cit­i­zens could be head­ing to the polls in Au­gust, as it may be the most strate­gic time for prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young to call the gen­er­al elec­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray and sen­a­tor Anil Roberts and chair­man Dave Tan­coo have all re­mained mum on a com­plaint al­leged­ly made by Paray to the UNC about an “un­pro­voked al­ter­ca­tion” be­tween Roberts and Paray.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy leader Roodal Mooni­lal has called for the “re­al rea­son” why charges were re­cent­ly dropped against three Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) em­ploy­ees, af­ter not­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley had placed “so much so-called ev­i­dence in the pub­lic space un­der par­lia­men­tary cov­er.”

Sev­er­al band­lead­ers are chal­leng­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Row­ley’s com­ments about for­eign ex­change be­ing wast­ed on the im­por­ta­tion of Car­ni­val cos­tumes, say­ing the truth of the in­dus­try is that it is just too ex­pen­sive to make mas with lo­cal­ly sourced raw ma­te­ri­als.