Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, confirmed to the Sunday Express that his government has engaged the services of Canadian forensic investigator Robert Lindquist.

News Source: Trinidad Express

Just over three years after he sat up front with two senior Cabinet colleagues at the funeral of slain Arnett Gardens don, William "Willie Haggart" Moore, Peter Phillips, the national security minister, yesterday expressed regret over the action and repeated a call he made in the Parliament Wednesday for politicians to shun criminals and drug dealers.

News Source: Jamaica Observer

The State has already begun extradition proceedings for US citizens Ronald Birk, Eduardo Hillman and Raoul Gutierrez, in connection with the Piarco Airport development project fraud case, according to a top-level source.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

WASHINGTON ? The Bush administration has notified a Jamaica-based resort firm that its top officers will be denied entry into the United States because of investments the company made on property confiscated from Americans in Cuba.

News Source: signonsandiego.com

Former government ministers, key financiers of the United National Congress, the political party itself and several other business people conspired together and allegedly formed ghost companies which collected millions of dollars from the Airports Authority for work not done during the construction of the new Piarco Airport Terminal, and the money gained was then allegedly split among themselves.

News Source: Trinidad Express

Jamaica is the first country to have signed an agreement to receive HIV/AIDS drugs and diagnostic tests at the reduced prices negotiated by the Clinton Foundation and paid for by the United Nations-initiated Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Fund said today.

News Source: UN News Centre

Amnesty International has issued an urgent alert to its members after police shot dead Robin 'Country' Anderson on 5 May 2004 in an alleged extrajudicial execution and detained Curtis Greenwood and Jeffrey James, both from Morgan Lane, Spanish Town.

News Source: Amnesty International UK

Police report that 22 persons were killed in separate incidents islandwide last week, the gun being the weapon of choice in 12 incidents.

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ashmeed Baksh's kidnappers were frightened into killing him. They abandoned their quest for a $5 million ransom after realising search teams were closing in on their forest hideout.

News Source: Trinidad Express

Kidnap victim Ashmead Baksh was found dead yesterday, apparently tortured to death. He had been shot twice in the back of the head and chopped about the body.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian