A PACKED Caribbean Airlines passenger jet skidded off a runway as it landed in Guyana at night on Saturday, then broke in two at the edge of a ravine.

A Caribbean Airlines jet coming from New York has crashed and broken in two while landing in Guyana with 163 people aboard, causing several injuries but no deaths.

Brazil’s president said “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation.

Caribbean governments are studying ways to give farmers tax breaks and improve irrigation systems to boost local food production.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised to support a proposal that would ease the impact of the European Union’s planned cut in sugar prices for Caribbean producers by slowly phasing in tariff reforms, the Guyanese government said today.