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[email protected] [email protected] W e cover your world Vol. 19 No. 4 Jamaica: 654-7282 THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NEWS MAGAZINE Caribbean and other nation- als arriving at some major MARLEY MAGIC United States airports must now have all 10 fingers electronically printed as part of a new Homeland Security program to nab criminals and bolster air- port security, page 2. Caribbean leaders have hailed the contributions of outgoing Cuban President Fidel Ruiz Castro. The 81-year-old leader said that he would not return American actor Danny Glover, left, was so impressed by the work of Caribbean-born music as commander-in-chief follow- legend Bob Marley, he helped make “Africa Unite”, a movie about the reggae icon. In this ing a session of the National issue Glover tells Caribbean Today about Marley’s influence, page 7. Assembly last month, page 7. Shalrie Joseph and ‘I was fearful at least a dozen players with strong for my life’ Caribbean roots are Fitzroy Salesman, a Jamaica-born gearing up suspended Miramar city commissioner, for another pleaded not guilty in a Florida court season in Major League during arraignment on a charge he Soccer, the game’s highest professional level in the pulled a handgun on a fellow United States, which kicks off supermarket shopper, page 6. its 2008 season this later this month, page 19. CALL CARIBBEAN TODAY DIRECT FROM JAMAICA 654-7282 INSIDE News........................................2