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FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and...

Russian, Delta Jets Nearly Collide Over Caribbean WASHINGTON (AP) ― Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week. The National Transportation Safety Board says the Delta Air Lines flight and a Russian-registered passenger jet were heading toward each other north of Puerto Rico on Thursday when cockpit alarms went off. In a statement Friday, the NTSB says the pilot of the Russian plane -- a Transaero Boeing 737 -- descended 200 to 300 feet to avoid Delta Flight 485. The planes were 33,000 feet over...

Five illegal immigrants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to fraudulently obtain immigration documents, commonly known as green cards, in Houston federal court. Steavan Boxie, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, and Rajesh Kumar Ratilal Chauhan, Dipak Kumar Patel, Kamlesh Kumar Nana and Hitesh Patel, all of India, were arrested in September as a part of an 11-month sting operation. The five contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement undercover agents who they believed to be corrupt and offered about $15,000 per set of documents. Several payments were made at ICE offices in north Houston. The defendants each face up to five years imprisonment...

I have been only mildly irritated by reports on the alleged plot to blow up JFK Airport which suggest that the unusual suspects in this case were simply too broke and stupid to pull it off. But I’ve been positively incensed by the fact that some of those reports were written by Caribbean natives who posited this condescending notion in a misguided attempt to express the shame and mitigate the guilt they presume we all feel. The Caribbean-American community in New York is understandably upset, embarrassed and miffed over the weekend revelations that four immigrants from the Caribbean, one of...

The investigation into the thwarted plot to bomb John F. Kennedy International Airport is widening beyond the four men in custody, with more suspects sought outside the U.S. for their suspected roles, a law enforcement official said Friday. The defendants identified last weekend were "just a piece of it," the official told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because of not being authorized to speak publicly. "We are definitely seeking more players. We are targeting others overseas." The official declined to provide details about the possible suspects, or in what countries they are being sought. Law enforcement officials,...

Trinidadian police tell The Associated Press that Abdel Nur, a Guyanese suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, has surrendered. The news comes a day after surveillance video was released of one of the suspects in the terror plot targeting the airport, taken just minutes before his arrest. In the video, the accused mastermind of the terror plot is seen leaving a diner shortly before his arrest. Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Rossen takes a closer look. In the diner surveillance tape, obtained by Eyewitness News, you can see the alleged ring leader and a...

British Intelligence: Al-Qaida Expanding -Full Story- British intelligence officials said they believe that al-Qaida has a secure base in Pakistan's Waziristan region and is planning terrorist operations.The group is reaching out to Muslims in North Africa, The Telegraph reported. Last year, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, an Algerian terrorist group, merged itself into al-Qaida, a move announced by Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a tape promising action against the "apostates" in the Algerian government and "the treacherous sons of France."Al-Qaida is also believed to be planning expansion into Lebanon and Syria, the newspaper report...

"Under the agreement, Venezuela will cover shipping costs, aid in the development of distribution infrastructure and storage sites, contribute to the formation of state-controlled facilities, and provide fuel-efficient systems in member countries. The one catch is PetroCaribe will only deal with a state controlled entity, meaning that the PetroCaribe agreement is based on eliminating all intermediaries. “We’re not talking about discounts…We’re talking about financial facilities, direct deliveries of products, [and] infrastructure,” said Energy and Petroleum Minister and President of PDVSA, Rafael Ramírez; the goal is to cut down on unnecessary, middlemen costs......"

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning met in Caracas yesterday to sign an energy agreement between the two oil producing countries. Despite previous conflicts regarding regional energy agreements, the two nations took a historical step forward in terms of economic integration, agreeing to unify the oil and gas reserves found along their maritime border...."

Fighting Jihad: Strategic Thinking Needed -Full Story- The United States of America has some of the smartest leaders in government, military, and business in the world. Yet the American government has failed to collectively use this formidable brain-power 5+ years after the attack by Jihadists on the American homeland to develop a truly strategic plan to fight the global threat of Jihad and Islamist extremism. In one of the most complex wars in American history, rather than starting with holistic, big-picture thinking towards the challenges and prioritizing resources and actions accordingly, America has spent much of the past five...

**WARNING** Graphic pic of the injured. THE Capital city was convulsed after what military investigators confirmed was a bomb exploded in a garbage bin yesterday in front of Maraj Jewellers at the corner of Frederick and Queen Streets, Port of Spain. The incident is not being viewed as a terrorist act but the city was under lockdown following the event and all of last night. But business is expected to resume as usual today. Fifteen persons were injured when, just after 2 p.m., the device which had been placed in a wrought iron bin outside of the store tore through...

Trinidadian authorities have detained an Israeli national found living in a remote mountainous area east of the capital, police said, declining to state if he was being questioned in connection with a recent spate of bombings in the Caribbean island nation. A string of bombings, the latest one occuring last Thursday, have rocked the capital of Port-of-Spain. The bombings have injured 28 people. Authorities identified the detained man as Dahtang Mik Agarunov, 26. They said he was found living in a wooden shack in Arouca, about 10 miles east of Port-of-Spain. Agarunov was detained on Friday and questioned by Interpol,...

CHARLIEVILLE, Trinidad and Tobago – Five years ago, as 19 al-Qaida operatives in the United States put the finishing touches on what would become the Sept. 11 attacks, a frail, asthmatic computer engineer from South Florida paid a visit to this tiny Muslim enclave where he’d lived as a boy. Adnan Gulshair Muhammad el Shukrijumah, then 25, kept a low profile over the course of the week. He hung out with a small circle of devout older men who were leaders of the local Islamic community. They prayed in mosques, went fishing and enjoyed long walks and leisurely dinners, recalled...

While I was on a visit to Toronto recently, police arrested 17 men, the oldest of them 43 but most much younger, on charges of plotting a terrorist attack. They wished, apparently, to blow up the parliament in Ottawa and publicly behead the prime minister. Cops caught them in the process of buying three times as much material for explosives as Timothy McVeigh used in the Oklahoma City bombing. Reporting the arrests, the New York Times called the men “South Asians”—though one of them was an Egyptian, two were Somali, and most had been born in Canada—thus concealing by an...

Starting off the day will be Real Salt Lake's Douglas Sequeira and his Costa Rican teammates, who play Ecuador at 8:55 a.m. ET in Hamburg (ESPN2). The ticos showed pluck in their Group A opener against Germany on Friday, making a game of it by scoring twice against the hosts before falling 4-2. The Central Americans will need to have more players get involved in the attack against Ecuador, as Paulo Wanchope provided their only offense. The Ecuadorians got a huge weight off their shoulders by downing Poland 2-0 in their group play opener Friday. Previously, the side had been...

Arima · Seated at a table under a traditional Carib Indian thatch roof, cousins Jason Calderon and Rosa Bharath are busy hot-gluing sequins on decorations for Carnival, listening to pop music on the radio while clad in the latest teen fashions: hip T-shirts, knockoff adidas shoes and earrings that look like diamonds.

Trinidad and Tobago: A Nation of Two Islands Ansil Williams “You’re from where?” That’s a question I often hear as an international student. My name is Ansil Williams. I am a senior cadet at Millersburg Military Institute in Kentucky, but I come originally from Trinidad and Tobago, two small islands in the Caribbean. These islands comprise the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago won independence from Great Britain in 1962. The islands had been under Dutch, French and Spanish rule before they came under Great Britain. My country’s flag has a rectangle shape and appears with three colors:...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -A radical Muslim group in Trinidad that staged an attempted coup in 1990 is under fire from the government for allegedly inciting violence. Fifteen years ago, a radical Muslim group firebombed the police headquarters here, hijacked the nation's only television station and held Parliament hostage for six days. The failed coup by Jamaat Al-Muslimeen -- the only Islamic revolt in the Western Hemisphere -- left 24 dead and the prime minister with a gunshot wound in his leg. The attackers were given amnesty two years later, and the group and its charismatic leader, Yasin Abu Bakr, have since...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Police fired warning shots at a man who drove too close to the president's convoy, authorities said yesterday. Nelvin Lion Moore, 35, swerved near a convoy Thursday escorting President George Maxwell Richards to his private residence in St Joseph, a suburb of the capital. "The police took action against a driver that interfered with the president's police escort. In spite of the warning he failed to move and the police fired some shots," said Oswyn Allard, deputy police commissioner. Moore has pleaded innocent to charges of using obscene language, driving under the influence of...

AL ASAD, Iraq (Dec. 30, 2005) -- On Sept. 11, 2001, a young Trinidad native who relocated to New York with his family three years earlier was sitting in a U.S. Military Entrance Processing Station, waiting to take his first steps toward his future as a Marine. The terrorist attacks that day delayed his trip to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., but steeled his resolve to become a Marine. "It was like watching something from a movie," said Sgt. Andre G. Joseph, a personnel administration chief with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 26. "I was upset about it, especially...

Trinidad police arrest two members of Islamic group after bomb found ... Trinidad also has experienced a rash of bombings this year: four bombs were detonated in Port of Spain and St James, on the capital outskirts, between July and October, injuring about 25 people. Police haven't charged anyone in those bombings and haven't said they believe Jamaat al Muslimeen was involved.

Caribbean: Islamic radicalism on the rise? POLICE used an excavator to dig up the floor of an office adjoining a mosque near Port of Spain, Trinidad's capital, in a search for weapons. The dig was fruitless, but elsewhere in the mosque complex they found a gun, a grenade and ammunition. On November 11th they charged the mosque's imam, Yasin Abu Bakr, with firearms offences. He already faced charges of sedition and a retrial for conspiracy to murder. Six other mosques were raided, though nothing more was found. Rather than Islamic terrorism, Trinidad would seem to be facing a simple crime...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidadian police have arrested an Islamic leader, whose group stormed Parliament 15 years ago and took the prime minister and his Cabinet hostage. Yasin Abu Bakr, 64, leader of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, was arrested Monday and charged on Wednesday with sedition and violent incitement. On Thursday, police forced their way into his compound, detaining as many as 11 people, before releasing most of them, authorities said. The police razed the compound. Abu Bakr last week called for war against all rich Muslims who refuse to pay zakaat, an Islamic tithe used to alleviate poverty. In 1990, Abu Bakr's...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - An explosion wounded at least six people outside of a popular nightclub in Trinidad's capital on Friday, police said. Five people were rushed to a nearby hospital, while a sixth person with cuts and burns on both arms, was treated at the scene. One of the wounded was in serious condition, police said. The explosion happened at 7:05 p.m. on a sidewalk outside of a popular club in the St. James section of the city, where the main streets are lined with bars and clubs. Police cordoned off the scene of the explosion after hundreds of...

"Suspicious" substances and literature found in the luggage of a Muslim man about to take a flight to London from Tobago have triggered an international terror investigation. The probe led police officers and their bomb-sniffing dogs to homes in rural Tabaquite and posh Gulf View, San Fernando. Using the power of search warrants, investigators seized a computer and telephone at the Tabaquite house on Friday night. The 26-year-old man detained by police is a Londoner who came to Trinidad two months ago and was staying with his paternal grandmother, who lives off the Torrib/ Tabaquite Road. Police said last night...

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Kent D. Padmore From Trinidad to Iraq: Marine Bridges Cultural Differences By U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Mike Escobar 2nd Marine Division FALLUJAH, Iraq, Oct. 5, 2005 -- It is said that experience is the best teacher, the common denominator that unites people of different backgrounds who have lived under similar conditions and tackled similar challenges. For U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Kent D. Padmore, a childhood spent in poverty on the island nation of Trinidad prepared him for the monumental task he would undertake decades later."I came to the United States in my mid-twenties, already having...

