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While the Jamaat al Muslimeen has collected over $2 million in damages for the State destruction of buildings at its Mucurapo Road complex, the Government is yet to go after the Abu Bakr-led group of radical Islamacists for the $25 million owed to the State for the destruction of Police Headquarters in Port of Spain, which was firebombed during the bloody 1990 uprising.

Things could turn ugly for dancehall star Buju Banton when he turns up in Amsterdam next week for two concerts. Gay rights campaigners are seeking to have him arrested under Dutch law for inciting violence against gays and lesbians.

Drug dealers have killed a 16-year-old Princes Town youth, slicing off two of his fingers and chopping him four times to the back of his head.

A High Court judge yesterday poured scorn on a man who repeatedly raped a nine-year-old relative, sending him to jail for 15 years.

The checkered pasts of a man and his nephew caught up with them yesterday when they were both shot dead by a party of patrolling police officers who reportedly had information that they were about to commit a robbery.

Beenie Man's reported apology to the world hit Jamaica like a scud missile, leaving silent tongues in the deejay community.

After recently defending violence and homophobia in his songs, Beenie Man's U-turn on eve of album release fails to satisfy gay activists.

Four killings in less than 12 hours, extending from Valencia in the east to Cocorite in the west, kept police officers busy over the Emancipation Day holiday yesterday.

Fourteen years after 114 members of the Yasin Abu Bakr-led Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted a violent overthrow of the then NAR Government, this country still doesn't know the identities of those involved in acts of complicity before, during and after the bloody events of July 1990 or even the exact number of people killed in those six days of Muslimeen terror.

Island beats keep the crowd jumping on Lake Shore Blvd. Spectacular parade highlight of two-week Caribbean festival. The mantle of royalty is a heavy one.