An Ari­ma farmer who failed to an­swer his phone on Fri­day night was yes­ter­day found dead in the back­seat of his ve­hi­cle, which had been aban­doned along Bal­isi­er Road, Aripo.

A 21-year-old woman from Matu­ra has been slapped with three charges in re­la­tion to the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim. 

Sev­en­ty-two of the 114 em­ploy­ees at the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC) are be­ing sent home at the end of the month, af­ter re­ceiv­ing just a one-month con­tract ex­ten­sion, sources say.

Sev­er­al il­le­gal firearms were re­cov­ered and five men ar­rest­ed dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es across Point Fortin, Guapo, and Siparia be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.

One man was de­tained and two firearms seized dur­ing joint po­lice op­er­a­tions across Port-of-Spain and the North East­ern Di­vi­sion on Fri­day.

Guyana has hand­ed over a new of­fi­cial res­i­dence to CARI­COM Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett, end­ing a decades-long re­liance on rent­ed ac­com­mo­da­tion.

A man ar­rest­ed by Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly at­tempt­ed to harm him­self twice while in cus­tody, prompt­ing ef­forts to have him re­mand­ed to the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan says claims that the pro­posed Stand Your Ground law can have more dele­te­ri­ous im­pacts on one race are “ridicu­lous” and amount to crim­i­nal­is­ing en­tire com­mu­ni­ties.

The Gov­ern­ment is re­view­ing the list of med­ica­tions of­fered un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lakram Bo­doe con­firm­ing that con­sul­ta­tions have al­ready be­gun.

For­mer At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan SC says crit­ics of the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed Stand Your Ground law should give up their US visas if they are se­ri­ous about op­pos­ing the leg­is­la­tion.

Thai­land and Cam­bo­dia trad­ed ac­cu­sa­tions Sat­ur­day of fresh at­tacks as dead­ly bor­der clash­es en­tered a third day, leav­ing at least 33 peo­ple dead and more than 168,000 dis­placed, as in­ter­na­tion­al pres­sure mount­ed on both sides to reach a cease­fire.

The gov­ern­ment of Cana­da has start­ed send­ing mil­i­tary sur­veil­lance drones to sup­port Hait­ian se­cu­ri­ty forces, as part of a new ini­tia­tive to com­bat vi­o­lence and the spread of armed gangs across the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) mem­ber states.