BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) _ Cuba is not expected to seek to rejoin the Organization of American States anytime soon despite the OAS vote to lift a decades-old suspension, the multinational group's chief said Monday.

OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza told reporters it's likely that "some years" and "a lot of changes in Cuba" will happen before the Cuban government asks to return to the 34-nation organization.

"We hope they will do so, but we don't think that they will do so in the near future," Insulza said in Barbados, where he was holding his first official meeting with the country's new foreign minister.

The OAS voted in June to lift the suspension of Cuba's membership as part of an effort at regional solidarity. Cuba quickly rejected the offer to rejoin the OAS, which it has accused of supporting U.S. hostility toward its communist government.

Insulza said the OAS did not expect Cuba to immediately embrace the group but felt it was important to remove a prohibition on the island's membership _ a Cold War relic that he said had become "negative for the organization."

"We succeeded in that; we eliminated that," he said of the lifting of the suspension. "Now the next step belongs to Cuba. They have to ask to return and we have to discuss that in council, with them."

Membership in the OAS gives a country a voice in hemispheric agreements on major issues. The OAS has often tried to mediate solutions to political conflicts and it has offshoots that coordinate health policies and protect human rights.

VIRGIN ISLANDS: US Virgin Islands juror admits seeking bribe in tax fraud case of Illinois car dealer

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) _ A juror in the U.S.Virgin Islands pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to bribe the defense in a major tax fraud case involving an Illinois car dealer.

The U.S. attorney's office says Dorothy Hendricks sought $3,000 to $5,000 in exchange for voting for an acquittal in the trial of James Auffenberg Jr. and the promoters of a Virgin Islands-based tax shelter called Kapok LLC.

The lawyer approached by Hendricks informed the judge and the 54-year-old juror was replaced by an alternate. The jury cleared Auffenberg and the shelter's promoters in March after a six-week trial.

Hendricks faces up to 15 years in prison.

JAMAICA: US asks Jamaica to extradite alleged leader of 'Shower Posse' gang on drug, weapons charges

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ The United States has asked Jamaica to extradite a suspected crime boss to face federal drug and weapons-trafficking charges in New York, officials said Monday.

A U.S. indictment accuses Christopher "Duddus" Coke of leading the "Shower Posse" _ a gang with agents in Jamaica and the United States that was named in the 1980s for its members' tendency to spray victims with bullets.

The indictment has become a sensitive topic for the government because Coke, a businessman in the island's violence-wracked capital, Kingston, is known for loyalty to Jamaica's governing party. The political opposition says it is watching to make sure he does not receive favorable treatment.

The extradition request is under review and an arrest warrant has not been issued, said Rohan Powell, a spokesman for the island's Justice Ministry.

Coke's lawyer, Tom Tavares-Finson, dismissed the allegations as "hype" from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and said his client is dumbfounded.

Coke, also known as "President" and "Shortman," is charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and conspiracy to illegally traffic in firearms in an indictment that was unsealed Friday in the U.S. Southern District of New York. Coke, 40, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

CUBA: Cuba protests US visa denial to wife of convicted Cuban intelligence agent

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ Cuba accused the Obama administration of following in the footsteps of the Bush administration and violating U.S. law by denying a visa to the wife of a convicted intelligence agent for the communist nation.

In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon circulated Monday, Cuba's U.N. Ambassador Abelardo Moreno Fernandez demanded that the U.S. government grant Adriana Perez "a humanitarian visa immediately so that she may visit her husband," Gerardo Hernandez.

The ambassador said that on July 15, after a wait of 95 days, the U.S. Interests Section in Havana denied Perez a visa for the 10th time, using "the crude argument" that she "constitutes a threat to the stability and national security of the United States."

"This is shameful confirmation that the current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is using the same argument as her predecessor Condoleezza Rice to deny Ms. Adriana Perez her visa," Moreno Fernandez said.

The U.S. Supreme Court in June refused to review the conviction of Hernandez and four other intelligence agents for the communist country despite calls from Nobel Prize winners and international legal groups to consider the case.

GUANTANAMO: US says Gitmo prisoner sent to Portugal was Syrian who complained of harsh conditions, abuse

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ A Guantanamo inmate who said the prison's harsh conditions drove him to attempt suicide has been sent to Portugal, the U.S. said in court documents.

Mohammed Khan Tumani, 26, was one of two Syrian prisoners at Guantanamo transferred to "the control of the government of Portugal," U.S. officials said in documents filed Sunday in Washington. The other was Moammar Badawi Dokhan.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that the prisoners had been transferred but did not reveal their names. A spokesman, Dean Boyd, said they were not identified for security and privacy reasons at Portugal's request.

Portuguese officials said the men did not face charges and would not be subject to any travel restrictions once they obtain permanent visas.

Khan Tumani's lawyer, Pardiss Kebriaei, said in February that the isolation and harsh conditions at Guantanamo Bay had driven him to repeatedly bang his head against the wall and show other signs of "mental deterioration," including smearing the walls of his cell with excrement. They said he slashed one of his wrists in December.

PUERTO RICO: 10 Cuban migrants found on Puerto Rican island following journey from Dominican Republic

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Ten Cuban migrants landed on a small island west of Puerto Rico on Monday and will likely be permitted to remain in the United States, U.S. authorities said.

Smugglers apparently dropped the migrants overnight on Monito Island, a mountainous speck about 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of the U.S. Caribbean territory's main island, authorities said.

All 10 were in good health and released to the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection for processing. They were expected to be released Tuesday, said Jeffrey Quinones, a spokesman for the U.S. agency.

Under a U.S. policy known as "wet-foot, dry-foot," Cubans intercepted at sea are mostly sent home, while those who reach U.S. soil are usually allowed to stay.

Quinones said Monito Island is favored by Cuban migrants because at a 40-mile distance it is the closest U.S. territory to the Dominican Republic, a favored stop-off point on the route to Puerto Rico.

Separately, the U.S. Border Patrol said it apprehended eight migrants from the Dominican Republic on Puerto Rico's west coast Sunday night. All were expected to be deported except for one named in a felony warrant in New York.