NASSAU, Bahamas – The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) says it will create a blockade in the southern Bahamas amid reports that a significant number of inmates had escaped from two prisons in Haiti last weekend.
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Hundreds of prisoners escaped from Haiti’s National Penitentiary here, after fighting broke out on Saturday.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - UNICEF says it has received reports that at least two children were fatally shot while fleeing violence in areas controlled by armed groups in downtown Port-au-Prince over the past weekend.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is calling for “an immediate reversal “ of the decision of a high court judge to bar the media and members of the public from the proceedings in the high profile murder case involving a former opposition legislator.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Police Commissioner Don McKenzie, Monday raised the possibility that the owners of a catamaran hijacked last week in local waters may be dead, as the three main suspects appeared in a court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on immigration charges.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis Dr Terrance Drew, got married to a diplomat and attorney from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Diani Prince in Barbados on Saturday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Convicted Jamaican-born King’s Counsel, Vincent Nelson, is seeking TT$96 million in his civil claim for compensation for an alleged breach of an indemnity agreement to protect him from prosecution.
PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti - Lawyers representing Martine Moïse are questioning the motive behind the decision of an investigative judge, who said he found sufficient evidence linking her and 49 other people to the July 2021 assassination of her husband, President Jovenel Moise.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Veteran broadcaster Alan Magnus, who spent more than four decades at the RJR Communications Group has died.
NEW YORK, New York –The Jamaican-American Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams and Michael Alfonso, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Field Office of the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced the unsealing of a complaint charging Bronx, New York-based immigration attorney Kofi Amankwaa and his son, Kofi Amankwaa, Jr., with carrying out a “large-scale” immigration fraud scheme on Caribbean and other migrants.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The police have launched an investigation following the interception of a significant cache of illegal guns and ammunition at the Port of Kingston on Friday.
UNITED NATIONS – A new United Nations human rights report has revealed a spike in violence in Haiti.
Mrs. Marcia Elaine 'Mer' Rigg-Baker, former co-founder and principal of ABI Startime and the Miss Jamaica Florida Pageant, peacefully passed on Monday, January 15, 2024, after a period of ill-health. A native of Jamaica, Mrs. Rigg-Baker was born in Green Island, Hanover, on September 5, 1950.
