Hurricane Ivan, packing winds of up to 185 km an hour an hour, hammered Tobago yesterday afternoon, leaving a stream of devastation in its wake.

The latest hurricane to threaten the Caribbean has shifted course and is veering towards Trinidad and Tobago, says the US National Hurricane Center.

PORT OF SPAIN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago coach Bertille St Clair says his team are not afraid of Mexico, their opponents in Wednesday's World Cup qualifier.

A $2 million investment in a project linked to the brother of a Government Minister, off-the-floor share sales and breaches of legislation are some of the alleged incidents at FNCU-Venture Capital Company which are now under the microscope of the Venture Capital Incentive Programme (VCIP) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).

A relationship has developed between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, himself a former coup-leader, and Jamaat al Muslimeen leader and 1990 insurrectionist Yasin Abu Bakr.

The image of an exploding BWIA passenger aircraft has turned up on a website linked to the Al Qaeda terror group. The Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star is shown with its fuselage and wing on fire, next to figures of hooded women and the landing gear of a crashed plane.

Former National striker Dwight Yorke signed a one-year deal with Birmingham City for ?250,000 on Tuesday.

The Inland Revenue Division of the Ministry of Finance has embarked on a campaign to nab several T&T drug lords who have been raking in millions over the years while hiding behind legitimate companies as law-abiding businessmen.

Former President Arthur NR Robinson said yesterday that Trinidad and Tobago was facing a leadership failure.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning has said crime was one of T&T?s major causes of concern. In his Independence Day address to the nation yesterday, Manning said of all the changes which the country had undergone over the last 42 years, the recent upsurge in violent criminal activity was the most unwelcome.