Po­lice have ar­rest­ed four men from San Juan who are sus­pect­ed of be­ing in­volved in a dar­ing armed rob­bery at a su­per­mar­ket lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of William Street and Lopinot Road in Arou­ca, on Thurs­day.

Yas­min Eid coughs and cov­ers her face, cook­ing a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap pa­per in the tent she shares with her hus­band and four young daugh­ters in the Gaza Strip.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced that a Caribbean-wide gangs data­base will soon be im­ple­ment­ed, along with the Cari­com Ar­rest War­rant Bill aimed at en­sur­ing there are no safe har­bours for crim­i­nals in any part of the re­gion. 

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher is re­view­ing a pre­lim­i­nary re­port on the dis­missal of cor­rup­tion charges against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers, vow­ing swift ac­tion as pub­lic out­cry mounts over what many have de­scribed as a sys­temic fail­ure in law en­force­ment and the jus­tice sys­tem.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus faces a com­plete shut­down to­day as the West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) in­ten­si­fies its protest.

For­mer CL Fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive An­dre Mon­teil has lost his fi­nal ap­peal be­fore the Privy Coun­cil over a dis­put­ed in­come tax as­sess­ment ex­ceed­ing $20 mil­lion.

Hours af­ter he was jolt­ed out of his sleep by in­trud­ers in his home, beat­en, robbed and kid­napped, 69-year-old Win­ston Thomas was found dead in his car along the busy Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way.

A stock­yard own­er was kid­napped in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, min­utes af­ter he ar­rived to de­liv­er a load of sand for a cus­tomer.

Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe says an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has found there is no truth to the claim that Han­nah Mathu­ra’s moth­er, Alana Mathu­ra, was raped while in­car­cer­at­ed.

Two days af­ter the body of a miss­ing Cou­va man was found in the Ca­roni Riv­er, an­oth­er grue­some dis­cov­ery has been made.

Chloe Ram­nar­ine, a Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies stu­dent, has re­ceived 49 per cent of the funds need­ed for a life-sav­ing bone mar­row surgery in Colom­bia.

One cou­ple is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to amend its poli­cies when it comes to the death and dis­pos­al of pre­ma­ture ba­bies.