March 16, 2012
US Envoy to Haiti Urges Patience on Disaster Recovery
The U.S. ambassador to Haiti says it will take years to complete reconstruction efforts from the devastating 2010 earthquake. In an interview with VOA's Creole Service, Kenneth Merten compared the pace of reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince to…
March 13, 2012
Haiti: UN peacekeepers sentenced for raping teenage boy
A Pakistani military tribunal has convicted two United Nations peacekeepers for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy. UN spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg said judges from a Pakistani military tribunal came to Haiti to hold the trial that…
March 13, 2012
Cuba cardinal to give TV address about papal visit
The Roman Catholic Church says Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega will give a televised speech about Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit. Church spokesman Orlando Marquez says Ortega's speech is to air Tuesday evening on state-run channel Cubavision. A…
March 13, 2012
Former Guatemalan soldier gets 6060-year sentence in massacre
A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force extradited from the United States last July was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison Monday for his role in the killings of 201 people in a 1982 massacre. Pedro Pimentel Rios was the fifth…
March 13, 2012
Crime and security get the attention of CARICOM heads
Caribbean leaders have discussed current trends in criminal activity, including the international dimension and new and emerging threats to security in the region and agreed that the security of the region continued to be of high priority,…
March 13, 2012
OAS assistant secretary general calls for accelerated measures to address cyber-security
The OAS assistant secretary general, Albert Ramdin, has called on the countries of the hemisphere to accelerate efforts to address threats to cyber-security, while emphasizing the importance of doing so while respecting citizens’ rights and civil…
March 12, 2012
CARICOM: Security strain
CARICOM governments seem to be in a bind over what to do with their Implementation Agency for Crime And Security (IMPACS). The security agency was set up for the ICC Cricket World Cup which was held in 2007, but it is still in existence and is…
March 12, 2012
Haitian director of tourism optimistic about tourism sector
A Haitian tourism official has expressed optimism about his island’s tourism sector in the after math of the 2010 earthquake which caused severe devastation to the island. Director General of Tourism in Haiti, Daniel Fouchard, told an interview…
March 12, 2012
Four Plead Guilty: $3.4M Drug Case
This morning [Mar.12] in Supreme Court, four of the “Carefree Five” plead guilty to drug charges minutes before their trial was due to start. Carlos Rogers, Shaun Johnson, Kinola Simons and Bilal Shakir all pleaded guilty to possessing or…
March 12, 2012
34 arrested for sexual offences
The Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) is reporting that 34 persons were arrested for various sexual offences over an 11-day period. The offences include rape, carnal abuse and incest. Additionally, CISOCA…