Trinidad's government has retaken control of struggling airline BWIA, but the country's trade minister on Wednesday said the arrangement was only temporary.

Government has stepped up vigilance at sea ports, increased surveillance at airports, and is now targeting money-laundering and white-collar crime in its war on crime.

Hassan Anyabwile, one-time second-in-command at the Jamaat al Muslimeen, is seeking asylum in Britain and has challenged the authorities? decision to deny him residency, London sources have disclosed.

Three Maracas Bay friends all under the age of 30 were killed instantly when a car they were test driving following repairs to it slammed into a PTSC bus along the North Coast Road yesterday afternoon.

The calypso fraternity has been plunged into mourning with the passing of Carlyle ?Jazzy? Pantin, owner and manager of the Calypso Revue tent.

Nine sophisticated guns, a hand grenade, ten blocks of cocaine and more than 300 rounds of assorted ammunition were seized by police who raided a house in Rousillac, south Trinidad, late Wednesday.

Noel Lochan smiled shyly with happiness as Health Minister John Rahael visited him at the San Fernando General Hospital yesterday and promised to give him a job in the health sector.

A lockout of workers at a Caribbean brewery has been temporarily resolved. An agreement to end the lockout at one of the regions breweries was reached yesterday.

There is a plan to establish Muslim villages in Trinidad and Tobago.

HIV-positive couple Preston Davis, 33, and Jonniebelle Welch, 43, sealed their love in marriage at the weekend.