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(Trinidad Guardian) Criminologist Ian Ramdhanie is urging the country to brace for an increase in crime once the 9 pm to 5 am curfew is relaxed.

This fire engine ended up in the Lamaha Street trench this afternoon as it sought to avoid colliding with a car (at right of photo).

Police say that at about 1230h today Dispatcher Jenella Burke, 25 years, was on duty at the Green Ice Taxi Service at Cross Street and Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, when a man armed with a handgun entered and held her at gunpoint.

PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Trinidad and  Tobago approved a three-month extension of a state of emergency  today after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said it  had averted “a criminal uprising” in the energy-rich country.

Amid an intensive operation to capture drug lord Roger Khan, then Police Commissioner Winston Felix visited the US embassy to request a sweep of his office for listening devices and for help in determining if a house linked to Khan had a concealed basement that might have stolen AK-47s and drugs.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Hurricane Katia intensified over  the open Atlantic today, bulking up to a powerful Category  2 storm, the U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Forces of Libya’s National  Transitional Council have identified the whereabouts of ousted  leader Muammar Gaddafi, an Al Jazeera television correspondent  reported today.

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt swept away  any remaining clouds surrounding his 100m disqualification when  he anchored Jamaica to a world record time of 37.04 seconds to  retain the world 4×100 metres relay title today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Criminologist Ian Ramdhanie is urging the country to brace for an increase in crime once the 9 pm to 5 am curfew is relaxed.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a leaked 2006 diplomatic cable from the US embassy in Port-of-Spain, “the much-maligned blimps and alleged attack helicopters” were described by US officials here as extravagant crime-fighting “toys” of the Patrick Manning administration.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Friday met with the 14-year-old girl who had created a YouTube video hurling offensive remarks towards Persad-Bissessar, in relation to the State of Emergency and curfew restrictions imposed in the country, almost two weeks ago.

(Trinidad Express) The country has recorded its second murder since the declaration of a State of Emergency on August 21, and curfew restrictions imposed in six areas described as crime hotspots.

(Trinidad Express) Business is down in Trinidad and Tobago “across the board” by at least 30 per cent, and some in the restaurant and hospitality sector have suffered a 75 per cent reduction in income since the declaration of the State of Emergency.

Canada was ready and willing to assist Guyana with its investigations into the April 22, 2006 slaying of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh, his siblings and a security guard but government never made a request.

Recent stories of drug traffickers links to senior police officials have been “quite worrying” and the United Kingdom believes that more can be done to tackle the drug trade here and would like to work more closely with local authorities, London’s former top diplomat in Guyana has said.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said yesterday that it was surprised by Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud’s exhortation for GuySuCo to decide quickly on Indian and Chinese proposals to manage the troubled Skeldon factory, saying it has been reliably informed that the matter has not been taken to the board as yet.

Then US Ambassador Roland Bullen cabled Washington on March 13, 2006 on how in his view President Bharrat Jagdeo had taken the election campaign on the low road and had tried to stir up public fear and leverage it into votes.

The first batch of solar panels for powering interior homes under the Hinterland Electrification Project will arrive in November with installation expected to be completed within three months thereafter.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has expressed disappointment at the recent travel bottlenecks faced by Guyanese travellers using Caribbean Airlines (CAL), while saying that the government is still exploring avenues to establish a locally-owned air carrier.

Although the administration has questioned the credibility of leaked US diplomatic cables that accuse it of collusion with criminal elements, including convicted drug lord Roger Khan, but APNU presidential candidate David Granger says “nothing less” than a judicial inquiry would put to rest the mounting allegations.