Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is again re­fus­ing to dis­close the pro­ject­ed cost or con­trac­tors for the Gov­ern­ment’s planned 30 po­lice posts, say­ing the in­for­ma­tion will be made pub­lic at a lat­er stage to avoid “dra­ma.”

An es­ti­mat­ed $167.37 mil­lion was lost to fraud­sters up to Ju­ly this year, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad.

Two men have been placed in pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, amid in­tel­li­gence link­ing them to or­gan­ised crim­i­nal groups and planned at­tacks.

More than a week af­ter bomb threats to sev­er­al build­ings, in­clud­ing courts and a shop­ping plaza, trig­gered evac­u­a­tions and a wide­spread mo­bil­i­sa­tion of se­cu­ri­ty re­sources, po­lice say the mat­ter re­mains un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh says the au­thor­i­ty is work­ing to ad­dress re­port­ed short­ages of sev­er­al med­ica­tions, in­clud­ing breast can­cer drugs ex­emes­tane, anas­tro­zole and letro­zole, as well as some psy­chi­atric drugs.

The Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) has lost its case seek­ing dis­clo­sure of in­for­ma­tion on a ter­mi­nat­ed work­er from the Min­istry of Labour.

Bmo­bile says its telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices and cus­tomer-sup­port chan­nels have been re­stored fol­low­ing dis­rup­tions caused by mul­ti­ple fi­bre breaks yes­ter­day.

With less than two weeks be­fore the start of the new school term, pres­sure is mount­ing on the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to pro­vide an­swers on the Gov­ern­ment’s school sup­plies and book grant, as par­ents com­plain that their ap­pli­ca­tions re­main stuck at the pro­cess­ing stage.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is work­ing to­wards greater co­or­di­na­tion among the po­lice, fire and am­bu­lance ser­vices, say­ing emer­gency agen­cies must re­spond as a team to pro­vide a more ef­fec­tive ser­vice.

Work has be­gun to clear piles of garbage that ac­cu­mu­lat­ed across Va­len­cia, af­ter the con­trac­tor re­spon­si­ble for waste col­lec­tion stopped ser­vic­ing the area.

A lo­cal gov­ern­ment coun­cil­lor is call­ing for faster as­sis­tance for res­i­dents af­fect­ed by Tues­day’s se­vere weath­er, as re­ports of dam­age to homes in south­west­ern com­mu­ni­ties con­tin­ue to in­crease.

A 38-year-old man charged in con­nec­tion with a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Princes Town was grant­ed bail with sure­ty in the sum of $75,000 when he ap­peared be­fore the South B-1 Mas­ter’s Court on Tues­day.