An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter Scale rattled Trinidad yesterday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Robert S Mueller III is expected to be in Trinidad today to hold discussions with top security and Government officials.

A Trinidadian convicted of two sex crimes and facing seven other charges in the United States, including sodomy, was arrested in New York on Tuesday as part of the United States' Immigration and Customs Enforcement Operation Predator hunt.

Flood waters from Tropical Storm Wilma yesterday forced more than 100 people into shelters in the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew and St Catherine as heavy rain soaked most parishes.

Without naming anyone, Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr yesterday spoke of a conspiracy by a "certain political group" to have him arrested and asserted that the recent bombings were racially motivated.

There was panic yesterday at Maracas Beach, when a series of towering waves, many more than 25 feet high, sent seabathers, vendors and lifeguards running for their lives.

Abu Bakr and five other people detained for questioning in a bombing outside a nightclub in the Caribbean island of Trinidad were released on Sunday, police said.

Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, three of his teenage followers and a schoolgirl were still in custody yesterday, waiting to be questioned in relation to the bombing in St James on Friday.

An explosion outside Smokey and Bunty in St. James, Trinidad wounded at least 10 people on Friday, police said.

Struggling regional airline LIAT relaunched itself as a discount carrier Tuesday in a bid to keep flying amid soaring operational costs and increased competition.