The Trinidadian government has announced Spanish is to become the island's official language by 2020 as it aims to strengthen ties with its Latin American trading partners. Copyright © The Colourful Network Patrick Manning, The Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago. Spanish will become Trinidad & Tobago’s official language by 2020 in order to compete and co-operate with its Latin American neighbours in the trade markets the government has said. Following meetings between the Secretariat for the Implementation of Spanish (SIS) and Ambassadors from Latin America, the Ministry of Trade and Industry has said the aim is to “deepen relations...

A deliberately set bomb blast has injured 13-2 critically-in the capitol of Trinidan and Tobago. A man was seen placing a parcel in a dumpster shortly before the container exploded.

According to a late BBC report, a bomb explosion in central Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad, has injured 13 people, two critically. It appears to bear the hallmarks of an Al-Qaeda attack, or at least one in sympathy with recent Islamist atrocities in London and elsewhere. With extensive Trinidad and Tobago experience, allow me to build a case for Islamo-fascism as the cause, even if local police aren't yet saying so.

A bomb exploded in a trash bin in downtown Port-of-Spain on Monday, wounding at least six people, officials said. Port-of-Spain Mayor Murchison Brown said on the radio that one person was killed, but Deputy Police Commissioner Glen Roach reported only that eight had been wounded, including two with major injuries. Cynthia Carrington-Murray, director of Trinidad General Hospital, the largest hospital in Port-of-Spain and the closest to the scene, said 11 people were wounded and there had been no deaths. "We have no idea of the kind of device used nor who is behind it," Roach said. Local media reported that...

Battle lines have been drawn in the Fallbrook parish of Saint Peter. A group of more than fifty families are accusing Saint Peter's pastor Father Edward "Bud" Kaicher and retired associate Father Bernard Rapp of misleading the parish. One incident in particular has prompted cries of, "Enough is enough!" from parishioners — Fathers Bud and Bernie's sudden dismissal of Father Ian Taylor, a charismatic missionary priest from Trinidad who has been serving in the parish while on a year's sabbatical. Father Ian is a diocesan priest from the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago who was ordained in 1988. In...

'Bring back the whip' By darren bahaw Thursday, June 17th 2004 A REPORT to combat violence and indiscipline in the nation's schools has recommended the reintroduction of corporal punishment as one of the immediate measures to be implemented by the Ministry of Education. Education Minister Hazel Manning, in releasing the report yesterday at the Hilton Trinidad, said Prof Ramesh Deosaran, author of the report, was commissioned to research the growing trend of indiscipline in schools and come up with the necessary solutions. Manning said the rush by the previous administration to provide secondary school places for all students in 2000...

China's Latin influence is growing, general says China is taking advantage of a U.S. influence vacuum in Latin America because of aid cuts, the commander of the Southern Command says. By PABLO BACHELET pbachelet@herald.com WASHINGTON - The head of the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command Wednesday warned that China was increasing its influence among Latin American militaries, and partly blamed a policy that cuts military aid to countries that refuse to exempt U.S. citizens from International Criminal Court jurisdiction. In his first testimony before a House panel, Army Gen. Bantz Craddock, who heads the United States Southern Command, offered an unusually...

The arrest of FARC terrorist Ricardo Granda sheds new light on Hugo Chavez's ongoing support of terrorism.Caracas SIMON TRINIDAD is the nom de guerre of Ricardo Palmera, a high-ranking terrorist of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), the deadliest and largest terrorist organization in the world. Thanks to Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe, Trinidad was extradited to the United States last month. He now awaits trial for a lengthy list of crimes involving the recent kidnapping and murder of American citizens in Colombia. Trinidad's capture was a victory in the fight against global terror (see Note, below), but it is...

Leftist “militants” ushered in the new year in Colombia in true form: Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) murdered 17 peasants, including 6 women and 4 children, who were gathered to celebrate New Year’s Eve. When I say “true form,” I mean FARC was practicing the art that the extreme left has mastered, perhaps invented: terrorism. On this New Year’s Eve, the FARC was proving it believes the “end justifies the means,” as it is the grotesque, disfigured child of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and, yes, even Hitler -- remember, he was a National Socialist (Nazi). FARC is...

Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama are on alert for the possible entry of suspected terrorist Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, after Honduran authorities warned that the 29-year old suspect, referred to by law enforcement sources as "the next Mohammed Atta," may be seeking to cross into one of the countries. Costa Rica is bordered on the north by Nicaragua and on the south by Panama. Shukrijumah, who is considered one of the FBI's "top 5" terrorist concerns, allegedly was spotted in Honduras on May 27 at a Tegucigalpa Internet cafe. "We found out that this man was in Tegucigalpa at the...

SCHOOL RIOT BRING SIR BACK By Richard Charan South Bureau Thursday, June 3rd 2004 Armed officers of the Guard and Emergency Branch clear the way to enter the gates of the San Fernando Secondary Comprehensive School yesterday to quell a violent disturbance by pupils over the transfer of their principal. Photo: TREVOR WATSON ARMED RIOT Squad police with sub-machine guns were called out to a secondary school yesterday to squash a violent protest by pupils angered over the transfer of their principal. Hundreds of pupils of the San Fernando Secondary Comprehensive School threw chairs and hurled racist remarks at teachers,...

Four Trinidadians have said US authorities questioned them about their contact with a suspected al-Qaeda operative after he visited T&T in 2001. Adnan G El Shukrijumah was named when US attorney general John Ashcroft warned of intelligence showing al-Qaeda plans for an attack against the United States. Large photos of El Shukrijumah and six others were displayed at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday. The Saudi native visited Trinidad for six days in May 2001 and stayed with Zainool Ali, who lives in Chaguanas. Ali and three others were questioned by US authorities in late 2003, they told AP....

Dr HARI MAHARAJH, senior lecturer in psychiatry at UWI's Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mt Hope, says studies show that more women than men are involved in child sexual abuse. He told the Sunday Express in an interview that this was so because women were more exposed to children, including as maids. Maharajh, who is also an attorney-at-law, said child sexual abuse included touching, fondling and abusing sex organs in children, and was very prevalent worldwide, as high as 6 to 62 per cent among females and 3 to 31 per cent in males. "So it's both male and female, it's...

New crime tool for T&T Govt, cops adopt Giuliani plan By Ucill Cambridge Sunday, May 9th 2004 Acting Commissioner of Police Trevor Paul at his office at Police Administration Building, Sackville Street Port of Spain. Photo: STEPHEN DOOBAY THE Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is at the stage of implementing former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's COMPSTAT concept as part of its crime-fighting plan. This from Acting Police Commissioner Trevor Paul at his office on Friday evening, where he had invited the media to meet Assistant Chief Gerald Darling, of the Miami Police Department. Darling spent a week in Trinidad...

MUSLIM SCHOLAR BANNED By Richard Charan South Bureau Tuesday, March 30th 2004 ASJA's Public Relations Officer Nizam Shah said yesterday that "no Muslim fanatic must be allowed to practice any terrorist-type activity that would lead to unrest in any community". And in a letter to one mosque, ASJA President General Yacoob Ali stated that "Maulana Imran N Hosein is considered to be a strong security risk in Trinidad and Tobago." Last night Hosein described the statements as a "smear campaign" and denied he was an extremist". "I certainly do not condone or incite people to respond to oppression with acts...

Churches 'without pity' for HIV By Rohandra John Monday, March 29th 2004 People with the HIV virus are made to feel disgraced and are subjected to stereotyping in churches and other religious institutions they turn to for comfort and solace. This was revealed in a study on Religion, Society and the HIV/Aids epidemic in Trinidad and Tobago , which was conducted by Jillian Genrich, a visiting United States Fulbright scholar attached to the Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago. Genrich who was speaking at a public lecture on HIV/Aids at the United States Embassy, Port of Spain, said she...

