The Greater Ari­ma Cham­ber of Com­merce is call­ing for a se­ries of strength­ened na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures, say­ing the cur­rent cli­mate re­quires more ad­vanced sys­tems and mod­ern en­force­ment tools.

A 30-year-old Pe­nal man was sen­tenced on Tues­day to 37-and-a-half years im­pris­on­ment with hard labour af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed of five counts of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a child, fol­low­ing a judge-alone tri­al.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al has been ex­tra­dit­ed to the Unit­ed States to face armed rob­bery and con­spir­a­cy charges, more than a decade af­ter fail­ing to ap­pear in court.

The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions has giv­en in­struc­tions to charge a 28-year-old po­lice of­fi­cer in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley, as in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­ten­si­fy in­to her killing and the dis­ap­pear­ance of a large quan­ti­ty of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has de­scribed the di­rec­tive to charge a mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer with the mur­der of act­ing Cpl Anusha Ever­s­ley as a “sig­nif­i­cant break­through” in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is pleased that the head of the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice was sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave, as she lament­ed that for months, cor­rup­tion was al­lowed to fes­ter at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion.

The Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment says the rec­om­men­da­tion to place the head of the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave came from a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer, not from any po­lit­i­cal di­rec­tive.

Days af­ter the bru­tal mur­der of po­lice cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley, at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj said all Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions should en­sure their of­fi­cers are safe.

Days af­ter Pe­nal busi­ness­woman Fa­ree­da Al­ladin Bal­go­b­in and a close male rel­a­tive were ar­rest­ed by po­lice, Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) have been is­sued for both of them.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s han­dling of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, de­scrib­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s crime plan as a “rolling state of emer­gency” based on “pub­lic ma­nip­u­la­tions.”

It was a night of yel­low flags and soar­ing rhetoric. Stand­ing be­fore a sea of sup­port­ers at the par­ty’s Ch­agua­nas head­quar­ters near­ly one year ago, a promise of a new eco­nom­ic dawn was made.

For more than two decades, thou­sands of young peo­ple have en­tered job train­ing pro­grammes de­signed to pre­pare them for the work­force, but ques­tions per­sist over whether those pro­grammes are con­sis­tent­ly trans­lat­ing in­to em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties.