Steve Ferguson and Ishwar Galbaransingh were yesterday served with warrants of arrest so that extradition proceedings could begin against the two, who are wanted in the United States where they both face a total of 94 counts of conspiracy to defraud, fraud and money laundering charges, arising out of the Piarco Airport development project.

Two men deported for committing crimes in the United States and Canada went to court in San Fernando yesterday charged with last month's murder of Securicor security guard Manmohan Ramdhan.

“Allah-u-Ackbar! Allah-u-Ackbar!� So shouted followers of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr at the Hall of Justice yesterday as Bakr took his exit from the court.

A British criminologist and Oxford University professor, expressing alarm at T&T's rising murder rate, has called on the Government to institute an urgent, independent investigation into the social and economic reasons for crime, and why the police are not effectively solving murders.

Employees of the Atlantic LNG plant at Point Fortin were evacuated yesterday for the second time in three days when a report of an explosion was made to the Control Room.

Fraud Squad detectives yesterday obtained a warrant to search the Chambers of Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma at the Hall of Justice.

Toronto Carnival aka Caribana 2006 will take place as scheduled this year but under new management, a new name and with the assistance of the National Carnival Bands Association of Trinidad and Tobago.

Police are searching for men who shot an American couple over the weekend. Reports indicate that Christian missionaries Suzanne Prins, 45, and Kevin Prins, 49, were accosted by four masked men, armed with revolvers and a shotgun, outside the gates of their residence at Las Lomas, around 5.15 pm on Sunday.

A United States Grand Jury has handed down indictments for three of the ten defendants who are already before the court for the kidnapping and murder of Balram Maharaj, and one more new accused brought before the court yesterday.

Lawyers for incarcerated former Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday will return before High Court Judge Anthony Carmona this morning to seek to convince him to release their client on bail pending the hearing of Panday's appeal.