Renowned iconic cricket comic and vendor Laban ‘Gravy’ Benjamin, who was shot by bandits outside his home Thursday night, said the three attackers also beat him as they tried to grab his personal belongings.

Cricket entertainer Laban “Gravy” Benjamin who was shot Thursday night, is conscious and alert after undergoing surgery.

Benjamin was shot in the left side of his chest, close to the shoulder.

Member of Parliament for St Phillip’s South Willmoth Daniel has put to bed doubts he will contest the impending general election and has warned challengers it will be “difficult” to “unseat” him.

“We want to thank everyone, all the people who participated in the search and rescue, all the people who were praying for us.”

Distraught relatives of two brothers shot by police deny officers’ claims the pair were involved in criminal activity when the shootout occurred early yesterday morning.

A 17-year-old youth accused of plunging scissors into a schoolmate’s side, damaging his liver during a fight on a bus, has been remanded to prison.

The sole survivor of Sunday’s horrific plane crash, which killed three people including the pilot, is on the road to recovery following surgery.

There’s been at least one sign of improvement in the condition of shot bus driver Erie Allen who, for the first time since Monday night’s incident, briefly opened his eyes yesterday afternoon.

Weeks after returning from a third operation in Barbados to remove eye cataracts, 11-month-old Marlon Williams Jnr is facing yet another surgical procedure to correct a left ectopic kidney.

Twenty-two-year old Chessere James is reportedly well on the road to recovery from the stab wound to his left chest that led to his being warded in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Mount St John’s Medical Centre on Sunday.