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.

Three men were ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day af­ter po­lice found drugs and oth­er items of "ev­i­den­tiary val­ue" dur­ing search­es in the North­ern Di­vi­sion North.

Po­lice said the an­ti-crime ex­er­cise took place be­tween 5 am and 9 am on Au­gust 9 in the Oropouche and Fyz­abad dis­tricts.

A Point Fortin man and woman were ar­rest­ed on Fri­day af­ter al­leged­ly de­mand­ing $10,000 from a vic­tim and threat­en­ing to burn his ve­hi­cle if he did not pay.