A San­gre Grande man has been grant­ed $100,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the South High Court on charges linked to a miss­ing po­lice firearm from the Ma­yaro po­lice sta­tion.

The con­tro­ver­sial po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Recre­ation Ground in Tacarigua drew a high-lev­el se­cu­ri­ty vis­it yes­ter­day, even as the dis­pute over its con­struc­tion at the recre­ation grounds re­mains un­re­solved.

Res­i­dents of Gol­con­da and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties are rais­ing con­cerns about noise, heat and the po­ten­tial im­pact on schools from the pro­posed con­struc­tion of a da­ta cen­tre at the Debe Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zone along the M2 Ring Road, Gol­con­da.

Queen’s Hall has re­ject­ed claims that it with­drew ap­proval for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to hold its an­nu­al con­ven­tion and car­ni­val event at the venue, say­ing nei­ther date was ever for­mal­ly ap­proved.

Thou­sands of peo­ple wait­ed for aid on the In­done­sian is­land of Flo­res on Mon­day as the coun­try marked its 81st In­de­pen­dence Day, two days af­ter a pow­er­ful earth­quake killed at least 68 peo­ple, in­jured more than 200 oth­ers and dam­aged thou­sands of homes.

Hun­dreds of peo­ple have been killed in the year since the U.S. mil­i­tary be­gan bomb­ing boats it ac­cused of fer­ry­ing drugs off Latin Amer­i­ca’s Caribbean and Pa­cif­ic coasts. Now, the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion says it is seek­ing to ex­tend that lethal cam­paign to land, pur­su­ing deals that would put U.S. forces on the ground in al­lied na­tions across the re­gion.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­veal how many cit­i­zens her Gov­ern­ment has re­port­ed to Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties with rec­om­men­da­tions that their US visas be re­voked.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of sev­er­al items from a Laven­tille gro­cery store, for which an ex­ter­mi­na­tor is be­ing sought as a per­son-of-in­ter­est.

Rel­a­tives of 28-year-old Nigel “Poo­gie” Mo­hammed are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing a pre-dawn po­lice op­er­a­tion in La Ro­maine yes­ter­day that left Mo­hammed and an­oth­er man dead.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says the ab­sence of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er is a non-is­sue as the po­lice ser­vice re­mains with ca­pa­ble lead­er­ship.

PanTrin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore has crit­i­cised the han­dling of the re­cent con­fronta­tion be­tween po­lice and mem­bers of Sil­ver Stars Steel Or­ches­tra, in­sist­ing that a lack of un­der­stand­ing of steel­band cul­ture con­tributed to the in­ci­dent.

The sud­den death of 18-year-old dancer Jed­da Be­har­ry has left her fam­i­ly dev­as­tat­ed and search­ing for an­swers, with rel­a­tives re­fus­ing to com­ment on the cir­cum­stances of her pass­ing un­til an au­top­sy is com­plet­ed.