Boy who staged own kidnapping 'grounded'
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): A TRINIDAD and Tobago court has 'grounded' a schoolboy who faked his own kidnapping and had demanded TT$100,000 (US$16,666) ransom from his parent.

Jailed Britons to visit UK for Christmas
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP): BARBADOS HAS allowed five British nationals jailed on kidnapping charges to go home for the Christmas holidays but ordered them to return to face trial.

Mother pleads for return of kidnapped fishermen
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP): The mother of two Trinidadian fishermen kidnapped and taken to Venezuela last week appealed yesterday for their safe return. A sobbing Kaloutie Heeralal, 53, said in an interview on Cable News Channel 3...