Four young chil­dren stabbed in a play­ground in the French Alps are no longer in life-threat­en­ing con­di­tion but re­main hos­pi­tal­ized, the re­gion­al pros­e­cu­tor said Sat­ur­day, as the sus­pect­ed at­tack­er was hand­ed pre­lim­i­nary charges of at­tempt­ed mur­der.

The an­nounce­ment was made in a post on the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter's Face­book page last evening.

An an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the South­ern Di­vi­sion be­tween 4 pm and 10 pm on Fri­day, led to the ar­rest of three per­sons—in­clud­ing a Venezue­lan na­tion­al—and the seizure of four AK-47 as­sault ri­fles, 11 mag­a­zines, and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis.

A busi­ness­woman was found dead on Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Matu­ra. Shar­maine Shaffie, a pro­pri­etor of a bar on East­ern Main Road in Matu­ra was found dead around 10:45 am.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

Hun­dreds of peo­ple were turned away emp­ty-hand­ed yes­ter­day, af­ter the Blue Net­work’s well ad­ver­tised launch failed to ma­te­ri­alise at In­vaders Bay.

While the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty is heart­ened by the Unit­ed States’ fi­nan­cial do­na­tion to help curb gun crimes in the Caribbean, there are calls for the pub­lic to be told how that mon­ey is be­ing spent and what val­ue they will get from it.

With three vi­o­lent home in­va­sions in a week, res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore are now ap­peal­ing for in­creased po­lice pa­trols. The in­ci­dents oc­curred at Cun­jal Road South and Ju­lian Trace.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice says there is no need for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion to be launched in­to the video show­ing act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er De­op­er­sad Ra­moutar at a beach gath­er­ing, while two as­sault ri­fles were hang­ing from a tree near­by.

A Cunu­pia woman who at­tempt­ed to es­cape a run­away truck and ran across the road to avoid be­ing mowed down, was still killed af­ter be­ing struck and thrown sev­er­al feet away in some bush­es.

Po­lice re­ports state that the broth­ers were stand­ing along the road when they were ap­proached by two men, one of whom was dressed in cam­ou­flage.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) is ac­cus­ing the gov­ern­ment of at­tempt­ing to block Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions through the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT).