Hours after Rodney Deosaran was released by kidnappers yesterday morning, Freeport police swooped down on his family mansion to search for arms and ammunition.

While the Yasin Abu Bakr-led group of Muslim extremists, the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, has benefited from the stumblings of the local security forces, US authorities have tied gun-running operations in Florida and drug-related laundered funds in Connecticut back to No.1 Mucurapo Road in Trinidad.

Nineteen Jamaicans were murdered between Thursday night and Friday evening, pushing the island's murder tally to 691 for the year.

A distraught mother today criticised police and carnival organisers after her two-year-old daughter was hit in the eye by a broken bottle.

A two-year-old girl?s eyesight was permanently damaged when she was hit by a broken bottle during a fight at a carnival, a hospital today confirmed.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida was braced for a double impact as Hurricane Charley gained strength and Tropical Storm Bonnie was expected to make landfall on Thursday accompanied by torrential rains and flash floods.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Heavy rain from the fringes of Tropical Storm Charley spread across Jamaica on Wednesday as two tropical cyclones put millions of people on alert from the Caribbean to the Florida Panhandle.

Port of Spain, Trinidad (LifeNews.com) -- The small island country of Trinidad and Tobago has been of great interest to pro-abortion groups in the United States, and pro-life groups are now working to protect women and the unborn in the Caribbean nation.

Barbados government has responded to the pleas of the anti-piracy lobby by doubling all of the sanctions for copyright infringement up to a maximum of $1/2 million or ten years? imprisonment.

Six days after he went missing, police found the decomposed body of a 17-year-old Rio Claro boy in a forested track close to his home on Sunday.