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Veteran soca star Neil "Iwer" George has finally revealed his new stage name. George told a gathering of about 2,000 fans that he would now be known as "The Boss" during his concert appearance at the Soca for Summer show held on Saturday night at the Jean Pierre Complex, Mucurapo, Trinidad.

The foreign-used vehicle market in Trinidad and Tobago seems to be a hot destination for stolen cars from Japan. Japanese investigators are in Trinidad and Tobago following up on leads to stolen Japanese cars. The local authorities are vowing to make the business more secure.

The police have been blocked from taking any further action against soca stars Machel Montano and Derek "Mr Slaughter" Pereira until Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Geoffrey Henderson reviews the case. Slaughter went to the St. Clair Police Station twice to turn himself in, only to be told the officers were not ready.

All charges in connection with alleged rape of a young Guyanese woman by Jagadguru Swami Ram Tripathi Maharaj have been dropped by the State. Assistant DPP Roger Gaspard call the evidence tenuous at best and decided to drop all charges against the first Jagadguru in the last 700 years.

The Abdul Kareem Ibrahiim support committee has printed a newsletter "aimed at educating and sensitizing the public about the plight of the JFK terror plot suspects". On Friday, the newsletter was distributed on the Brian Lara Promenade in Port Of Spain.

Jagadguru Ram Tripathi Maharaj with a worldwide following of thousands has returned to Trinidad to face the charges of rape and molestation made against him by a 22 year old female Guyanese devotee. His wife and five children also made the trip to Trinidad with him.

In a strange twist of events after five years of public inquiries all 28 charges against the eight persons and three companies implicated in the Piarco Airport corruption scandal have been dropped. Four new charges were laid shortly after. This follows guilty pleas by US citizens involved in the scandal that also implicated Trinidad and Tobago nationals.

The extradition case against JFK terror suspect, Abdul Kareem Ibrahim got more interesting with broad support from a Shia group in Trinidad voicing support to the notion that Ibrahim was setup by the FBI. According to Huda, Ibrahim's daughter, he was framed by using Stevie "Toro" Francis.

Machel Montano and Derek Perreira aka Mr. Slaughter are facing charges after allegedly being involved in an altercation which resulted in San Fernando resident Joel White being stabbed with a broken beer bottle on February 28, 2006, Carnival Tuesday. At the time Slaughter stated the allegations was "a lie".

Former Trinidad and Tobago Olympic sprinter Alvin Henry confessed to raping four women and a teenage girl during a four-year period after stalking them in the city's parks, authorities said yesterday.