PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - About 200 hundred people attended an anti-crime rally in Trinidad's capital yesterday, with speakers urging the government to reduce unemployment to slow a sharp rise in homicides.

The rest of CARICOM must realise Trinidad and Tobago is the driver for economic growth within the Eastern Caribbean.

World leaders were today urged to wake up to the threat from a collapsing mountain which at any moment could unleash a massive tidal wave on the east coast of North America.

The guns killing us are flooding into Trinidad on hundreds of fishing boats manned by smugglers pretending to be sailors, a Sunday Express investigation has discovered.

Lake Ontario was a lot colder than the waters off his native Barbados, where he did his training, but Peter Gibbs still managed to become the second oldest man to swim across the lake and the first person from the Caribbean Basin.

The police in Montego Bay have stumbled on what they have described as an ingenious car-stealing ring, which they say was being used by gangs to commit other serious crimes in St. James.

While the Jamaat al Muslimeen has collected over $2 million in damages for the State destruction of buildings at its Mucurapo Road complex, the Government is yet to go after the Abu Bakr-led group of radical Islamacists for the $25 million owed to the State for the destruction of Police Headquarters in Port of Spain, which was firebombed during the bloody 1990 uprising.

Drug dealers have killed a 16-year-old Princes Town youth, slicing off two of his fingers and chopping him four times to the back of his head.

A High Court judge yesterday poured scorn on a man who repeatedly raped a nine-year-old relative, sending him to jail for 15 years.

The sale of the Government?s stake in the Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) seems a likely possibility, as the State reconsiders its role in the national telecom carrier.