For­mer Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Nizam Baksh called for peace world­wide as Mus­lims cel­e­brat­ed Eid fol­low­ing Ra­madan. Speak­ing at the Bar­rack­pore Is­lam­ic Cen­tre, he de­scribed Eid as a time to strength­en uni­ty and build “ca­ma­raderie and re­la­tion­ships” that ex­tend be­yond the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty.

Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI di­rec­tor who trans­formed the na­tion’s pre­mier law en­force­ment agency in­to a ter­ror­ism-fight­ing force af­ter the Sept. 11, 2001, at­tacks and who lat­er be­came spe­cial coun­sel in charge of in­ves­ti­gat­ing ties be­tween Rus­sia and Don­ald Trump’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, has died. He was 81.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to strength­en bor­der se­cu­ri­ty through new on­line en­try sys­tems and leg­is­la­tion to sup­port the Ad­vanced Pas­sen­ger In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (APIS).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the Unit­ed States-op­er­at­ed radar once based in To­ba­go “it did serve us well,” as she ad­dressed con­cerns over its re­moval.

The Na­tion­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Of­fice (OFNAC) re­ports that on Fri­day an Em­braer 145 air­craft op­er­at­ed by the com­pa­ny IBC, veered off the run­way as it land­ed at An­toine-Si­mon Air­port in the town Les Cayes, to the west of here.

Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists were re­fused per­mis­sion to stage a planned march in San Fer­nan­do un­der the State of Emer­gency, but will pro­ceed with a week of prayer from Sun­day.

Sev­en­teen peo­ple have been named in a mass de­ten­tion or­der is­sued overnight un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, the largest such use of the pow­er since the start of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to is­sue a pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­der (PDO) against a 16-year-old boy, the first mi­nor de­tained un­der the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has bro­ken her si­lence on the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the de­liv­ery of an in­vi­ta­tion for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) re­cent 70th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions to for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen says con­sul­ta­tions are still un­der­way on the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed na­tion­al pol­i­cy for gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties, as ef­forts con­tin­ue to for­malise a frame­work aimed at strength­en­ing crime pre­ven­tion mea­sures.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says the pay­ment of back­pay owed to teach­ers will not be com­plet­ed by the end of this month, even as re­vised salaries have al­ready be­gun to reach ed­u­ca­tors.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tor­neys Ran­dall Mitchell and Stu­art Young have filed a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest, call­ing on the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) to give de­tailed in­for­ma­tion on the hir­ing of Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke as an ad­vis­er/con­sul­tant to NGC.