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Dutch national, Adriana Kaya Teuben who tried to smuggle TT$1.4 million worth of cocaine in a hidden luggage compartment through the Piarco International Airport was sentenced to nine years in prison yesterday after a nine-member jury found her guilty.

Trinidad and Tobago coach Leo Beenhakker has announced a provisional 24-man squad for this summer's World Cup finals.

Ben Olsen scored the equalizer in the 25th minute off a record-setting assist from Landon Donovan and the United States salvaged a 1-1 draw against Jamaica last night, the final game before U.S. manager Bruce Arena chooses his 23-man World Cup roster.

Canada has deported four Trinidadians, two who this week completed a jail sentence for plotting terrorist attacks and two believed to be their ?close associates.?

Drivers who are suspected of being under the influence of alcohol and refuse to allow a breathalyser test could be jailed, Transport Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday.

The City of Toronto is working with a Mas band group to put on this year's version of Caribana despite the Caribbean Cultural Committee's demands to continue staging the popular summer festival.

The suggestion was made yesterday that billionaire businessman Lawrence Duprey, who chairs CL Financial Holdings Ltd, gave the "gift" of the ?119,183 ($1.2 million) to two daughters of Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday in 1997, for political advantage when Panday was the then prime minister.

Through his conglomerate, CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey gave the daughters of Basdeo Panday a "scholarship" worth ?119,183 ($1.2 million) in 1997. And this is what, he contended, accounted for most of the "new money" entering the London bank account.

"When me start deejay, when me come innah dis business and start deejay, Beenie Man still a swim round innah him father balls. So Beenie Man want go back innah him mother and make him father do wha dem do fi make him and mek him over back, because him mentally disturbed. Beenie Man sick," says King Yellowman.

The police officer who killed a Cunupia teenager at the Carnival Red Fete party two years ago will pay the ultimate penalty for his actions. He was sentenced to death yesterday after a jury found him guilty of murder.