Pres­i­dent of the Fyz­abad Cham­ber of Com­merce (FCC) An­janie Jairam is call­ing for the ur­gent de­ploy­ment of joint na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty pa­trols to ad­dress es­ca­lat­ing crime in the com­mu­ni­ty. Her plea fol­lows the mur­der of busi­ness­man Muath Nas­sar, 49, who was gunned down while work­ing at his food out­let on Fyz­abad Road Tues­day morn­ing.

Two days af­ter po­lice killed one man and in­jured an­oth­er dur­ing a rob­bery at­tempt in Aranguez, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) have is­sued a warn­ing to crim­i­nals to stay out of the dis­trict or deal with the con­se­quences.

His bloat­ed and de­com­pos­ing body was spot­ted among the reeds, wedged un­der some bro­ken tree branch­es in the vicin­i­ty of the Ca­roni Riv­er Bridge, South­ern Main Road, Ca­roni, around 1.45 pm.

Laven­tille res­i­dents say they are ner­vous fol­low­ing the mid-morn­ing mur­der of Nef­ta “Nep­py” Charles on Tues­day. They fear there could be reprisal shoot­ings and mur­ders.

A le­gal bat­tle over the seizure of adult sex toys from a lo­cal busi­ness has led to a rul­ing in favour of the claimant, Rogue Adult Toys and Lin­gerie.

A woman who signed as a guar­an­tor on a loan for an ex-boyfriend who is now in jail is be­ing sued for $125,000 af­ter the en­tire loan was not re­paid.

Stake­hold­ers for peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties in this coun­try wel­come the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port’s (MoWT) amend­ments to the De­mer­it Points Sys­tem, which is out­lined in the Ninth Sched­ule of the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment) Act, 2017.

In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Shri Naren­dra Mo­di has of­fered Cari­com coun­tries con­ces­sions rang­ing from ex­ten­sive tech­nol­o­gy train­ing and as­sis­tance to a re­gion­al foren­sic cen­tre, fer­ries, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal and agri­cul­ture help, and train­ing for par­lia­men­tar­i­ans and women crick­eters.

The Leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) says he will an­nounce his can­di­dates for next year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions once the date is set.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land has called on vic­tims of ex­tor­tion to come for­ward. He said the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit is ready and wait­ing, but it is up to the vic­tims to seek as­sis­tance.

Rel­a­tives of Jamie Mo­hammed must wait un­til foren­sic pro­ce­dures are con­clud­ed on the de­com­pos­ing head­less body found in Siparia last week, be­fore it is re­leased to them.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ch­agua­nas West, Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly, has de­scribed as “a trav­es­ty of jus­tice” the col­lapse of the case against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers who were charged with ex­tor­tion, mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, per­vert­ing the course of jus­tice, and mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of funds.