While thou­sands of peo­ple ap­ply to be po­lice of­fi­cers, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds says many ap­pli­cants are turned away as they don’t meet the ba­sic re­quire­ments.

A 36-year-old San Juan man, who is sus­pect­ed of “stor­ing” weapons for crim­i­nals, was ar­rest­ed af­ter he was found with an AK-47 and am­mu­ni­tion at his home on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs has an­nounced the re­moval of Reg­u­la­tion 11 from the 2024 Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, ef­fec­tive­ly re­scind­ing the gun amnesty pro­vi­sion it fa­cil­i­tat­ed.

The first prize for the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Com­pe­ti­tion is $1 mil­lion. The new so­ca com­pe­ti­tion will al­so fea­ture a youth com­pe­ti­tion where the win­ner will re­ceive $200,000.

Lo­cal car­ri­er Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) was one of sev­er­al air­lines that ex­pe­ri­enced flight dis­rup­tions af­ter a SpaceX Star­ship broke up in the at­mos­phere ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8 min­utes and 30 sec­onds af­ter launch­ing from Texas on Thurs­day. This was an un­crewed test flight.

It’s been a lit­tle over a month since St Kitts and Nevis na­tion­al Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day took over as head of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and he’s al­ready mak­ing big plans for the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­pli­er.

Near­ly two years af­ter be­com­ing op­er­a­tional, the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor (OPR) is still not ful­ly equipped to fa­cil­i­tate the ease of do­ing busi­ness.

Al­though his mas­tery lay in crick­et, world record hold­er Bri­an Lara had a broad­er mes­sage for the stu­dents of Na­pari­ma Col­lege—one of ded­i­ca­tion, sac­ri­fice, and am­bi­tion.

Dis­ap­point­ment and frus­tra­tion filled the air at King’s Wharf, San Fer­nan­do, on Thurs­day, as fish­er­men and boat own­ers ar­rived at the long-await­ed fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty—on­ly to find it still un­der con­struc­tion.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu’s of­fice says the meet­ing of the full Cab­i­net has be­gun on Fri­day evening. The Cab­i­net is ex­pect­ed to ap­prove the agree­ment on the cease­fire, which could start as soon as Sun­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dents of scam­mers us­ing so­cial me­dia to find vic­tims. In the most re­cent in­ci­dent, a 32-year-old Ch­agua­nas man drove to Barataria, on Thurs­day to meet some­one he met on Face­book to buy pow­er wash­ers.

A 36-year-old San Juan man who is sus­pect­ed of “stor­ing” weapons for crim­i­nals was ar­rest­ed af­ter he was found with an AK-47 and am­mu­ni­tion at his home on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.