London cops fined for Brazilian's shooting
LONDON (Reuters): London's police chief defied calls to resign yesterday after a jury convicted his force of endangering the public by shooting dead an innocent Brazilian on an underground train, mistaking him for a suicide bomber. Police shot electrician Jean Charles de Menezes....
Jesse Jackson's pending visit to Carib condemned
NEW YORK (CMC): A United States-based Caribbean group has assailed as "imprudent and inappropriate", a proposed visit to Trinidad and Tobago in the heat of electioneering by famed US civil rights leader...
COP promises citizens referendum on death penalty
TRINIDAD, Port-of-Spain (CMC): The Congress of the People (COP) says it will give citizens of Trinidad and Tobago the power to decide on major constitutional moves, including the abolition of the death penalty and the acceptance of the Caribbean Court of Justice ...
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