The checkered pasts of a man and his nephew caught up with them yesterday when they were both shot dead by a party of patrolling police officers who reportedly had information that they were about to commit a robbery.

Residents of Tawes Pen are irate that they are being discriminated against by the authorities because of the 'revision' of the funeral date of Oliver 'Bubba' Smith, the leader of the notorious 'One Order' gang, to Monday, rather than on a more traditional weekend date.

In yet another address to the nation, one of several in the 19 months of his current administration on the as-yet-unmanageable crime menace plaguing the country, Prime Minister Patrick Manning last week purported to present yet another plan of attack.

The past two weeks in Jamaica have been less bloody than usual as the incidence of murders took a significant nosedive from a weekly figure of 42 murders six weeks ago to 18 last week and 19 a fortnight ago.

The Bahamas is receiving a bad name in the international press with a number of high-profile cases pointing to the alleged use of this country as a place to hide ill-gotten gains or avoid paying taxes to other states.

A man who attempted to pass through a hole in a fence which prevents people from crossing the Western Main Road near the vicinity of the Bayshore Towers, Cocorite was hit by a car on Saturday morning and died at the Port of Spain General yesterday.

Four killings in less than 12 hours, extending from Valencia in the east to Cocorite in the west, kept police officers busy over the Emancipation Day holiday yesterday.

Fourteen years after 114 members of the Yasin Abu Bakr-led Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted a violent overthrow of the then NAR Government, this country still doesn't know the identities of those involved in acts of complicity before, during and after the bloody events of July 1990 or even the exact number of people killed in those six days of Muslimeen terror.

Island beats keep the crowd jumping on Lake Shore Blvd. Spectacular parade highlight of two-week Caribbean festival. The mantle of royalty is a heavy one.

Three policemen have been served with warning notices, as a result of the ongoing investigation into the release of two Barbadian fishermen in February.