Police are now offering a $10,000 reward for any information which leads to the whereabouts of the Cooper twins.

The money pledge came after yet another day of scant progress in the investigation, which now involves close to 50 Police officers.

Reward posters are being distributed Island-wide in the hope of tempting somebody to come forward.

Jahmal and Jahmil Cooper were last seen at a house on Crown Hill Lane in Devonshire on Sunday March 13 ? in the area of Dock Hill and Palmetto Road ? and were suffering from very serious injuries.

A source close to the investigation has told that the twins were lured to the house on Crown Hill Lane by a number of individuals, before being tortured and repeatedly beaten with baseball bats.

The theft of a large amount of money from an underground gambling den is the reason behind the violent abductions, the source said, while also revealing that investigators suspect that the twins have already been killed and their bodies dumped in the ocean.

Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith admitted on Monday that the chances of finding the twins alive are rapidly diminishing, although he pledged the investigation would continue until every avenue of enquiry is exhausted.

Two men, Kenneth Jermaine Burgess and Dennis Alma Robinson, have already been charged in connection with the assault, while two more men are in Police custody in relation to the arson attack at the Crown Hill Lane crime scene last Thursday.

Anybody with any information is asked to contact Police on 295-0011 or the Crimestoppers hotline on 1-800-623-8477.