Speaks with a Jamaican accent

The victim, a 17-year old girl was in her car in the area of SW 161st Terrace and 145th Avenue when the suspect drove past her car and stopped directly in front of her.
Police say he got out, walked to her car, forced her out of her car and into his vehicle, where the assault took place.
"She was able to obtain a very good description of the subject and the vehicle that we can use and we can ask the community to help us in hopes of solving this case," Detective Juan Villalba of Miami-Dade Police told CBS4's Gary Nelson.
Police have released a composite sketch of the suspect. He's between 30 to 35 years old. He's described as being about 5 feet 8 inches tall, between 185 -190 lbs. He has brown eyes, long, black dreadlocks with a black headband; muscular build; and speaks with a Jamaican accent.
Police also describe his vehicle as an older model, 4 door Toyota Corolla, dark green in color, with dark tinted windows. It is missing the wheel cover from the rear driver's side, tire, and has a large Jamaican flag with "Jamaica" printed at the bottom hanging from the rear view mirror.
People in the neighborhood said they are unaccustomed to robberies in their homes.
"Is outrageous, people are just getting worse and worse everyday," said Odalys Madina, who lives in the neighborhood. "Crimes are becoming heinous and people are very callous to what they are doing."

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Kenneth Robinson

Kenneth Robinson, 54, of 163-11 Foch Blvd. in Jamaica, was previously convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced by Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter to 25 years to life in prison, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said

In March 2004, Robinson voluntarily allowed forensic experts to take a swab of his saliva for a DNA sample when he was being questioned by police on an unrelated matter, the DA said.
According to trial testimony, Robinson went to the apartment of his grandmother, Pauline Henninghan, at 14-01 36th Ave. in Astoria sometime between 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 4, 1989, and 9:15 a.m. the next day, and manually strangled her, the DA said. Henninghan's body was later discovered in the hallway of the apartment with an electrical cord tied around her neck and fastened to a doorknob, blood on her clothes, and marks and abrasions on her scalp and nose, Brown said.
When NYPD Crime Scene Unit officers arrived at Henninghan's apartment, they placed paper bags over her hands and taped them closed before taking her body to the morgue, the DA said. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner kept fingernail clippings taken from both Henninghan's hands during the autopsy, the DA said.
When Robinson gave the saliva sample, the Chief Medical Examiner's Office analyzed human cells recovered from under his grandmother's fingernails in 1989, and found that the DNA in those cells matched that in the sample from Robinson, Brown said. Robinson was further linked to the crime by a photo taken Nov. 5, 1989, during an interview with police about his grandmother's murder, and admitted as evidence at trial, showed him with a scratch mark on his neck, the DA said.

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Every Jamaican resident in Jamaica to be registered

"It will require every Jamaican resident in Jamaica to be registered, to have a unique number assigned to him or her from the date of birth, and a number around which will be built the identification data," he explained.
The move, he said, will "ensure that this country becomes more manageable.more governable, and that the security of the country can be better ensured."
The national identification system is among a raft of crime reduction measures, which came out of five-day Cabinet retreat held from January 17 to 21.
"There are a number of issues that are going to be tackled very vigorously this year," the Prime Minister told journalists, noting that focus will be placed on the management of the police force, and its effectiveness and accountability.
He informed that certain legislative changes are being prepared to give support to that objective and "it is going to involve conferring greater authority on the Commissioner of Police and holding (him) more accountable for the exercise of that authority."
The Cabinet retreat, the Prime Minister said, also addressed the "critical importance of addressing urgent resource needs within the police force and we are going to have to prioritize again. those (resources) that we feel can have the greatest impact on (the) reduction in crime."
In the meantime, the Prime Minister said that Cabinet has signed off on a "multi-faceted and integrated approach" to crime fighting, which will seek to facilitate the integration of policing efforts with social intervention measures, and involve the relevant Government agencies with responsibility for critical services.
According to the Prime Minister, "we have learnt by now that simply going into communities with a show of force, in search of criminals or people suspected to be involved in criminal activity, that by itself has never produced, and is not likely to produce any sustained reduction in crime," citing social and economic conditions as factors "causing so many of our young people, especially our young males, to be conscripted into criminal activity".
"We have to be talking about transforming the community while enforcing the law," Mr. Golding stated.
To that extent, the Prime Minister advised that a new programme is being developed, which will integrate some past initiatives with new ones, adding that an announcement to this effect will be made in due course.
"We have a coordinating committee that has started to meet already. It is going to involve interfacing with non-governmental organizations, with community-based organizations, (and) with the private sector. It is going to require a holistic approach if any of the elements of those initiatives is to be effected," Mr. Golding said.

