Matthews Lane area leader Donald 'Zekes' Phipps was taken into custody yesterday during a massive joint military/police operation which began in the early hours of the morning in west Kingston.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Alicia Keys will headline the Barbados Jazz Festival in January which also includes veteran saxophonist Gato Barbieri on the lineup, organizers said.

Incomparable is the word best suited to define the presentation of American hip-hop artistes, Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick when they performed at Pier II, Chaguaramas in the Passion of Dance old-school party at the weekend.

A man who paid $9,000 to have his girlfriend smuggled in from Guyana stabbed her to death in Brooklyn yesterday after she tried to break up with him, police said.

Members of the Anti Corruption Investigations Bureau yesterday morning executed a search warrant and seized important documents from the home of Carlos John, former government minister under the United National Congress regime, police sources said.

The tension was electric yesterday even after police intervention quelled violent eruptions in downtown Kingston where five persons were shot and injured.

Two teenagers, ages 16 and 19, were yesterday arrested in connection with robbing former president Sir Ellis Clarke.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Barbados seized two shipments of guns destined for Caribbean police departments that were scheduled to pass through the U.S. Embassy, the U.S. ambassador said Monday.

Wyclef Jean is looking to buy a Caribbean island off the coast of his native Haiti in a bid to turn the war-ravaged republic into a tourist destination.

Sat Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, said yesterday when he spoke about a rasta hairstyle harbouring parasites, he was speaking about any unkempt hairdo, including dreadlocks.