Inundated with telephone calls, text messages and faxes hailing his achievement of becoming Test cricket's leading scorer, Brian Lara spoke passionately yesterday about the influences on his cricket career, about his country, his family and his football friends, about his love of and hopes for West Indies cricket, about the impact he hopes his latest record will have on the people of the Caribbean.

Heavily armed police and army officers swooped down on several illegally operated quarries in the Valencia and Wallerfield area yesterday arresting 12 men and impounding several pieces of heavy equipment used in the trade.

Former coup leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr was yesterday slapped with a terrorism charge that could put him behind bars for 25 years if convicted.

The soccer-mad Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago came to a euphoric standstill yesterday as an official public holiday was declared to celebrate the national football team's qualification for the World Cup finals.

Trinidad & Tobago plan to do much more than make up the numbers on their World Cup debut in Germany next year, according to captain Dwight Yorke.

Trinidad and Tobago will appear in their first ever World Cup finals after staging a remarkable comeback to beat Bahrain 1-0.

While some people believe in the garbage that Trini Carnival should be for Trini artists only, and Bajan Crop Over for Bajan artists only, etc. - Vincy has got different plans.

Popular soca artist Bunji Garlin declares he will not sing bad man lyrics anymore after a reckless incident that shocked the country of Trinidad and Tobago.

It was not the result they wanted. But midfielder Chris Birchall's equaliser against Bahrain still kept Trinidad and Tobago's Germany World Cup 2006 hopes alive yesterday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain.

Police and army are now demolishing the offices of the Muslimeen leader Abu Bakr, at Mucurapo Road.