The cold war between the two mas men who created the acclaimed carnival band Legends reached a head yesterday, when one of them filed a lawsuit which would send the lucrative company into receivership within two days.

Officers of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad and members of the Homicide Bureau were up to late evening questioning five Muslimeen members in connection with last year?s shooting death of businessman Christopher Aleong.

Scotland Yard was celebrating last night after the conviction of a flamboyant international drugs baron who ran a multi-million-pound crack cocaine empire spanning five countries and supplying every major city in the UK.

A Jamaican teenager, who spoke of her 34-hour ordeal in a Bristol police cell after she was arrested and threatened with deportation, will voluntarily leave the country after finishing her studies.

A 29-year-old man tore a path of destruction across half the Island in a high-speed chase with Police yesterday morning after allegedly seriously assaulting five women.

BRIDGETOWN-The first ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration dealing with the controversial maritime boundary dispute between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago has gone in favour of this country.

HAMILTON, Bermuda (CP) - Justis Smith will have to serve a few months in jail after all for stabbing a woman and fighting with another two years ago in Bermuda.

The mutilated body of Jamaica's best known gay rights activist was found at his home in Kingston yesterday. The island's sole gay advocacy group called it a possible hate crime.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - The death of a teenage beauty pageant queen who was beaten and strangled while fighting three other women was due to a heart condition, an autopsy report said Wednesday.

PORTLAND (AP) -- The man who police say cooked crack cocaine on a Bates College professor's kitchen stove has been sentenced to about 26 years in federal prison.