Seven-year-old David Sinanan reached out to touch the face of a "friendly looking" horse, and the stallion ripped his left arm off from his shoulder yesterday. Doctors at the Mt Hope Hospital tried, but failed in their attempt last night to reattach the hand. Sinanan's life was saved because of the efforts of horse farm worker Deonanan Sankar, 30, who stopped the attack, rescued the boy and kept him alive until paramedics came. Sinanan had stayed away from classes because he did not want to take part in his school's Carnival celebrations. The incident happened just before 11 a.m. yesterday...

<p>A court has frozen the Trinidad assets of a U.S.-based tire company that closed its plant in this Caribbean country and dismissed more than 400 workers, officials said Wednesday.</p> <p>Carlisle Tire and Rubber Ltd. closed the southern Trinidad tire plant two weeks ago after workers began protesting what they claimed were unsafe working conditions, including exposure to harmful chemicals.</p>

BOSTON -- The FBI has issued an alert, asking the public to be on the lookout for four Middle Eastern men the agency wants for questioning on terrorist matters and they may be in New England. The FBI in Portland, Maine has alerted State Police that a witness may have seen two men who resembled the wanted men in that area. The witness spotted them in Naples, Maine, just northwest of Portland, last Sunday around 4 p.m. They were heading south on Route 302. The witness told police the two men were driving a late-model, slate-gray BMW with Massachusetts plates....

"Let no child be left behind"; ... "It takes a village to raise a child"; ... "Quality time"; ... "Crime Stoppers." Each of the foregoing, unfortunate phrases is supposed by many to be an expression of progress, is as American as Enron and now is at home in - the West Indian Republic of Trinidad and Tobago? During our just-concluded annual visit to my wife's folks in Trinidad, my family was bombarded with warmed-over Americanisms on television. (While prosperous, tiny Tobago with its beautiful beaches is the preferred destination of tourists, 93 percent of the 1.3 million largely hardworking, hard-luck...

Army looks to China, Nigeria after US aid cut Female soldiers march during the 41st Anniversary Parade for the Commander-in-Chief of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force at Teteron Barracks, Chaguaramas, on Thursday. Photos: KENROY AMBRIS By Ucill Cambridge THE Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force is now looking towards China, Nigeria and India for assistance following the US decision to withdraw military funding over the International Criminal Court, according to Chief of Defence Staff, Brigadier General Ancil Antoine. Antoine was speaking at the 41st anniversary parade for the Commander-in-Chief of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force at Teteron Barracks on...

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez gets in the Carnival groove at a dinner at Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s residence, St Ann’s, Port of Spain, on Friday night. The media were not invited to the dinner but photos supplied by the Information Division show Chavez enjoying calypso and pan. Chavez left T&T yesterday.Chavez: T&T oil made us breathe again ‘We will repay love with love’ By Andy Johnson VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez left here yesterday saying that his country owed Trinidad and Tobago 500,000 years of love and gratitude. This, he said, was Venezuela’s way of saying thanks to Trinidad and Tobago...

‘Terror threat’ story no hoax, says cop By Darryl Heeralal AFTER six months of investigations, police say they have found no evidence to suggest that the terror threat story reported by the Sunday Express in January was a hoax or was planted by this newspaper, as suggested by the Minister of National Security Howard Chin Lee. This according to Supt Errol Denoon of the Port of Spain CID, who was appointed by then-commissioner Hilton Guy to investigate claims by an Islamic group that they intended to attack US and British interests in Trinidad and Tobago with chemical and biological weapons....

Government has been seriously considering a State of Emergency in Trinidad and Tobago, high-level officials said yesterday. They claim it has been on the agenda of Prime Minister Patrick Manning as chairman of the National Security Council, for the past few weeks. The State of Emergency was one of the major recommendations of the Ken Gordon Committee Report on Crime presented to Cabinet in May. A source said in recent weeks Government decision makers have been busy weighing the pros and cons of the move With six kidnappings for ransom last week, and a call by the San Juan and...