PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

Two Caribbean-born men named in a terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy airport in New York, were yesterday remanded until June 11 when they appeared in a Magistrate's Court in Trinidad.

Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicholls remanded Abdul Kadir, 55, a former mayor of a town in Guyana, and a one-time member of Parliament in that country, and Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, 61, to jail when they appeared before him charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts against the laws of the United States.

Extraditable offence

Court documents indicated that the case was down to start on August 2. The magistrate told the accused men that the offence was an extraditable one and the matter had to be laid indictably. They were not required to plead.

Magistrate McNicholls told the accused that while he had remanded them until June 11, it was their right to apply to a judge in chambers for a bail hearing.

Defence lawyers Rajiv Persaud and Faris Scoon, who were holding brief for lead defence attorney, Syard Hosie SC, told the Caribbean Media Corporation that they have already informed the court that they would be making a bail application.

"The state also required that if we are making a bail application we need to inform them of the content and reasons before we come to court with the application," he said.