The two young women who were allegedly hit by a car driven by Trinidad and Tobago football star Dwight Yorke are considering legal action, the Express has learnt.

More details emerged in court yesterday about the Jamaat al Muslimeen's close relationship with the PNM-in particular the personal relationships which Imam Yasin Abu Bakr shared with Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Community Development Minister Joan Yuille-Williams.

Jamaica Customs and police yesterday discovered 16 guns, including four assault rifles and three submachine guns, as well as several hundred rounds of ammunition, which were being smuggled into the island with food imports.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) - The prime minister of Barbados has announced plans to make the Caribbean island a republic, replacing the Queen of England as the official head of state with a locally elected president.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Reuters) - Guyana appealed to the international community on Thursday to send food, boats, power generators and water pumps to help thousands of its inhabitants forced from their homes by the worst floods in more than a century.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago - For as long as pastel rum drinks and hedonistic pre-Lenten celebrations have been in fashion, fun-seekers have flocked to this tropical duet of lush islands to sunbathe, sway to calypso and savor the exotic flavors of its multicultural cuisine.

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Struggling carrier Air Jamaica said Wednesday it will trim staff, cut salaries of top executives and discontinue several routes as part of sweeping cost-cutting measures.

Having got back the nearly $9 million the police confiscated from him a month ago, Matthew's Lane "Don" Donald "Zeeks" Phipps had his passport returned temporarily yesterday so he could fly to Guyana on what his lawyer called business "of great importance".

Dutch national Louisa Marja Jeukens, who appeared in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates Court yesterday to answer charges of trafficking 4.6 kilos of heroin, has been denied bail pending tracing through Interpol.

The United States-based cable network MTV and the Reggae distributing label VP records have partnered in an effort to help raise money for hurricane relief in the Caribbean.