"The po­lice are our friends, they are our pro­tec­tors." Urg­ing the pub­lic to re­spect and co­op­er­ate with law en­force­ment of­fi­cials as their job is to pro­tect and serve, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress's (UNC) can­di­date for Tu­na­puna David Nakhid has de­scribed it as iron­ic that these sit­u­a­tions were emerg­ing in some of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) strong­holds.

The Barataria/San Juan con­stituen­cy, with 25,622 reg­is­tered vot­ers, is con­sid­ered to be a mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy, with vot­ers of­ten shift­ing loy­al­ties be­tween the two ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties.

Po­lice said Nikeisha Hen­ry, 33, of Third Street, was sit­ting in her yard with Fred Si­mon, 23, a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer of 10th Street Ex­ten­sion, Techi­er, when they heard loud gun­shots around 10:20 pm.

A Barataria man was grant­ed bail in the sum of $40,000 with sure­ty, af­ter he ap­peared be­fore a Port of Spain Mag­is­trate this week.
Nicholas Ramesh­war, 31, is charged with three counts of lar­ce­ny against three vic­tims, to­talling $29,500. Mr Ram­se­sh­war of 2nd Av­enue, Barataria, was grant­ed bail and the mat­ter ad­journed to Ju­ly 31st.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the vic­tims re­port­ed to po­lice that be­tween the pe­ri­od Feb­ru­ary 2019 and May 2020, they had each paid a man mon­ey in the form down-pay­ments to­wards the pur­chase of ve­hi­cles.

To­ba­go Po­lice are prob­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the is­land's fifth homi­cide for the year. The in­ci­dent oc­curred at Gru Gru Patch, Prov­i­dence Road on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced the elec­tion date just af­ter 3 pm in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the bor­ders will not be re­opened to al­low na­tion­als out­side the coun­try the chance to re­turn home to vote in the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tions.

The re­cent so­cial un­rest in Port-of-Spain will not be enough to un­seat the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) from gov­ern­ment.

Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis-Scope says the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) is “pumped and ready” for the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing set­ting up free in­ter­net in de­pressed com­mu­ni­ties, or­gan­is­ing more class­room ses­sions on na­tion­al TV and pro­vid­ing de­vices for un­der­priv­i­leged chil­dren in prepa­ra­tion for the new school term.

Four peo­ple ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trate on Fri­day, charged with the mur­der of Care­nage busi­ness­man Koonge­be­har­ry Jais­arie al­so known as Jai.

Fam­i­ly and friends of Joel “Li­on” Ja­cob paid their fi­nal re­spects to him on Friday at the St John’s the Bap­tist Church in San Juan.