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Highly regarded and experienced coach, former national goalkeeper Lincoln ‘Tiger’ Phillips, has been appointed Technical Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF). Phillips’ position was among several confirmed by the Executive Committee of the TTFF, following a meeting at its headquarters on Friday evening.

A Curfew was imposed on embattled Spanish Town last night after warring gangs crippled business and normal activity and put the St. Catherine capital under virtual siege. Throughout yesterday the security forces sought to flush out members of the 'One Order' and 'Clans Man' gangs, reportedly responsible for the killing of 12 people and the injuring of 20 others since the start of the year.

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Like Michael Jackson, Buju Banton's latest troubles have received worldwide attention. His arrest three weeks ago for marijuana possession was carried as breaking news by Rolling Stone, MTV, Billboard, Yahoo, ABC News, the BBC, the Scotsman, the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, even the Springfield News Sun in Ohio.

Neil Iwer George has called on his fellow soca artiste Machel Montano to change the name of his band. George said yesterday Montano was "disrupting" the value of the Road March title by calling his group the Road Marching band. Montano said he had no comment, adding, "The only George I know is George Chambers."

A police constable charged with murder and wounding with intent of two party-goers was yesterday shielded from the media by his colleagues, when he appeared at the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Eighth Court.

The police officer accused of the shooting death of Cunupia teenager Kevin Cato and the wounding of another man during a Carnival fete last weekend, appeared in court yesterday and demanded a speedy trial. His attorney, Mario Merritt, told Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls that just as Cato's relatives had called for justice following the shooting, so too should PC Dave Burnett be given justice by a fair hearing and a speedy trial.

When 18-year-old Kevin Cato of Cunupia put on his red clothes on Saturday night to attend the Outrageous in Red fete at Pier 1, Chaguaramas, he would not have known that his own blood would flow at the fete.

AFTER almost a month of verbal wrangling, Jamaican billionaire businessman Michael Lee Chin and St Joseph Member of Parliament Gerald Yetming have buried the hatchet. Lee Chin and his company, AIC Ltd, said yesterday they had considered and accepted Yetming's statement in Parliament on January 16 when he stated he never said Lee Chin or AIC had paid a bribe or committed any other illegal or improper act.

As Carnival begins to heat up, two-time national Panorama champion Phase II Pan Groove may be without its arranger, Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe. The 50-year-old ace pannist was rushed to the St Clair Medical Centre yesterday after suffering from a stomach infection, diarrhoea, dehydration and high blood pressure.

Jamaican business tycoon Michael Lee Chin filed civil lawsuits in Ontario, Canada, and in Jamaica, yesterday, against UNC MP Gerald Yetming. Both Lee Chin and Canadian-based company AIC, of which the billionaire businessman is chairman and majority shareholder, are seeking damages arising from defamatory statements made by Yetming at last Friday’s sitting of Parliament.