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Darwin man arrested for having Heroin

Bali police deputy spokeswoman Sri Harmiti said the 46-year-old would likely be charged with drug possession, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and a substantial fine.
About 0.4 of a gram of heroin was allegedly found inside his motorcycle helmet when he was arrested in Kuta a week ago.
"He was arrested while he was driving a rental motorbike," Ms Harmiti said.
She said the man had admitted buying the drugs from a woman.
Ms Harmiti said the man, identified only by his initials FBM, said he'd been a regular user of heroin.
"He said that as a fisherman he needed to consume heroin to increase his stamina and self-confidence," she said.
Several Australians caught with drugs in Bali have used the defence that they were addicts in order to escape with more lenient jail terms.
Ms Harmiti said the man had been on a two-week holiday to Bali, his first to the resort island.
His arrest comes just weeks after a Perth man was arrested on the island, allegedly for hashish possession. He's yet to face court.

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Jacqueline Tennant

Jacqueline Tennant sister, the British woman missing in Majorca since October 8, is back on the island leading another search of the Victoria Mountain in Alcudia
Monique Tennant, along with members of the Guardia Civil, the Civil Proteccion and local British volunteers, including those with hiking experience, is spending today and tomorrow searching four possible routes she believes her sister may have taken when she went missing while hiking on the mountain last October.
The team of 10 or 12 members was due to begin searching at 10am.
This latest search of the area where Monique was last seen is based on information provided by two British tourists who contacted the BBC after seeing an item on television about her disappearance.
The couple said they had seen a black woman walking up the mountain while they were coming down it on the day that Jacqueline went missing.
Monique Tennant has been aided in her efforts to find her sister by her local MP, Andrew Pelling.
The Croydon MP has briefed the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is on the case.
Jacqueline Tennant (45), a keen hiking enthusiast, went missing just days before she was due to return home to the UK.
She had spent the summer working as a swimming instructor for the First Choice Holidays company in Alcudia.
A trip the two sisters were planning to see their father, Everard, in Jamaica had to be cancelled when Jacqueline went missing. Sadly, Everard died in Jamaica on New Year’s Eve.
Monique is also hoping that information contained in Jacqueline’s email account may provide further information about her sister’s movements on the day she went missing.
Microsoft has released the information to the courts here but, as yet, Monique has not been able to see it, and is looking at obtaining legal authorisation in order to do so.
This is the latest of several trips Monique has made to Majorca in search of her sister. This latest trip coincides with the funeral of her father but she is determined to carry on looking until

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Two British men were arrested in Tenerife

Two British men were arrested in Tenerife this weekend, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 25 year old Moroccan man who died after a brawl in the Américas Shopping Centre in the Playa de Las Américas resort on the South of the island. It happened in the early hours of Saturday and was reported by a security guard.
The victim was still alive when emergency services arrived on the scene and was admitted to hospital in a critical condition. Doctors at the Hospital Sur pronounced him dead shortly afterwards.
It’s understood the two suspects were arrested some hours later and were taken to the National Police station for questioning.

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Irish suspects from Dublin

Police believe a British broker offered them money to intimidate a Norwegian man into dropping legal action, and were asked to kill him if they failed
There has been news of a number of arrests on Gran Canaria in police investigations into extortion and fraud which allegedly involve a British investment broker who lives on the island. The Irish Independent said two Irish suspects, who have now been released on bail with charges, were said to have been offered 28,000 € by the broker to get a Norwegian man to drop legal action taken out against him in relation to a 200,000 € investment. They were said to have been asked to kill the Norwegian and his partner if they failed in making him withdraw the charges.
The only information on the Irish suspects is that the contact was made some months ago, and they may be from Dublin. The charges against the two are attempted perversion of the course of justice and intimidation.
They were arrested along with another man from Ireland on Tuesday last week at a meeting in a bar with the Norwegian and his lawyer, the paper said. The third suspect was released without charges.

It’s understood the British man was arrested on board a plane which was about to take off from the airport, and has appeared in court for extortion and conspiracy to murder.

