A young disc jockey was silenced by a bandit's gun early yesterday in what police say might be a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Tropical Storm Jeanne hammered the Caribbean, killing four people and causing widespread damage and flooding as it hurtled west to pound the Dominican Republic, authorities said Friday.

A policeman is now in custody after a team from the Firearm Interdiction Unit (FIU) seized an arsenal of weapons, including army-issued grenades, from his Valsayn home early yesterday morning.

Tara Batson always wanted to have four children. But never in her wildest dreams did she imagine she would have them all at the same time.

The ravages of Hurricane Ivan have left deep scars across the Caribbean - but despite a lingering sense of shock, the victims are trying to put their lives in order once again.

The assistant director in the Department of Student Placement and Welfare, Mosoma Kgotla has confirmed that a Motswana student on the Caribbean island of Grenada was airlifted to Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) for medical attention. The student, whose name has been withheld, is said to have had a ruptured appendix.

A 43-year-old Trinidadian jockey was charged yesterday with the murder of another Trinidadian jockey at the famous Belmont Park Race Track in Belmont, New York. Michael Lutchman was charged with second degree murder in the death of 31-year-old Dilip Amarsingh.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Jamaican military forces searched on Wednesday for dozens of fishermen feared missing after Hurricane Ivan's strike on the Caribbean island last weekend, officials said.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday some 100 CEPEP workers were likely to go to Grenada shortly to assist the hurricane-ravaged country, noting that Trinidad and Tobago would prefer that rebuilding programmes be implemented rather than have Grenadians migrate to this country.

Jamaica yesterday made a formal appeal for international aid to help its rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan last weekend.