Hin­dus con­clud­ed the cel­e­bra­tion of Ganesh Us­tav on Sun­day with the im­mer­sion of a clay mur­ti (or idol) of Lord Ganesh in­to a body of wa­ter.

Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Sen­a­tor Don­na Cox, has giv­en as­sur­ances that every­thing pos­si­ble is be­ing done to as­sist the res­i­dents of Belview Road, Wind­sor Park, Clax­ton Bay, who have been af­fect­ed by re­cent land­slips in the area.

Two firearms and a quan­ti­ty am­mu­ni­tion were seized, and a 34-year-old man was ar­rest­ed for mar­i­jua­na cul­ti­va­tion, dur­ing an Op­er­a­tion Strike Back 3 ex­er­cise in St Joseph, yes­ter­day.

A 38-year-old con­trac­tor of Hard Bar­gain Vil­lage, Williamsville, was charged with one count of lar­ce­ny on Sat­ur­day 18th Sep­tem­ber 2021.

Ten per­sons—five men and five women—who were seen lim­ing on the Ma­yaro/Man­zanil­la beach, have been charged with be­ing on a beach for recre­ation­al pur­pos­es con­trary to the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions, by of­fi­cers of the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion.

The Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) has ben­e­fit­ted from the third it­er­a­tion of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Trade Lab Clin­ic, in which third-year law stu­dents from the Cave Hill Cam­pus pro­duced 34 sum­maries of the de­ci­sions of the Court is­sued in the Orig­i­nal Ju­ris­dic­tion be­tween 2008 and 2020.

Youths, farm­ers and agri­cul­tur­al pro­fes­sion­als of Moru­ga and en­vi­rons will soon have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­plore all pos­si­ble op­por­tu­ni­ties in the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor once the Moru­ga Farm School is es­tab­lished ful­ly.

Sev­er­al in­mates at the na­tion’s pris­ons are ex­pect­ed to rep­re­sent this coun­try at the up­com­ing, first In­ter-Con­ti­nen­tal Chess Cham­pi­onship for pris­on­ers, sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 13, 2021.

In the face of rev­e­la­tions of hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars in loss­es on failed projects, the Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) Con­rad Enill has de­nied that the com­pa­ny was reck­less in its in­vest­ment in At­lantic LNG Train 1 and its $200 mil­lion in­vest­ment in the Beach­field project which it lat­er re­alised was not nec­es­sary.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has giv­en the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) un­til noon on Sun­day to with­draw its sus­pen­sion let­ter dat­ed Sep­tem­ber 17 or he will be head­ing to the High Court to ap­ply for ju­di­cial re­view. The ju­di­cial re­view will be filed to de­clare the sus­pen­sion null, void and of no le­gal ef­fect, and for the Court to grant in­ter­im re­lief to stay the sus­pen­sion un­til the claim is de­ter­mined by the High Court.

Six months af­ter re­cov­er­ing from COVID-19, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has a close en­counter with the virus again.

The Min­istry of Health has not yet re­ceived any re­ports from women on ad­verse re­ac­tions re­lat­ed to their men­stru­al cy­cle af­ter tak­ing the COVID-19 vac­cine.