In conjunction with the Nov. 21 launch of a new cable television network devoted to Caribbean music and culture, MTV Networks will host Caribbean Rising, a series of concerts featuring performances from more than 80 artists across genres such as reggae, dancehall, reggaeton, hip-hop, and calypso.

A muslim living in Britain has been arrested on the Caribbean island of Tobago under suspicion of terrorist offences.

CASTRIES, St Lucia (AP) - Two more slayings have put this small island nation on track to break last year's record number of homicides, officials said Tuesday.

The head of the Jamaica Army, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, yesterday described the Jamaica Labour Party West Kingston enclave of Tivioli Gardens as the "the mother of all garrisons", as he defended Tuesday's joint police military operation in the community, in which police and soldiers said they were in pursuit of men wanted for the killing of three cops earlier in the year.

The U.S. Embassy has warned American citizens to avoid the downtown area of the capital for four days next week following a series of bombings that have all occurred around the same time of the month.

One youth was kidnapped, while another man was shot dead and a woman shot with multiple injuries after a man used her as a human shield.

A major joint operation between the military and police which began at 4 a.m. in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston today, reportedly resulted in the detention of a prominent businessman and an area leader.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad has asked Britain and the United States for help in fighting a surging crime wave blamed on the illegal drug trade and an influx of criminal deportees, the prime minister said.

Justin Raymond-Guillen,the son of Guardian editor Judy Raymond and Jeffrey Guillen, was kidnapped on Wednesday night. He is 19 years of age. "We are begging whoever is holding him to return him to us unharmed."

The owners of the property on Monos Island where cocaine valued at TT$700 million (US$112 million) was seized on Tuesday have expressed shock over the incident.