A for­eign used car deal­er, ac­cused of tak­ing de­posits from cus­tomers and fail­ing to de­liv­er ve­hi­cles or give re­funds, has been freed of ten fraud charges. 

A Fire­Pow­er Fire­works rep­re­sen­ta­tive suf­fered third-de­gree burns and was hos­pi­talised in crit­i­cal con­di­tion yes­ter­day af­ter fire­works ac­ci­den­tal­ly dis­charged dur­ing prepa­ra­tions for the In­de­pen­dence Day dis­play at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

Sev­er­al peo­ple were ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day as an­gry pa­trons at­tempt­ed to storm the FOC Fete in Ch­aguara­mas, while oth­ers in­side the venue be­gan throw­ing bot­tles at peo­ple on stage.

Nine­teen Venezue­lan na­tion­als, in­clud­ing two mi­nors, were de­tained af­ter po­lice in­ter­cept­ed a pan­el van dur­ing an ex­er­cise in Glen­coe over the week­end.