WASHINGTON (AP) _ The U.S. Defense Department says a small shipment of swine flu vaccine has arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. It is unlikely any of the terror detainees held there will get any of the sought-after vaccine now.

The possibility that detainees would get vaccinated became a political and public relations headache for the Obama administration at a time when many Americans are still waiting for doses that are scarce.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman says approximately 300 doses arrived at the prison in Cuba on Monday. That is not enough to cover all of the troops and health care workers who would get their vaccinations ahead of the detainees.

Detainees still could receive vaccinations, after all the highest-priority troops and employees are treated.

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Judge sentences US man to at least 25 years for wife's 1999 scuba slaying

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (AP) _ A former dive shop owner convicted of killing his wife on a Caribbean scuba outing in 1999 was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for what prosecutors called a near-perfect crime motivated by his desire to pursue another woman.

David Swain was found guilty of murder nearly a decade after Shelley Tyre drowned while diving at a sunken ship off Tortola. Authorities in the British territory initially classified her death as an accident, but filed charges after the woman's family won a civil judgment against Swain in the U.S. in 2006.

Swain, 53, faced a mandatory life sentence following his Oct. 27 conviction. Justice Indra Hariprashad-Charles said the premeditated nature of the crime bound her to deny a defense request that he become eligible for parole after 18 years in prison.

In the trial, prosecutors argued that Swain killed Tyre to pursue a romance with another woman and get his 46-year-old wife's inheritance. Swain's lawyers called it a weak case that lacked physical evidence and plan to appeal the verdict.

No eyewitnesses or DNA evidence linked Swain to the murder. The prosecution's case rested largely on experts who testified they believed Swain wrestled his wife from behind at a depth of 80 feet (24 meters), tore off her scuba mask and shut off her air supply while they swam near the shipwreck.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Prosecutor says Villanona offered victim's family nearly $140K

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) _ A top prospect for the San Francisco Giants offered the family of a man he allegedly killed nearly $140,000 so they would drop the case against him, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Angel Villalona has already paid the family $55,000 and expects to offer another $83,000, prosecutor Jose Antonio Polanco told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The family had viewed the payment as compensation for the killing of 25-year-old Mario Felix de Jesus Velete, but prosecutors will not drop the case, he said.

The victim's mother, Eufemia Gregoria Velete, could not be reached for comment.

Police say Villalona turned himself in 12 hours after the Sept. 19 bar shooting in La Romana. He could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

He was released last Friday on $14,000 bail after the family issued a statement saying it had accepted the money, Polanco said.

A judge was expected to hear the case in about a month, Polanco said.

Villalona, 19, was signed by the Giants in 2006 and received a $2.1 million signing bonus.

The first baseman played in 74 games with Class-A San Jose this season, batting .267 with nine home runs and 42 RBIs. Baseball America chose him as the Giants' top prospect before the 2008 season, and he was selected for the Futures Game during All-Star festivities that year.

HAITI: UN helicopter makes emergency landing, draws crowd hoping for food

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti say a mechanical problem forced a helicopter to make an emergency landing during a training flight.

Mission spokeswoman Sophie Boutaud de la Combe says a crowd gathered around the helicopter in the southern town of Faucher hoping that it was carrying food.

Peacekeepers fired at least one warning shot to disperse the crowd as they waited for a repair crew, Boutaud de la Combe said Tuesday.

A Haitian man struck in the arm by the cartridge from a warning shot was treated for a minor injury.

Boutaud de la Combe said none of the six peacekeepers aboard were injured in the landing around 1 a.m. Tuesday. The helicopter was repaired on site and returned later to the capital, Port-au-Prince.

PUERTO RICO: Police charge 5 in robbery of New York lawyer inside Ritz-Carlton hotel

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Puerto Rico authorities have charged five suspects in the robbery of a New York lawyer inside his room at a Ritz-Carlton hotel.

Police say two of the suspects are women whom the victim invited to his room at the luxury hotel in the Isla Verde tourist district outside San Juan.

Police Capt. Samuel Luciano says the women called three men who helped carry out the robbery.

All five are charged with robbery and unlawful imprisonment.

Luciano said Tuesday that a 17-year-old girl also in the room has not been charged.

Authorities say the victim, Robert J. Anello, was threatened with a knife and tied up with lamp cords and a necktie before dawn Monday. His credit cards, two cell phones and $800 in cash were stolen.

CARIBBEAN: Martinique, French Guiana referendum on autonomy from France moved up to Jan. 10

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AP) _ A vote on whether the Caribbean island of Martinique and French Guiana want more autonomy from Paris has been moved up to Jan. 10.

The French government says the change leaves more flexibility for a second round of voting if the first ballot is inconclusive.

The referendum was initially scheduled for Jan. 17. The government announced the change Tuesday.

Martinique and French Guiana are currently both departments of France, equivalent to mainland departments.

Voters will choose whether to adopt autonomy status, which would allow local governments more administrative freedom.

They would remain part of France, like other overseas French territories around the world.

CARIBBEAN: Cuban man, Texas prison gang leader, executed for Houston robbery-slaying

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ A Cuban-born man identified as a leader of a Hispanic prison gang has been executed for the robbery-slaying of a Houston drug dealer more than 10 years ago.

Yosvanis "El Cubano" Valle denied fatally shooting 28-year-old Jose Martin Junco at a Houston home in June 1999 but said there was little he could do to avoid lethal injection. On Tuesday evening, 34-year-old Valle became the 21st inmate executed in Texas this year.

Court documents showed the June 1999 holdup was a test devised by Valle to see if a gang member had the courage to shoot Junco.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week rejected a request from Valle's lawyers that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison.

CARIBBEAN: Vigil held for pregnant soldier of Puerto Rican descent killed in Fort Hood attack

CHICAGO (AP) _ Dozens of mourners clutching candles and white carnations gathered for a vigil outside the home of a pregnant soldier who was killed in last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

Friends on Monday remembered Pvt. Francheska Velez's infectious smile and her love of music as they listened to pop songs blaring from a speaker at the two-flat building on the city's west side. Mourners stood silently, wiping away tears and occasionally stepping forward to sign an American flag hanging on the wrought-iron front gate.

The 21-year-old soldier of Puerto Rican descent was one of 13 people killed at the Army post Thursday. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is accused of opening fire on soldiers, also wounding 29 others, before civilian police shot him in the torso.

One of those keeping vigil, Cesar Gandia, said he last saw Velez when she came home for a visit from Iraq in August. He recalled how Velez insisted on wearing high heels the entire time because she was sick of combat boots.

Velez had planned to return to Chicago soon because she was pregnant.

JAMAICA: Man sentenced to hang for killing assistant police chief; 2 others get life in prison

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) _ Jamaica has sentenced one man to hang for the 2007 murder of an assistant police commissioner, and two more to life in prison.

Twenty-six-year-old Massimassa Adams was accused of firing the shots that killed Gilbert Kameka, the highest-ranking police officer to be slain in Jamaica.

Adams was sentenced Monday night.

It is unlikely that he will be executed, however. Jamaica has not hanged anyone since 1988, despite recent efforts by some legislators and civic groups to enforce capital sentences.

The country has one of the world's highest murder rates. More than 1,200 people were reported killed through September on the island of 3 million people.