PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The criminal gang “400 Mawazo” is demanding a US$500,000 ransom for the release of Carlos Guillén Tatis, the agricultural and commercial attaché of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Haiti.
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NEW YORK, New York – Two Caribbean American legislators have expressed dismay over a reported draft United States Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that gave women their constitutional right to have an abortion.
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands – Acting Premier, Dr Natalio D. Wheatley, says Premier Andrew A. Fahie as well as the managing director of the British Virgin islands (BVI) Ports Authority (BVIPA), Mrs. Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard and her son should be “afforded due process” after they were arrested and charged in the United States on Thursday on drug related charges.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – Grenada will no longer be among the islands that Prince Edward and Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, will visit on their six-day Queen’s Platinum Jubilee tour, Press Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister Philomena Robertson confirmed on Thursday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Ministry of National Security’s cybersecurity arm has warned that the country is facing a sharp increase in malicious cyber activity over the past two months and police are urging those affected to come forward with reports of these incidents.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The State University of Haiti (UEH) has condemned the murder of a fifth-year medical student saying that Haiti and the university “are tired of counting corpses in their ranks”.
NEW YORK, New York – New York Attorney General Letitia James says she has collaborated with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in filing a lawsuit against one of the largest international money transfer providers in the United States, MoneyGram International, Inc. and MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc (MoneyGram) for allegedly repeatedly failing to transmit money to Caribbean and other recipients in a timely manner.
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – People took to the streets outside the official residence of Governor John Rankin as they protested the recommendations of a report of a Commission of Inquiry (COI) that that examined allegations of corruption and abuse of office by elected and statutory officials
KINGSTON, Jamaica – An explosion at an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in the town of Port Antonio in the eastern parish of Portland on Saturday, is now the subject of a criminal probe.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua –Prime Minister Gaston Browne will on Thursday receive the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) prestigious Legacy Award for his leadership, which facilitates nation-building, strengthening regional alliances and creating a legacy that future generations can build on.
PHILADELPHIA PA - Prime Minister Andrew Holness arrived in Philadelphia in the United States this afternoon, for a number of engagements in that city as well as in New York where he will launch the US leg Jamaica 60 on Sunday.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government Saturday gave a red carpet welcome to two members of the Britain’s royal family, but a small group of protesters registered their objection to the visit and instead called for reparation for African slavery.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados’ relationship with Rwanda was memorialized on Saturday with the planting of pink and yellow Acacia trees in the National Botanical Gardens by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.