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Daniel Hastelow

The two British men arrested for the murder of a countryman in the Mallorca resort of Magaluf on Sunday appeared in court on Tuesday and have been remanded to custody by the judge. It’s understood they are both from Merseyside, and they’ve been named by the Liverpool Daily Post as Richard Roberts, aged 35, and Anthony Griffiths, 22. The paper gives the victim’s name as Daniel Hastelow.
The Diario de Mallorca reports this morning that the suspects could face a possible 20 years in prison for breaking and entering and murder. They are to be tried by jury.
26 year old Daniel Hastelow was stabbed as he was sleeping in his apartment in Magaluf in the early hours of Sunday. The Mallorca newspaper reports that Mr Roberts declined to declare in court on Tuesday, but admitted to the Civil Guard on Monday that it was he who stabbed Mr Hastelow who, according to the UK newspaper, was stabbed three times as he lay sleeping after a night out to celebrate his 26th birthday. They said he suffered wounds to his liver and a lung.
Mr Roberts reportedly told the Civil Guard that he had had a number of arguments with the victim in the past, and had been threatened by him on each occasion. He said Mr Griffiths had no part in the crime, who himself said the two were in the apartment looking for another man who lived there and they thought Mr Hastelow would still be out. He said neither of them went there with the intention of killing him.
The two suspects were arrested at Palma Airport as they were trying to buy tickets to the UK.

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Corey Worthington for Big Brother contract

Police have taken Melbourne's party boy and global media star Corey Worthington into custody.
A police spokeswoman said the 16-year-old had been taken to the Narre Warren police station in relation to the wild party at his parents house on Saturday night.
The latest development comes after Corey fled the studios of an FM radio station this morning during a sometimes hostile interview on live radio.
The 16-year-old from Narre Warren bolted out of the studio and fled down a fire escape after Fox FM's radio host Matt Tilley tried to remove his plastic yellow sunglasses, which he had kept on throughout the interview.
He was chased by several news camera operators and an anxious radio producer but disappeared.
Corey later returned to the studio and completed the on-air interview.
Before making his escape, Corey was asked if he had anything to say to his parents who might be listening.
"Sorry," he said.
Asked if he was planning to return to home, he said: "To get my clothes and stuff".
Asked if he ever wanted to go home again, he said: "I do sort of, but don't know right now".
Corey also said he had been approached by DJ Lako to run an underage club in Melbourne.
The hosts asked Corey if he was merely a brat who couldn't handle the truth, to which he replied, "Nuh".
Listeners who called the studio to speak with Corey were overwhelmingly hostile, with one woman telling him he had no respect for anyone else and a man calling him a "knob" and warning him to "watch out".
Corey, dressed in a white cap, fluoro yellow T-shirt and white high-top sneakers, appeared tense while being interviewed.
The teenager threw a house party on Saturday night while his parents were interstate, at which 500 teenagers spilled on to the streets, damaging property and throwing projectiles at police cars.
The out-of-control party and its aftermath have attracted media attention worldwide and drawn speculation that the teenager could earn big money by appearing on TV and promoting parties.
Victoria Police has also threatened to bill the boy's family $20,000 in damages.
The story was among the most-read on the BBC's news website last night. It was more popular than a report on the Taliban attacking a Kabul hotel.
Corey's farcical interview with Channel Nine's A Current Affair on Monday, during which he comprehensively steam-rolled host Leila McKinnon (wife of Channel Nine chief David Gyngell), was uploaded to the YouTube website yesterday afternoon, further expanding his notoriety.
Within minutes of going online, McKinnon's tabloid TV tut-tutting had backfired, transforming Corey, who was interviewed shirtless with his pierced nipple on show, from naughty schoolboy to international hero.
The boy's neighbours and Victorian Police would not have been amused, and nor would his mother and stepfather, Jo and Steve Delaney, who were on the Channel Seven show Today Tonight expressing their shame over his antics and their concern over the potential $20,000 fine.
Pursed-lipped McKinnon, clearly frustrated when Corey refused her repeated requests to remove his huge sunglasses and offer an apology on the show, went in for the kill, adopting a school ma'am tone to suggest the boy: "Go away and take a good long hard look at yourself."
But before she could cut the link, the boy shot back: "I have, everyone has and they love it."
In a rare moment of restraint, celebrity agents contacted by the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday said they would not be approaching the teenager with any lucrative contracts, despite his new found notoriety.
A spokeswoman from Harry M Miller's office, which already handles the dubious "talent" from the Big Brother reality TV series, said they were not interested in the teenager.
However, by last night rival agent Max Markson had changed his mind and admitted the boy's story was marketable, worth between $30,000 and $40,000 now it had gone international, but that he would only represent him "if they contact me".

