Olympic sprinting champion Julien Alfred returned home Tuesday to St. Lucia, the eastern Caribbean island where she once ran barefoot as a child. Some fans came from as far away as London, England to celebrate.

Haiti's main international airport reopened on Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it to all traffic in early March.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt told reporters Friday he is baffled over how $12.7 million US of his money has gone missing from a local private investment firm that authorities are investigating as part of a massive fraud that began more than a decade ago.