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Security guard shot, wounded in La Brea supermarket robbery Friday 15 January 2021 One of two bandits shot and wounded an unarmed security guard during a robbery at a Chinese supermarket in La Brea on Wednesday. Up to Thursday afternoon, the 45–year-old victim remained in a stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. The police did not give his name, but said he works with Travtech Security Services Ltd and lives at St Margaret’s Village in Claxton Bay. Police said shortly before 6 pm on Wednesday, two gunmen walked into Welcome supermarket at Majuba Road, La Brea, and announce...

On Saturday, police received intelligence that a ‘strange pirogue’ was off loading items off Thelma Beach, Blanchisseuse. They responded, searched the beach and surrounding areas, and found a black plastic bag hidden between some rocks. In the bag were 22 rectangular blocks containing marijuana, wrapped in plastic. The marijuana, which weighed 12.2 kilogrammes, was seized. No arrests were made in connection with the find. Meanwhile, officers of the Western Division seized 495.5 grammes of marijuana during a police operation in Diego Martin. The drugs were seized in a bushy area off Vande...

A MAN was shot dead at his Diego Martin bar/casino on Tuesday night during a robbery. Police said Lucius John, 35, who lived at Simon Trace, Gopaul Avenue, Diego Martin, was sitting in a back room of the LA Amusement Pub along Diego Martin Main Road around 7.30 p.m. when a gunman attempted to enter. John saw him and alerted everyone in the bar that there was a gunman outside. Everyone ran out but John remained inside. John’s relatives who did not want to be named said his alert on Tuesday night saved the lives of his other relatives.

POLICE shot and killed two young men in Dibe, Long Circular, yesterday, taking the number of people killed by police this year so far to 56. In this latest incident, police said the men fired at them and they fired back. Relatives of one of the men however claimed otherwise. Killed were Jeremiah Ellis, 18, and Shane Moses, 20. Police said around 5 a.m. yesterday officers from the St James Police Station and Western Division Task Force went to Tractor Hill, off Dibe, Long Circular, where they attempted to search a house in the area, but when they got close to the dwelling two men walked out an...

Family of man killed by police confused over circumstances Shane Moses, 21. - Antoinette Ellis, the mother of 18-year-old Jeremiah Ellis – one of two men killed during a police-involved shooting in Long Circular, St James early on Monday morning, said she is confused and heartbroken over the death of her son. Police said members of the Western Division Task Force went to the younger Ellis' Tractor Hill home off Dibe Road to search the house at around 4 am when they were shot at by someone inside. They shot back at the house and saw Ellis and another man identified as 21-year-old Shane Mose...