Guyana and Dominica have called for the reinstatement of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

	The efforts to get Mr Zelaya reinstated intensify

In a statement on the military coup that removed Mr Zelaya from office, Guyana's foreign affairs ministry called for the president's early reinstatement.

It's a position also being championed by Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit.

"We believe that it is a dangerous trend where the rule of law has been set aside," Prime Minister Skerrit said, condemning the coup.

He said the international community should consider 'some very harsh measures' if President Zelaya is not reinstated soon.

Stanford bond revoked

A federal judge in Houston has ordered that Texan financier Allen Stanford be kept in jail while he awaits his day in court.

The charges against him allege that Mr Stanford swindled investors out of $7 billion.

US District Judge David Hittner issued an order overturning a magistrate's decision last week to allow Mr Stanford to be free on $500,000 bond.

The businessman and cricket entrepreneur has been in custody since being indicted and arrested on June 18th.

Prosecutors who appealed against last week's decision to grant him a bond had argued, at a four-hour court hearing on Monday, that the financier was a serious flight risk because of his international ties, including holding dual US and Antiguan citizenship.

Assets frozen

On Tuesday, Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said that it had frozen more than $100 million in assets believed to be connected to Allen Stanford.

	Stanford linked assets are frozen in London

The SFO said that, in response to a formal request from the US Justice Department, it had obtained a restraining order over $100 million of assets believed to be held at certain London financial institutions.

The British financial investigators say these funds were allegedly acquired in connection with a suspected $7 billion investment fraud scheme operated by Allen Stanford.

The Serious Fraud Office said it froze the money in April after obtaining a restraining order that will see the cash held pending the outcome of the proceedings in the United States.

Broadcaster wins deportation case

An Antiguan high court judge has ruled that the June 2007 deportation of former Observer Radio talk show host Dominican Lennox Linton by Antiguan authorities was unlawful.

Mr Linton's lawyer, John Fuller, told BBC Caribbean that Justice Louise Blenman awarded the broadcaster EC$20,000 (about US$7,600) in damages for his expulsion from Antigua two years ago.

Mr Linton had a valid permit to remain in Antigua at the time but the authorities had accused him of working illegally.

Attorney Fuller says this week's case, along with a similar one four months ago, has helped shine the spotlight on the need for the rights of individuals to be protected.

Accused pastor makes bail

A New York based Pentecostal faith healer was released on bail in his native Jamaica on Monday, nearly two weeks after being charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl.

Paul Lewis was released on $5,600 bail and ordered to surrender his travel documents until a July 7th court date.

He is charged with carnal abuse and indecent assault for allegedly having sex with a 15 year old girl.

His website identifies Lewis, who was born in Jamaica but moved to the United States as a child, as a pastor for the Messengers of Christ World Healing Centre in Brooklyn.