A search is on for a man ac­cused of beat­ing a 14-year-old girl be­fore set­ting fire to her moth­er’s house in Siparia on Sat­ur­day night.

Five years af­ter two se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers were charged with con­spir­ing to per­vert the course of pub­lic jus­tice, they were ac­quit­ted on Thurs­day.

In a bid to tack­le school dropouts and sup­port strug­gling stu­dents, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen have opened a home­work cen­tre near the Mara­bel­la Train­line, one of the poor­est com­mu­ni­ties in the south city of San Fer­nan­do.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing a man await­ing tri­al for the mur­der of Dana See­ta­hal, SC, have chal­lenged the ex­pla­na­tion giv­en by Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard for his of­fice’s fail­ure to file in­dict­ments al­most five years af­ter he and a group of men were com­mit­ted to stand tri­al for the crime.

As the worst of the hur­ri­cane sea­son ap­proach­es, teams from Palmiste, Debe and Bar­rack­pore took part in a Hur­ri­cane and Flood Dis­as­ter Sim­u­la­tion, or­gan­ised by the Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Re­sponse Team (CERT).

Po­lice are search­ing for a man ac­cused of beat­ing a 14-year-old girl be­fore set­ting fire to her moth­er’s house in Siparia on Sat­ur­day night.

Two teenagers were shot in Fyz­abad ear­ly Sun­day and re­main in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

A masked ban­dit stormed a San Fer­nan­do restau­rant on Sat­ur­day, es­cap­ing with thou­sands in cash, valu­ables, and the own­er’s pick­up truck.

A Cara­po man died af­ter be­ing hit while cross­ing the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way near Aranguez ear­li­er to­day.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has ap­point­ed Su­ru­jdeo Man­ga­roo HBM (Gold) as its new pres­i­dent, fol­low­ing the death of Sen­a­tor De­oroop Teemal on Au­gust 3.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the new gov­ern­ment has made a strong start in its first 100 days in of­fice since the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

A man was killed and an­oth­er in­jured af­ter be­ing hit by a car on the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way near the Mal­oney traf­fic lights late Sat­ur­day.