AAP reported that the teenager was relaxing on the beach with girls yesterday, refusing to answer calls from his parents.

"I am not going home if they are going to go all crazy on me," he told the Nine Network. "It was pretty funny and I would do it all again. I have always had a bit of an attitude towards older [people] like my parents. That's just me. I would rather stay young and have fun and am not gonna change for anyone really."

Corey's parents returned to a home they say was disgusting.

"We've got our home back to some semblance of order," Mr Delaney told Channel Seven.

"There's been no respect, no regard. You can't chain them down.

"His arrogance that he's demonstrated is blase and obviously been hyped up because he's got all his mates onside egging him on … He just has to stop what he's doing, just stop it."

They said they did not know where he was.

"Obviously, we're keen to get him back home," Mrs Delaney said. "We need to work this through with him and the police. We need to sort everything out."

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Ian Pieter van Wieringen

Ian Pieter van Wieringen appeared in Gianyar District Court today charged with possession of hashish. Mr. van Wieringen is a painter who has lived in Ubud for 35 years. Ubud is in Gianyar district hence that court being used.
The maximum penalty is 10 years, but if he can prove he is an addict it can be just 3 months. Kind of sad when you see someone who is probably pretty cool get into hot water. According to The Age, the hash was found amongst orchids in his garden.
Mr. van Wieringen was arrested after police raided his house,

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Piracy

Last year, there were 269 attacks on ships, up from 239 in 2006 and reversing a downtrend seen since 2003, the International Maritime Bureau said in its annual report released by its piracy reporting center in Malaysia.
"The significant increase in the (2007) numbers can be directly attributed to the increase in the incidents in Nigeria and Somalia," IMB director Pottengal Mukundan said in a statement.
Global pirate attacks rose by 10 percent in 2007, marking the first increase in three years as sea robbers made a strong comeback in Nigeria and Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said Wednesday.
Attacks in Nigeria surged to 42 from 12 cases in 2006, he said. Somalia reported a threefold increase of 31 cases, from 10 in 2006.
The IMB report said pirates were better armed and more violent in 2007, with 18 vessels hijacked worldwide, 292 crew members taken hostage, five killed and three still missing.
Guns were used in 72 attacks, up 35 percent from 2006. It said 64 crew members were assaulted and injured, compared to only 17 in 2006, with majority of the incidents occurring off Somalia's coast.
The report said pirates used rocket propelled grenade launchers and automatic weapons as well as mother vessels to launch smaller craft to attack ships further away from Somali's coast.
Somalia's 1,880-mile coastline is the longest in Africa and near to key shipping routes connecting the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean. Wracked by 16 years of violence and anarchy, Somalia does not have its own navy and the transitional government formed in 2004 with U.N. help has struggled to assert control.
The IMB urged ships to stay as far away as possible from the Somali coastline.
In Nigeria — Africa's oil producer — attacks were focused in hotspots like Lagos, and some were linked to so-called militants claiming to pursue political goals, the report said.

Indonesia remained the world's hottest piracy hotspot with 43 attacks last year, but this was down from 50 cases in 2006 and were mainly low-level crimes, the report said.

The IMB also applauded authorities in Bangladesh for curbing attacks to 15 last year, down from 47 in 2006.

Cases in the Malacca Strait, a bustling shipping route that carries half the world's oil and more than a third of its commerce, also fell for a third successive year to seven, from 11 in 2006, it said.

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Bay of Islands Canterbury Trust

The Bay of Islands Canterbury Trust has admitted that the frigate is sitting 6m deeper than planned.
Julia Riddle, trust secretary and director of Northland Dive, said that was because delays during the scuttling ceremony had caused the ship to move from its original mark. She said the trust was ordered to sink it by the harbour master before they were able to move it back.
Phil Andrews, manager of Paihia's Dive HQ, said it was important to appreciate the dangers of any dive site and the Canterbury was no different.
Anyone who wanted to dive the wreck was encouraged to do so as part of an organised dive where there were supervisors in the water at all times.
"It's not a dive that many people would try to do off their own bat unless they were very experienced," Mr Andrews said.
He said divers who wished to dive the Canterbury on a Dive HQ excursion had to first prove they had enough experience beyond having their dive ticket.
If they weren't experienced enough they could only dive the wreck with an instructor.
Ms Riddle said there was an element of risk with any dive site and warned that people should not dive deeper than they were qualified to go. Divers who had an open water certificate could only dive to 18m and only those with an advanced diving certificate could descend to 30m.
"It's about diving to your ability and not exceeding your certification levels," she said.
Bay of Islands Canterbury Trust spokesperson Kelly Weeds said despite being deeper then the other wrecks he didn't believe the Canterbury was any more dangerous, provided divers were sensible.

