Carib states want study on link between deportation and crime
CARICOM REPRESENTATIVES have suggested that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) intervene to curtail the massive deportation of residents from foreign nations to the Caribbean.

British MP complains about recruitment policy
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): A BRITISH government Member of Parliament has complained that the conscription policy of the part-time Bermuda Regiment amounts to gender discrimination and violates the European convention on human rights.

Jailed priest said in need of urgent medical treatment
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): A JAILED Catholic priest who had been considered a potential presidential candidate may have cancer and should be released immediately to seek medical treatment in the United States, one of his lawyers said yesterday.

Post-Castro era imminent - envoy
HAVANA (Reuters): WASHINGTON'S NEW top diplomat in Havana sees mounting frustration and anger in Cuba and is preparing for rapid change on the communist-run island, but he cannot predict when - or how - that will happen.