Three sus­pects re­port­ed­ly in­volved in the rob­bery of a Ro­man Catholic priest on Sat­ur­day morn­ing were in­ter­cept­ed and ar­rest­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way, Freeport.

A rel­a­tive of con­vict­ed kid­nap­per Ron­nie Alexan­der is deny­ing that he was killed by po­lice be­cause of in­volve­ment in ex­tor­tion.

An 18-year-old woman who was stabbed af­ter an ar­gu­ment with a school­girl in St Joseph iden­ti­fied her at­tack­er while wait­ing for treat­ment at a hos­pi­tal on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

There were re­ports of men be­ing shot in two sep­a­rate un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dents in Mor­vant and Barataria, both of which fall un­der the North East­ern Di­vi­sion.

Amidst the grief of los­ing one of their youngest mem­bers, an Arou­ca fam­i­ly is pray­ing for jus­tice af­ter a tod­dler was burnt to death dur­ing an ar­son at­tack at their home.

Four weeks af­ter the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was de­clared, 97 peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with gang ac­tiv­i­ties.

He was the fifth man to be killed by po­lice with­in two days. Po­lice al­so re­cov­ered an AR-15 ri­fle.

With the coun­try ap­proach­ing the one-month mark of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), there are con­trast­ing views from crim­i­nol­o­gists about its ef­fec­tive­ness in curb­ing crime, so far.

Po­lice said that of­fi­cers of the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol (ERP) were dri­ving on Bound­ary Road, around 1 pm when they no­ticed a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da speed­ing out of a near­by side street.

With six po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings in the past sev­en days, the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) says they are yet to re­ceive any body cam­era footage for any of them.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds has is­sued a third de­ten­tion or­der un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2024, amidst ris­ing threats to pub­lic safe­ty and es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence against prison of­fi­cers.

Af­ter re­ceiv­ing threats from a for­mer girl­friend, a busi­ness­man’s home and three cars were dam­aged in a fire in La Brea on Thurs­day.