The killing of two people during the current state of emergency bear all the hallmarks of extrajudicial executions, said Piers Bannister, Amnesty International's Jamaican researcher today. The organization is calling upon the authorities to fully and impartially investigate these deaths.

Roman Catholic Archbishop Edward Gilbert has ruled that dreadlocked schoolgirl Kalifa Logan should be allowed to attend St Charles High School in Tunapuna.

Controversial reggae star Buju Banton has had the plug pulled on his appearance in Manchester after two venues refused to allow him to perform.

Minister in the Ministry of National Security, Fitzgerald Hinds, has challenged the principal of St Charles High School, Sr Adrianna Noel, and representatives of the Hindu, Muslim and Jewish faiths to point out where in their religious texts "Dreadlocks are immoral and sinful".

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - Grenada may need as much as $2.2 billion, or four times its annual economic output, to rebuild after Hurricane Ivan slammed the tiny Caribbean island two weeks ago, an official said on Tuesday.

IT has become all too familiar. Two people are dead; gunned down, neighbours say, by the security forces who were in their community to protect them.

Feuding bandleaders Ian ?Strongy? McKenzie and Mike ?Big Mike? Antoine have been advised to settle their affairs out of court and not antagonise matters further.

PORT-AU-PRINCE : More than 600 people have died in massive floods that raged across northern Haiti after Tropical Storm Jeanne hit the Caribbean nation over the weekend, a UN spokesman said on Monday, while 18 people were killed in other Caribbean islands.

BWIA is among a number of airlines worldwide that has paid heavy fines for carrying passengers who travel with false passports or other types of documentation to the US, the UK and Canada, sources say.

In spite of their sometimes strong stance against the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, nearly every political party has, at one time or the other, played games with Yasin Abu Bakr's group of former coup-makers.