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A Britten-Norman Trislander, the kind of small aircraft that disappeared off the Dominican Republic Monday with 12 on board. A small Caribbean airplane that vanished into thin air Monday was allegedly stolen by a fired Dominican Navy cadet who may have been trying to carry illegal immigrants to America, the plane’s owner told FOXNews.com. Luis Perez, the Puerto Rico-based owner of the aircraft charter company, said his twin-engine plane was stolen by an unlicensed pilot named Adrian Jimenez. Authorities told him Jimenez was a student of the Dominican Republic Armed Forces and a former Navy cadet. “They took his pilot’s...

CARACAS, Venezuela – The Venezuelan government on Friday denied any link to a businessman who was stopped at an Argentine airport carrying a suitcase filled with nearly $800,000 in cash. The Venezuelan businessman, Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, carried the money from Caracas to Buenos Aires on a flight chartered by the Argentine government, and the undeclared funds were seized by customs agents last weekend. “We don't have anything to do with that plane or with that trip ... nothing to do with that businessman,” Venezuelan Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas told reporters. The incident has shaken the Argentine government, prompted one...

Excerpt - MIAMI (Reuters) - The bodies of 54 people have been recovered following Friday's capsize of a Haitian sailboat that was being towed by police in the Turks and Caicos islands, the British territory's government said on Monday. Seventy-eight migrants survived the accident and were expected to be returned to Haiti, the government said in a statement. Rescuers continued the search for survivors and victims. On Friday, officials had said 20 people died and 58 were missing in the accident. A Royal Turks and Caicos Police patrol boat intercepted the sloop -- which may have been carrying as many...

As Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide warned of an exodus by sea from Haiti's violent rebellion Tuesday, the Turks and Caicos Islands reported the capture of 100 of some 400 Haitian migrants who landed there since last week.Island authorities also have intelligence reports of another five boatloads en route, said Alonzo Malcolm, deputy director of immigration for the islands, a British dependency 90 miles north of Haiti's northern coast.The arrival of the Haitians, and the arrival of another 62 who sailed to Jamaica over the past week, underlined fears of an emigration wave as Haiti sinks deeper into chaos amid a...

A Canadian Alliance MP wants Canada to investigate the possibility of annexing the idyllic Turks and Caicos Islands. Peter Goldring, MP for Edmonton Centre-East, has drafted a motion asking the federal government to study the practicality of "a union" that would see the islands adopted as "Canada's 11th province." He plans to introduce it when the House of Commons reconvenes this fall. Canada has twice rejected the idea of annexing the archipelago in the past 30 years. But Mr. Goldring says it might make sense to reconsider in "this new day and age of international terrorism." "Maybe it would be...