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Norman's Cay

Norman's Cay is a small Bahamian island (a few hundred acres) in the Exumas, a chain of islands south and east of Nassau, that served as the headquarters for Carlos Lehder's drug-smuggling operation from 1978 to around 1982.
When Lehder arrived in Norman's Cay in 1978 he started purchasing large pieces of property, including a home for himself, a hotel and an airstrip. Shortly after Lehder began pushing the native population and vacationers off of Norman's Cay and gained full control of the island. Following Lehder's arrival air traffic over the small island began to increase and armed guards began patrolling the beaches. In July 1980 a yacht belonging to a retired couple was found drifting off Norman's Cay- blood stains were found when the boat was searched, and a corpse recovered.
As part of the Medellín Cartel, he used the island as a transshipment base for smuggling cocaine into the United States. Lehder, through Norman's Cay, is often attributed with revolutionizing drug smuggling. The typical method of transporting small shipments often carried by human drug mules, either through digestion or in their luggage, onto commercial airlines, was surpassed by the use of small aircraft shipping entire loads of cocaine.
Lehder eventually constructed a 3,300-foot long runway for his fleet of aircraft. In order to protect the island, armed guards patrolled the beaches and runway, radar was employed and attack dogs. Any pilot silly enough to land there was quickly warned off by heavily armed guards. The island served a strategic point as stop for Colombian drug flights to refuel and rest before proceeding to the United States.
With the Bahamian authorities looking the other way and the local inhabitants scared off, the island became a haven of debauchery for Lehder and his associates. Carlos Toro remembers, "Norman's Cay was a playground. I have a vivid picture of being picked up in a Land Rover with the top down and naked women driving to come and welcome me from my airplane... And there we partied. And it was a Sodom and Gomorrah... drugs, sex, no police... you made the rules... and it was fun."
In 1982, under pressure from US law enforcement, and despite years of turning a blind eye, the Bahamian government began to crack down on the activities on Norman's Cay, ultimately confiscating Lehder's land. It is now a tourist destination that can be reached by charter flight.
The island was again a subject of (minor) controversy when the newly-elected Progressive Liberal government honoured a pre-election in-principle agreement to sell the government-owned portion of the island valued at $60 million, despite the objections of the local MP. The government believes it may encourage further foreign investment.

The island's consortium of local and foreign buyers are thought to include resort chain Aman Resorts, a proudly small company that started in Phuket and specialises in five-star service amidst natural beauty environments.

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79 Sub Saharan immigrants were rescued

A total of 79 Sub Saharan immigrants were rescued in the Waters off the Canary Islands on Friday evening after being spotted adrift by a coastguard plane. All the travellers were adult males and all are in good health.
They were escorted into the port of Arguineguín on the SE of Gran Canaria after being picked up by the Coastguard vessel ‘Menkalinan’ supported by the naval vessel ‘Vencedora’.
The hospital ship ‘Esperanza del Mar’ docked in Arguineguín, on the South of Gran Canaria, shortly after 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, with 117 migrants rescued from a cayuco 200 miles off the island’s southern shore in the early hours of Sunday. They were initially spotted on Saturday, when they were 250 miles off the Canaries coast.
The Canary Islands belong to Spain. Under their liberal immigration rules, migrants can be detained for 40 days. If officials are unable to establish their nationality, they are freed to live in Spain. shortest sea route from the African coast to the Canaries is 60 miles but since Morocco has stepped up patrols, more migrants are forced to take a 500 mile trip from Mauritania.
The journey, in open boats, can take a week. An estimated one in three vessels do not make it, resulting in thousands of deaths each year.
number of illegal immigrants killed while attempting the perilous 2,000km sea crossing from north Africa during 2006 could be as high as 6,000, although only 600 bodies have been recovered.
The number of illegal immigrants arriving in the archipelago has risen to 31,000, six times as many as 2005. "We're talking about a dramatic figure," said deputy Immigration councillor, Froilan Rodriguez, during an interview on Cadena Ser radio.
During 2006, around 20,000 illegal immigrants have been transferred to the Spanish mainland. Once there, the local authorities have a maximum period of 40 days to repatriate those that can be identified, or release onto the streets -with no means of supporting themselves- those whose identities cannot be confirmed.
Meanwhile, according to a report in a December issue of El Pais, the government has given the immediate go-ahead for 180,000 immigrant workers to be contracted in their countries of origin to work in Spain next year, and it is possible that more may be contracted before the start of 2008.

