Trinidad police are investigating five murders between Saturday and early yesterday morning. Police believe gang warfare in the Laventille, Morvant and Diego Martin areas may now be spreading to the Carenage district.

The hunt for Trinidadian Andre Neverson, who is on the US Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives list may be taking US Marshal investigators back to his homeland of Trinidad where he was reportedly spotted two weeks ago.

CASTRIES, St Lucia (AP) - Thousands of fans are flocking to tiny St Lucia to hear UB40, the Isley Brothers and American idol winner Fantasia Barrino among other stars at the 14th annual jazz festival, an event that has become almost as popular as carnival in the Caribbean.

A Nigerian national said to be the mastermind behind the transhipment of several kilogrammes of cocaine and heroin between the Caribbean, the United States and Europe, was arrested yesterday morning by Narcotics Unit officers.

"Real people have to dead up in the Terrace by Thursday." Members of a John John gang ensured their leaders' word bore fruit when they shot and killed Plaisance Terrace resident Oba Jones on the bustling Independence Square minutes after midday struck yesterday.

Adesh Samaroo is back on his feet again. The young artiste, who was injured two weeks ago after he lost control of his Frontier jeep which smashed into a wall, is said to be out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but still warded at the Community Hospital, Cocorite.

Three armed robbers who shot and injured a supermarket operator while committing a daring early morning robbery in Llandilo, Westmoreland, yesterday were killed when they crossed paths with irate residents and alert policemen.

When Sullivan Walker signed up for Scouting for Talent in 1969 he had no idea that it was the genesis for something much greater.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Caribbean leaders inaugurated a court Saturday that will serve as the highest judicial body for much of the region, a step toward shedding their 170-year-old dependence on Britain's Privy Council that many have resented as a vestige of colonialism.

Drug dealer Calvin Wedderburn faces deportation back to Jamaica once he has served a five-year jail sentence.