PORT ROYAL, Jamaica -- Jamaicans have long suspected the waters off their southern coast are teeming with shipwrecks and sunken treasure from the days when the island was a haven for pirates. But they have always been happy to leave the mystery to the sea.

News Source: Napa News

Ashmead Baksh, youngest son of United National Congress (UNC) Member Parliament for Naparima, Nizam Baksh, is the country?s latest kidnap victim.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

Human rights groups - and a UN special rapporteur - have accused some Jamaican police officers of carrying out extra-judicial executions. Six members of a controversial police team face a trial over the alleged murder of four civilians.

News Source: BBC News Online

Youth crime, violence, drug abuse and delinquency are increasing and regional police departments are trying to find ways to curb lawlessness among young people.

News Source: Trinidad Express

An increasing number of young girls are being charged with drug offences and authorities are concerned about the trend.

News Source: Nation News

A Portmore businessman yesterday became the third person kidnapped in less than a week.

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Two employees of the Foreign Affairs Ministry were questioned by police yesterday as investigations continue into the seizure of cocaine in diplomatic pouches.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

Afraid to tell her parents about a year of repeated gang rapes by a group of five men living in a downstairs apartment, a 15-year-old schoolgirl told her teacher of her ordeal last Friday.

News Source: Trinidad Express

The wife of leading Princes Town businessman ?Uncle? Khalid Mohammed was killed on Monday night, after returning home from a family dinner in La Romain.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

BRUCE English spent yesterday close to his telephones waiting to be contacted again by the kidnappers. Monday night they had demanded $6 million for the release of his wife, Christine, 55.

News Source: Jamaica Observer