By: Bloomberg September 2, 2022 Bancredito founder Julio Herrera was arraigned in San Juan Herrera is accused of bribing former Gov. Wanda Vazquez The Venezuelan financier in the middle of…
Category: CARIBBEAN NEWS AND POLITICS
U.S. Coast Guard Offloads $3.1M In Cocaine Seized In The Caribbean
September 2, 2022 The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare and Caribbean Corridor Strike Force agents offloaded 330 pounds (150kgs) of seized cocaine last week in San Juan, Puerto…
OECS Commission and UNICEF support Capacity Building of U Report Ambassadors in the Eastern Caribbean
September 2, 2022 The U Report Steering Committees from the OECS, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago met in Barbados for a Training Workshop from August 17th to 19th 2022, to…
Justice is never given, it is won: How Eastern Caribbean activists developed the successful strategy to defeat the laws which criminalised LGBT people.
September 2, 2022 For almost 150 years, to be gay in St. Kitts and Nevis was to be criminalised. What the colonial authorities inhumanely labelled “the abominable crime of buggery” has been…
Caribbean American legislators join calls for better tracking of gun sales
September 2, 2022 Three Caribbean American legislators have joined New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other elected leaders in calling on three of the world’s largest credit card companies…
T&T SIGN SECURITY MOU WITH JAMAICA
By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com August 30, 2022 Holness visits TT for 60TH ANNIVERSARY, Talks CSME Trade, Crime and Cybersecurity. Trinidad and Tobago has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Jamaica…
Invest Caribbean Forced To Enforce Trademark On Caribbean Government Backed Website
August 30, 2022 Executives of Invest Caribbean, the 11-year-old global private sector investment agency of the Caribbean, were forced this week to enforce their trademark against Salaudeen Nausrudeen and partners,…
Haiti’s Gangs Engage in Campaigns of Mass Sexual Violence
August 30, 2022 Over fifty women and girls have come forward with harrowing accounts of rape and beatings at the hands of Haiti’s largest gang federation. Gangs engaged in a bloody…
COSIS approves Plan of Action
August 30, 2022 The Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS) approves Plan of Action. Three Heads of Government met virtually on 26 August 2022…
Jamaica’s public service challenge must be met!
By: Staff Writer August 26, 2022 Nigel Clarke, minister for finance and the public service in Jamaica, said public sector compensation is “too complicated” because there are just so many…
Update on Investigation of the vessel Alfa Nero
August 26, 2022 Antigua and Barbuda’s Foreign Minister, the Honourable E. Paul “Chet” Greene today issued the following further information on the investigation of the Russian-owned Super Yacht, Alfa Nero.…