Police and the parents of two teenage girls were desperately searching for the young women up to yesterday evening, after they disappeared soon after sitting CXC examinations on Monday.

A Trinidadian teenager who left here to seek a better life in the United States was killed on Sunday, in what police now say was a dispute over a pillow.

ST. GEORGE'S, Jun 15 (IPS) - An allegation by a Miami-based online newsletter against Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell is snowballing into accusations of curbs on press freedom, resignations and the possibility of a number of libel suits.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- A labor dispute at one of the Caribbean's largest breweries has caused a shortage of a beloved beer, leaving bar owners struggling to satisfy customers thirsting for a Stag.

The 19-year-old son of a restaurant proprietor who was one of two persons charged in March with conspiracy to import cocaine in the United Kingdom, has been released from prison and sent back to Trinidad.

Individuals seeking access to the Potters Cay Dock may or may not be stopped to show an official photo identification to gain entry, as some workers were not clear on the new procedures on the weekend.

CASTRIES, St Lucia (AP) - Three men were arrested yesterday and charged with robbing an armured truck in St Lucia's largest-ever cash heist, police said.

A drugs baron known as "Father Fowl" who has earned hundreds of millions of pounds smuggling crack cocaine into Britain.

A West Coast Berbice shop owner was shot in the eye and his wife severely beaten by bandits who got away with over $1M in cash and jewellery.

Jamaican security forces are nervously bracing for a mass deportation of Jamaicans from Britain and the United States, including some members of the feared 'Yardie' and 'Posse' gangs who were convicted for crimes such as murder, shooting, rape, illegal drug and firearm offences and larceny.