June 8, 2012
Government ministers bat for Grenada PM
Two National Democratic Congress (NDC) political party executive members, who are also Grenada government ministers, have brushed aside suggestions that there was something untoward in Prime Minister Tillman Thomas receiving a cash contribution…
June 7, 2012
UN Committee Against Torture blasts Cuba
The United Nations (UN) Committee Against Torture has hammered Cuba’s Raul Castro administration for a lengthy string of alleged human rights abuses and complained that the socialist government in Havana had provided few or none of the details…
June 7, 2012
UN Committee Against Torture blasts Cuba
The United Nations (UN) Committee Against Torture has hammered Cuba’s Raul Castro administration for a lengthy string of alleged human rights abuses and complained that the socialist government in Havana had provided few or none of the details…
June 7, 2012
Jamaica to strengthen ties with overseas community
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said that the government of Jamaica will be strengthening relations with the Diaspora and regional and international partners. Speaking in the 2012/13 budget debate on Tuesday, Simpson Miller said that an…
June 7, 2012
Arrests target Puerto Rico airport drug running ring
On May 31, a federal grand jury indicted 25 individuals as a result of an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice, United States Attorney Rosa…
June 7, 2012
Vincentians sue NYPD over alleged racial rough-up
Fifteen-year-old Brittany Rowley, a Vincentian honour student at an all-girls Catholic high school in Brooklyn, was heading to the library with a friend when she noticed a vehicle trailing them. What followed was “the most horrible thing I have…
June 6, 2012
Caribbean faces massive economic damage from global warming
Latin America and the Caribbean face annual damages in the order of $100 billion by 2050 from diminishing agricultural yields, disappearing glaciers, flooding, droughts and other events triggered by a warming planet, according to the findings of…
June 6, 2012
Shanique Myrie seeking significant damages from Barbados
Shanique Myrie, the 24-year-old Jamaican woman, who has taken legal action against the Barbados government after she alleged she was sexually assaulted by a female Immigration officer, insulted, and then denied entry into the country last year,…
June 6, 2012
Portia announces massive housing plans
Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, this afternoon announced a raft of measures designed to make more Jamaicans homeowners, ranging from reduced mortgage rates to free houses. She was making her contribution to the budget debate under the…
June 6, 2012
Back to drawing board in TNT
A FRESH crime plan is expected to be drawn up to deal specifically with the rising murder rate as National Security Minister, Brigadier (ret) John Sandy has called in Deputy Commissioner of Police Mervyn Richardson to an emergency meeting. In a…