(Jamaica Observer) Scores of Jamaicans are believed to be among the 1.7 million illegal immigrants in the United States who have opted to return home in the last two years, rather than endure the harsh realities of a tough American economy and stricter enforcement of immigration policies.
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The diamond industry’s Kimberley Process is failing due to a lack of accountability and follow-up, paving the way for an illegal trade that could see a return of conflict stones to world markets, campaigners said.
Court rules against new boundaries A proclamation of new constituency boundaries in St Kitts and Nevis was yesterday ruled invalid by the courts.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Police in Rio de Janeiro could get 100 million reais ($58.3 million) from Brazil’s federal government to bolster the force after weekend drug violence claimed at least 17 lives and turned parts of the seaside city into virtual war zones.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Controversial dancehall entertainer Bounty Killer has found himself in another run-in with the law.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil wants to forge a common position among all Amazon basin countries for a global climate summit later this year, the country’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said yesterday.
(BBC) Just how much freedom is allowed on the Internet has been tested in a court case in Dominica, in which a former beauty queen contestant has been awarded substantial damages.
(Barbados Nation) Government is proposing a massive increase in the penalty for breaking immigration laws, from the current Bds$5,000 to a maximum of Bds$50,000.
(Trinidad Express) – Two people have died from the influenza A/H1N1 virus, while another death is still being investigated, Minister of Health Jerry Narace said on Wednesday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez’s government said on Wednesday it was taking control of a landmark hotel mangaged by Hilton on Margarita island in another nationalization by socialist-run Venezuela.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Residents of the normally quiet community of Tower Isle in St Mary awoke to a gruesome discovery on Wednesday.
St Kitts court battle Kittitian Prime Minister Denzil Douglas says an ongoing court battle over proposed constituency boundary changes threatens to undermine the country’s democratic process.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the alleged swindler who is being held in solitary confinement in a federal jail, fell ill during a hearing yesterday where a judge denied the U.S.
(Jamaican Observer) Two Jamaican men were slapped with life sentences for the grotesque murder of a Jamaican mother of two, Dorcas Rhule, in a British Virgin Islands (BVI) court last week.
(Barbados Nation) A father of eight was shot and killed by intruders as he closed up at his workplace early Sunday morning.
(Jamaica Observer) Just over 90 per cent of adult Jamaicans surveyed hold the view that a foetus is a human being, a poll conducted by Don Anderson for a pro-life group has found.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda have been bearing the brunt of regional migration.
(Barbados Nation) LIAT (1974) Limited is in line for a US$54 million upgrade of its aircraft fleet.
(Trinidad Express) The State has been forking out an estimated TT$25 million per year to settle hundreds of judicial matters brought by members of the public against police and prisons officers.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Cash Plus boss, Carlos Hill, was on Friday slapped with 15 additional fraud charges and could face trial in the Home Circuit Court, where the penalty is more severe.
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