Media houses in the US, including CNN and MSNBC are reporting that Abdel Nur aka Uncle Abdul has indeed surrendered to police in Trinidad at the West End Police Station in Diamond Vale, Diego Martin today. Details on the surrender are vague at the moment.

As reported earlier, it is now official that Machel Montano, Kernel Robert, Benjai and Zan have been charged for assault in connection with the beating of Russell Pollonais and Brandis Brown at Zen nightclub in Trinidad recently in addition to assaulting Jenelle Le Chee and Gerard Bowrin and using obscene language.

The two suspects arrested in Trinidad in connection with the plot to blow up JFK Airport made their first appearances in court. Kareem Ibrahim of Canefarm, Arouca, and Abdul Kadir, a Guyanese with American citizenship as well as a former member of its parliament, are among four suspects in the case. The third man Russell DeFreitas was arrested in New York on Friday. One man, Abdel Nur, remains at large and is believed to be in Trinidad.

Kareem Ibrahim and Abdul Kadir were arrested in Trinidad yesterday as Russell DeFreitas was arrested in New York in connection with a plot to destroy JFK airport. A fourth man, Abdel Nur from Guyana, is being sought in Trinidad. Ibrahim is from Trinidad and Kadir is a native of Guyana.

The infamous Soca Warriors of Trinidad and Tobago will not be a part of the Trinidad and Tobago team for the Gold Cup 2007, as the deadline for team registrations have passed without a resolution between the TTFF and the blacklisted players showing solidarity over the TT$5,000 bonus offered for their World Cup performances.

News from Trinidad is that charges are to be laid against four popular entertainers today. The charges include using obscene language and assault causing bodily harm outside a nightclub in Port Of Spain. Come on now, Machel Montano and others are to be charged in connection with the Russell Pollonais beating recently at Zen.

Hindu guru, Swami Ram Tripathi has been arrested and charged for rape and sexual assault on a 22 year old Guyanese woman who visited the guru last Friday where he was staying on the outskirts of San Fernando, with devotees. The woman complained that she was sprayed with a liquid and then assaulted by 85 year old Tripathi.

What is up with all the press Trinidad and Tobago has been receiving recently? If it is not one thing it is the other. We are only into the fifth month of the year, and both Trinidad and Tobago has made international news. First, it was the incident with American pop star, Akon. Second was the uproar over Elton John performing at the Tobago Jazz Festival. Third, as a total disgrace worldwide, a Trinidadian woman in Brooklyn was exposed by New York's Fox News as a scam artiste. Last but not least was the incident with Machel Montano being accused of beating a Zen patron shortly after the Akon incident.

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The prime suspect in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman kidnapping and murder case, Allan "Scanny" Martin turned himself in late yesterday while Lyndon James, the tenth suspect arrested attempting to board a flight to St. Vincent, made his first appearance in court earlier in the day.