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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad has asked Britain and the United States for help in fighting a surging crime wave blamed on the illegal drug trade and an influx of criminal deportees, the prime minister said.

Damian 'Jr. Gong'' Marley made history yesterday when his Ghetto Youths/Tuff Gong/Universal Records release Welcome To Jamrock entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at number seven, selling over 85,000 units and making it the biggest opening week for a reggae artiste in the history of the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart.

Reggae artiste Buju Banton was on Wednesday offered bail in the sum of $50,000 after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault in the night court section of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

Justin Raymond-Guillen,the son of Guardian editor Judy Raymond and Jeffrey Guillen, was kidnapped on Wednesday night. He is 19 years of age. "We are begging whoever is holding him to return him to us unharmed."

The owners of the property on Monos Island where cocaine valued at TT$700 million (US$112 million) was seized on Tuesday have expressed shock over the incident.

The largest drug bust in Trinidad and Tobago valued at TT$700 million (US$112 million) was made less than one mile off the Coast Guard headquarters yesterday.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) -- A bomb exploded on a busy street in Trinidad's capital Wednesday, sending bystanders fleeing, police and a witness said. There were no reported injuries.

A man who participated in a 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad and Tobago was sentenced Thursday to more than 12 years in federal prison for trying to smuggle dozens of high-powered weapons,, federal prosecutors said.

They say that a cat has nine lives, meaning that it survives many a close encounter of the deadly kind. Whether or not deejay Supercat has the proverbial nine lives remains to be seen, but his long-lasting musical life is a phenomenon in Jamaica.

Barbados police are likely to charge three men in connection with the murder of a British tourist, who was gunned down during a robbery in the west coast tourist area of St. James last week.