The United States yesterday signed a grant agreement with the Jamaican Government to release J$1.1 billion in funds to assist the country's reconstruction efforts, following the passage of Hurricane Ivan in September.

Two people are dead and five family members are critical as a result of a massive landslide which came crashing down in Delaford, Tobago following six hours of heavy rain which battered the island non-stop yesterday.

An autopsy performed on the body of six-year-old Steron Eligon remains inconclusive pending a toxicology report.

Playing with poison is believed to have been the cause of death for a six-year-old boy who was found laying motionless in his bed at the Mahabir Courts, Morvant home of his father.

Globally acclaimed South African musician, Hugh Masakela, headline act at this weekend's San Fernando Jazz Festival arrived Wednesday evening, deposited his luggage at Hilton Trinidad and immediately asked to be taken to meet some local musicians, igniting what would turn out to be an extraordinary late-night jam session at the Belmont home of Mavis John.

Operation Kingfish, the nation's new crime fighting initiative, has apparently netted big, following reports that nine persons have been nabbed and several tonnes of cocaine seized over the past five days.

Missing Bahamian student, Joseph Burrows, 22, was found murdered yesterday off the Winston Jones Highway in Manchester. He had been a biology student at Northern Caribbean University, and hoped to qualify later as a doctor.

One of Jamaica's most wanted drug traffickers has been jailed in the UK for seven-and-a-half years for money laundering offences, Customs and Excise said.

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The 15-member Caribbean Community refused to acknowledge the Haitian interim government, the Trinidad and Tobago Express reported Wednesday.

Trinidad has its own gold coast. It is the shoreline from MovieTowne to Glencoe. The price of real estate along this seafront has just shot up even further with the planned December start of construction of the $88 million ?smart and luxurious condominium residences? known as Torres Del Sol at Paria Avenue, Shorelands.