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William P. Archer III

William P. Archer III, 32, was plucked from his life raft in choppy seas on Thursday, 42 days after he set sail from Spain's Canary Islands on a solo voyage to the Caribbean island of Antigua.
His 39-foot (12-meter) vessel, the Alchemy, listed Newport, Rhode Island, as its home port, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Archer could not immediately be reached for comment.
The tanker, the Omega Lady Sarah, had been carrying oil products from New Orleans to Gibraltar when crew members spotted Archer's red parachute distress signal, and then saw him waving for help from a life raft tethered to the sinking yacht.
"His boat sank 25 minutes after our crew dragged him up to the ship," Gregory McGrath, chief financial officer for Athens-based Omega Navigation Enterprises, said in a telephone interview. He did not know how or when the yacht had been crippled.
Archer told rescuers he had not eaten in four days and had pain in his back. He was taken ashore in Nassau, Bahamas, and evaluated at a hospital before his release.

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Ibiza end of an Era

Last summer's season in Ibiza saw 720 arrests for drugs-related offences.
drug dealers swamped the major clubs, authorities took the unprecedented decision last summer to close three of the biggest venues. Amnesia, which attracts clubbers from across Europe, was shut for a month and fined ¿6,000 (£4,000) for its "lax attitude" towards the problem. Bora Bora and DC-10 were forced to close their doors for one and two months respectively. Both operate after-hours clubs.
In 2006, police launched a crackdown after becoming worried that a new, more violent, breed of British gangster was operating on the island. It followed a shooting in which two holidaymakers from Northern Ireland, Gareth Richardson and Niall Hamilton, were wounded in crossfire between British drug gangs.
The resort town of San Antonio, a mecca for clubbers at night, banned after-hours clubs some time ago. And now Sant Josep, home to clubs such as Space, DC10 and Bora Bora, is to do the same.
Spokesperson for Space, said: "The new rules mean some of our morning sessions will have to be moved to afternoons. But it also opens the door to more illegal parties in houses and on the beaches."
Last year, 4.5 million tourists spent their holidays in Ibiza, a 6.6 per cent rise on 2006.

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39 year old Gibraltarian, E.J.S

The Spanish National Police made several arrests last week on the Gibraltar border. One of these was a 37 year old Portuguese citizen, L.F.D.O., who was wanted by a court in Estella. Another, 44 year old J. L.C., was wanted by an Algeciras court, as was a 39 year old Gibraltarian, E.J.S. These arrests were a result of the documentation controls carried out by police at the border.

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125,000 weapons were destroyed

More than 125,000 weapons were destroyed in a smelting operation at the Caribbean Cement Company Ltd. yesterday, as the Government intensified its efforts to rid the country of illegal weapons.
The weapons, weighing half a tonne, comprised an assortment of pistols, rifles and high-powered guns.
According to Deputy Commis-sioner of Police Jevene Bent, the weapons included those that have been in storage from as far back as the 1950s, illegal guns seized by the police and defective police firearms that cannot be repaired.
"We've seized guns and we would have taken these before the courts. We also have guns that belonged to citizens but were left with the police for safekeeping and have not been collected," she said. "We would have done advertisements in the paper for them to be collected and, if they aren't after a period of time, then we dispose of them."
Minister of National Security Derrick Smith said yesterday's operation was the first of a series to be carried out.
"The capacity here couldn't take all (weapons) that we currently have in storage so there will be other occasions like this in the near future."
He said defective MP5 submachine guns were not among the lot that was burned.
"A representative from the constabulary force went to Pakistan to reorder, and sending back those 1,000 defective MP5s will take place once the new ones have arrived here."
According to information from the Constabulary Communication Network, 70 guns were seized in March, 61 in August and 61 as at the 30th of December.
In total, the police seized more than 630 guns in 2007.

