When the gunman burst into the kitchen of HHMS Nightclub, Leisa Maillard looked straight into his eyes. "You don't have to do this, you know. If you guys want to fight, just fight," the 39-year-old mother of two pleaded. "He has a wife and kids." But the killer pointed his pistol at her: "Shut your blood clot before I kill you," he growled, using a Jamaican insult.

News Source: Toronto Star

The State obtained an order of restraint, yesterday, preventing former Minister Brian Kuei Tung from disposing of any of his assets.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

Four Trinidadians have said US authorities questioned them about their contact with a suspected al-Qaeda operative after he visited T&T in 2001.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

Joel Andem, the leader of the feared Joel Andem gang and the man at the top of the police's most wanted list for the past four years, was yesterday captured during a pre-dawn operation by police and soldiers in Clarksonville, a quiet community deep in St Ann near the border with Clarendon.

News Source: Jamaica Observer

Describing crime as the "one dark cloud" hanging over this country, Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday the Government was moving to purchase helicopters with attack capabilities and high-speed sea vessels, to wage a war against criminals, particularly those involved in the illicit drug trade.

News Source: Trinidad Express

The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in Haiti and Dominican Republic has risen to 1,950 with the discovery of more bodies.

News Source: Al Jazeera

The body of Trinidadian Hemattie Roopdial, who had been missing since Friday, was found bundled in a bag and stashed inside a closet in her Toronto, Canada apartment, on Monday night.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

At least 270 people are now thought to have died in floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

News Source: RTE News

Security around several of this country's leading figures in the Government and the Judiciary has been heightened and officers are on full alert following credible information received by various intelligence units regarding threats from the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen.

News Source: Trinidad Express

Two officers of the Organised Crime and Narcotic Unit travelled to Canada last week in the ongoing probe into the discovery of cocaine in a diplomatic pouch to T&T?s New York mission.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian