
LOCAL law enforcement officers are on the lookout for a modern firearm which resembles a cellular phone.
The firearm, called the mobile phone gun, is able to fire four .22 calibre rounds and is triggered by pressing the key pad.
Assistant police commissioner in charge of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, Les Green, said local cops had been informed about the new weapon by the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
"The circulation came from the FBI. Those reports come out on a regular basis," Green told the Observer yesterday.
The mobile phone gun has not yet surfaced on local soil but investigators say they are taking no chances.
"We have not seen any yet but technology moves on so quickly," Green said.
Senior Superintendent Elbert Nelson of the National Intelligence Bureau said while the police are aware of the new weapon, officers on the beat need to make themselves familiar with what to look out for.
"We have been made aware of this new mobile phone gun but not enough is known about it," Nelson said.
The police have since put Customs officials on the alert.
"We have been advising our stakeholders at our ports of entry to look out for them," Nelson said.
However, head of customs, Danville Walker said he was not aware of the existence of the weapon. "I have no knowledge of that," Walker told the Observer.
The US Department of Homeland security, Interpol, the FBI, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the US Customs Service are all aware of the new gun and have sent warnings to law enforcement agencies worldwide to look out for the weapon.
European airport authorities have already implemented systems to x-ray all cellular phones and the technology is expected to be put in place worldwide.
The new gun can be identified by its extra weight and is loaded by twisting the phone in half. The .22-calibre rounds fit into the top of the phone under the screen. The lower half, under the keyboard, holds the firing pins. The bullets fire through the antenna by pressing the keypad, and it comes complete with a firing pin and c**king lever.
The new guns are suspected to have been made in Yugoslavia and were first discovered in Holland when Dutch police stumbled on a large cache.










New York, NY - "Pop-Dancehall" artist Serani is gearing up for the release of his first U.S. full-length album titled No Games. The album comes on the wave of the huge success of his international hit single "No Games." The record has enjoyed incredible momentum with multi-formats radio play that includes Urban AC, Urban, Rhythmic and Top 40 and over 30,000 spins! The video for "No Games" is on rotation on BET, BET J, MTV Jams, MTV U, MTV2, VH1 "Island Soul" and Music Choice "Hit List" on demand, where it picked with 30,000 views a week during May/July 2009.






chris1 said on October 2, 2009 at 
Hundreds of revelers, some still dressed in their West Indian-American Carnival gear, crammed into the Caribbean City Night Club on Labor Day to hail the 'Five Star General' on his long-awaited return to the Big Apple's Caribbean core--Brooklyn. After a stellar performance at Manhattan's famous Roseland Ballroom, iconic Dancehall deejay (MC) Bounty Killer stormed into Brooklyn dressed in his signature 'full suit of black' and armed with an arsenal of tunes from his 17-year catalogue of hit singles. Delivering one of his best performances to date, the 'Warlord' officially locked down the borough, bringing the Labor Day weekend festivities to a powerful close.


