Four sol­diers have been con­fined to Camp La Ro­main as en­quiries con­tin­ue in­to the rob­bery of two men at Build­ing 12, Mal­oney Gar­dens, last Mon­day night.

An­gos­tu­ra is en­joy­ing healthy sales this Christ­mas sea­son, thanks to strate­gic price re­duc­tions that have res­onat­ed strong­ly with con­sumers.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Af­ter lead­ing the West In­dies Un­der-19s to se­ries wins over Sri Lan­ka and Eng­land, Joshua Dorne will cap­tain the side at next year’s ICC Crick­et World Cup.

The jun­ta which sup­ports Nico­las Maduro has shown great sol­i­dar­i­ty and re­sis­tance in the face of pres­sure of mil­i­tary might, diplo­mat­ic per­sua­sion, in­duce­ments and eco­nom­ic sanc­tions from the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion. Even a US$50 mil­lion boun­ty on Maduro’s head has yield­ed no at­tempts on his life, no be­tray­als so far, no signs of cracks at the top, nor like­li­hood of a han­dover of Maduro, nor his vol­un­tary sur­ren­der. The es­ca­la­tion to max­i­mum pres­sure by the US, in­clud­ing per­son­al sanc­tions against Maduro, his fam­i­ly and oth­ers close to him, and the seizure of an oil tanker car­ry­ing Venezue­lan crude to cut off rev­enue, is peak­ing to force com­bus­tion in­ter­nal­ly and to crack the will to re­sis­tance of the Venezue­lan pow­er elite.