Former Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain David Nakhid yesterday denied any approach from the Bahrain Football Association (BFA) to spy on his homeland for next month's crucial 2006 World Cup qualifiers between the two countries.

A Trinidadian convicted of two sex crimes and facing seven other charges in the United States, including sodomy, was arrested in New York on Tuesday as part of the United States' Immigration and Customs Enforcement Operation Predator hunt.

Wrexham will be without Dennis Lawrence for at least one game next month as the defender aims to take Trinidad & Tobago to the World Cup for the first time.

Without naming anyone, Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr yesterday spoke of a conspiracy by a "certain political group" to have him arrested and asserted that the recent bombings were racially motivated.

There was panic yesterday at Maracas Beach, when a series of towering waves, many more than 25 feet high, sent seabathers, vendors and lifeguards running for their lives.

Abu Bakr and five other people detained for questioning in a bombing outside a nightclub in the Caribbean island of Trinidad were released on Sunday, police said.

Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, three of his teenage followers and a schoolgirl were still in custody yesterday, waiting to be questioned in relation to the bombing in St James on Friday.

An explosion outside Smokey and Bunty in St. James, Trinidad wounded at least 10 people on Friday, police said.

Trinidad and Tobago national football coach Leo Beenhakker has expressed satisfaction with the "Warriors" performance in their 2-1 triumph over Mexico in their final round CONCACAF World Cup qualifier at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Wednesday night.

Striker Stern John missed a penalty, then made amends by scoring twice as Trinidad and Tobago stunned Mexico 2-1 on Wednesday to earn a two-legged playoff against Bahrain for a place at next year's World Cup.