The Galil ri­fle that went miss­ing from the T&T De­fence Force’s head­quar­ters at Teteron Bar­racks in Ch­aguara­mas last Sat­ur­day, was re­cov­ered by law en­force­ment of­fi­cers in the Mac­queripe area yes­ter­day.

To­ba­go econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James, who once cam­paigned for the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) and To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, is now cam­paign­ing for a new gov­er­nance sys­tem in the THA.

While the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty is heart­ened by the Unit­ed States’ fi­nan­cial do­na­tion to help curb gun crimes in the Caribbean, there are calls for the pub­lic to be told how that mon­ey is be­ing spent and what val­ue they will get from it.

With three vi­o­lent home in­va­sions in a week, res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore are now ap­peal­ing for in­creased po­lice pa­trols. The in­ci­dents oc­curred at Cun­jal Road South and Ju­lian Trace.