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Second Lieutenant D.M.S.K. Dissanayake

Slave Island bomb blast on January 02 has risen to five as an army personnel succumbed to injuries while being treated at the National Hospital Colombo this morning, January 04.
Second Lieutenant D.M.S.K. Dissanayake of Sri Lanka National Guard (SLNG), one of the victims who received severe injuries due to the explosion, was admitted to the National Hospital and being treated at Intensive Care Unit. Hospital sources said the victim succumbed to his injuries around 3.05 a.m this morning, January 04.
Earlier, Four people including two schoolchildren, a 15 year old student of Ananda College and a 16 year old student of Asoka Vidyalaya-Colombo, and a mother were killed when LTTE terrorists carried out a cowardly bomb blast targeting civilians and an army bus in Colombo on January 2.
The targeted army bus was carrying disabled and sick soldiers to the Army hospital at Narahenpita. LTTE terrorists triggered off the claymore bomb right opposite the Infant Jesus Roman Catholic church at Slave Island around 9.30.a.m, defence sources said.
According to the sources in the National Hospital Colombo, 24 people including 14 civilians and 10 soldiers suffered injuries in the incident. Four of the injured are in serious conditions, the sources added.

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Alex.& Jumpa swim to Nevis

“Alex” and “Jumpa”, were reportedly fishing and diving for conchs off the coast of Nevis. However, the two men could not be found by their boat pilot because of heavy rains at sea.
The boat pilot journeyed to Nevis in the vessel and contacted the St. Kitts Nevis Coast Guard Base and informed them of what had transpired. A search team was deployed to look for the men but was later called off as night had fallen making it virtually impossible to locate the men in the water.
The men, as SKNVibes understands, escaped the ordeal unharmed as they managed to swim to Nevis.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts:

The Security Forces were able to end 2007 on a positive note in relation to the recovery of illegal firearms as officers from the Defence Force recovered two guns- a 9mm pistol and a .380 pistol- and some ammunition on December 31st, on Princes Street, Basseterre.
The 9mm pistol had 10 rounds of ammunition while the .380 had two rounds.
According to a Police Press release, the soldiers were making a routine patrol along the above mentioned street, when they came upon some unidentified men who threw an object under a car and fled the scene once they sighted the soldiers.
A thorough search under the car revealed the two pistols and ammunition.
The identity of the young men is still unknown.
The recovery of the two weapons means that 21 weapons were recovered from the streets in 2007, compared to 8 in 2006.
.380 with two rounds ammunition
The discovery of the weapons was quite significant as the Carnival celebrations were at their peak and Princes Street is right in the midst of the celebration areas.

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identified a suspect for the gruesome killing of the mother of five

homicide detectives are in the Philippines as the hunt for the killer of a woman found dead in the front yard of a Springvale house intensifies.
They have been talking to the family of Luvina Dayang as they search for clues as to why she was found bashed and wrapped in two garbage bags on December 12 in View Rd.
Officers have also travelled to Sydney.
It is believed investigators have identified a suspect for the gruesome killing of the mother of five, who had been badly beaten.
Ms Dayang, 50, was last seen alive by friends in Sydney after telling them she was travelling to Melbourne.
She journeyed south by bus after saying she wanted to find work here.
Ms Dayang has since been informally identified as the murder victim found by the owners of a property under renovation.
Detectives who have travelled to the Philippines have identified a number of "persons of interest" in the case.
They have collected DNA samples from people they believe are family members of Ms Dayang and her dental records to help confirm her identity.
Australian Federal Police agents have helped with the Filipino investigation.
Det Sen-Sgt Jeff Maher, of the homicide squad, said Ms Dayang's family were rocked by the news of her death.
"They've been devastated but very enthusiastic to help us," he said.
Other detectives in Sydney have been interviewing associates of Ms Dayang to try to piece together her movements before she left.
Ms Dayang has three sons and two daughters who live in the Philippines.

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11,000 illegals landed

11,000 illegals landed in the Canaries during 2007, a significant reduction compared to the previous year thanks to the effectiveness of sea patrols off the coast of Africa, which have prevented many would-be migrants from departing. However, the drop has been accompanied by an increase in the number of deaths at sea of Africans who have failed to survive the crossings.Latest news: The migrants, who include a small number of under-18s, were spotted in difficulty in their large wooden boat 200 miles off the coast of Gran Canaria and the ship was sent out to assist them. They were met in harbour by the local Red Cross, who provided food and medical treatment, and were then transferred by coaches to the main police station in Las Palmas to begin the formalities to return them to their countries of origin.

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