Four ve­hi­cles were stolen in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents with­in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion be­tween Sun­day and Mon­day night, po­lice said.

Po­lice seized a ri­fle and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.

Ten Venezue­lan na­tion­als were de­tained af­ter po­lice in­ter­cept­ed a ves­sel off Erin yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Malaysia-based Petro­liam Na­sion­al Berhad (Petronas) says it plans to drill four new oil wells in Suri­name which are ex­pect­ed to lead to fur­ther pro­duc­tion de­vel­op­ments lat­er this year, ac­cord­ing to state-owned Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vice Suri­name.

Nepal’s prime min­is­ter re­signed Tues­day as protests against a short-lived ban on so­cial me­dia grew in­creas­ing­ly vi­o­lent and ex­pand­ed in­to broad­er crit­i­cism of his gov­ern­ment and ac­cu­sa­tions of cor­rup­tion among the Hi­malayan coun­try’s po­lit­i­cal elite.

In the first in­ci­dent, two men vis­it­ed the Mal­oney Po­lice Sta­tion at around 9.15 pm and re­port­ed that some­one had been killed on Sergeant Road, Red Hill, D’Abadie.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) com­plet­ed tem­po­rary road restora­tion works on the west-bound lane of the Beetham High­way fol­low­ing a rup­tured pipeline and the for­ma­tion of a sink­hole in the Sea Lots area.

As armed po­lice took up posts in high-risk schools yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar vowed to tack­le school vi­o­lence, say­ing enough was enough and call­ing the ini­tia­tive the be­gin­ning of the end for bul­ly­ing and class­room vi­o­lence.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day urged par­ents and their chil­dren to en­ter the new school term with a re­newed sense of pur­pose to make the most of their ed­u­ca­tion.

As the new school term start­ed yes­ter­day, Na­tion­al Par­ent-Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Wal­ter Stew­art laud­ed the re­pairs and emer­gency works car­ried out at over 271 schools na­tion­wide un­der the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s Va­ca­tion Re­pair Pro­gramme (VRP).

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day ad­vised ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) that they were free to “walk away” at any time, if they felt un­able to work with the man in charge and serve as the job de­mands.

Po­lice con­tin­ued their search for two sus­pects con­nect­ed to the kid­nap­ping of Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Daniel Kawall in the hills of Mar­aval yes­ter­day but were un­suc­cess­ful in lo­cat­ing them.