With­in a week, four crim­i­nal mat­ters were dis­missed or dis­charged ow­ing to a lack of pre­pared­ness on the part of po­lice of­fi­cers.

Fif­teen in­di­vid­u­als were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a war­rant ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the South­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day. 

Pop­u­lar mas­quer­ad­er Ken­neth Lewis who was known decades ago as King Go­ril­la or Hawk­eye, died on Sat­ur­day, trapped in a fire that en­gulfed his home. 

Re­gion­al car­ri­er LI­AT 2020 will be ex­pand­ing its ser­vice to the British Vir­gin Is­lands ahead of the busy Christ­mas sea­son.

Is­raeli airstrikes Sat­ur­day killed at least 11 peo­ple and in­jured dozens in cen­tral Beirut, of­fi­cials said, as diplo­mats scram­bled to bro­ker a cease-fire.

One man is dead and two women were in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing this morn­ing as their car was blocked on the high­way and gun­men opened fire on them in San­ta Rosa. 

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says WIGUT’s de­mand for a 24 per cent salary in­crease, with back pay amount­ing to $701 mil­lion, can­not be met, since it will be a huge bur­den on tax­pay­ers.

The num­ber of guns leav­ing US ports bound for the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca has no­tice­ably in­creased over the past sev­en years, ac­cord­ing to a re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty up­date.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) South/Cen­tral Wayne Mys­tar as­sured that the po­lice will be close­ly mon­i­tor­ing do­mes­tic vi­o­lence vic­tims with pro­tec­tion or­ders.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced the im­mi­nent roll­out of a Caribbean-wide gangs data­base and the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Cari­com Ar­rest War­rant Bill, which aims to en­sure no safe har­bours for crim­i­nals any­where in the re­gion.

UNC MP Bar­ry Padarath yes­ter­day called for the Gov­ern­ment to join the Op­po­si­tion to bring the Jay­den Lalchan an­ti-bul­ly­ing law in­to be­ing, plus a law on parental re­spon­si­bil­i­ty re­gard­ing chil­dren who com­mit crimes.

A 34-year-old man from San Fer­nan­do, who is await­ing tri­al for mur­der­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, has been award­ed $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for be­ing beat­en by prison of­fi­cers.