PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The state is moving to deem a Trinidadian convicted in the U.S. a terrorist and obtain a freezing order of his assets and any transaction done on his behalf. The unprecedented action against convicted JFK bomb plotter Kareem Ibrahim, which is being pursued under the Anti-Terrorism Act, follows the collaborative […]
“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you,” penned murdered student Simone Reid. “In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The redevelopment of the nearly 200-year-old Sam Lord’s Castle into a hotel managed by the world’s largest hotel company will bring with it 3,000 local jobs, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony at the 57-acre site in the eastern parish of St. Philip, he said the new Sam Lord’s […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former national security minister Gary Griffith has called on his successor Edmund Dillon to reject moves to allow the return of Trinidad and Tobago nationals, now fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Griffith spoke after Islamic Front founder Umar Abdullah said he would be lobbying Dillon […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – As world leaders discuss climate change in Paris, Trinidadians recall that an unusually heavy rainfall battered Trinidad’s east coast a year ago, overwhelming a lagoon and flooding a major access road to the island’s south-eastern communities. As the flood waters poured over Manzanilla beach, they washed sand away, caved in […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr has failed in his efforts to get compensation from government for what he said was malicious prosecution for a 1998 murder. Bakr had previously lost a lawsuit which he filed against the state after he was charged in 2010 and then freed because […]
VALETTA, Malta – Following an effective smear campaign conducted on her behalf, “Baroness Shameless” (as Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper named her), aka British Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal, was selected as Commonwealth secretary general by heads of government meeting in Malta. Given that the Commonwealth Secretariat is located in Britain, and the dominant nationality of […]
Researchers from the University of Chicago have discovered a new way to collect samples to determine a patient’s pancreatic cancer, other than relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm. From samples collected from the portal vein – which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – An octogenarian has received Barbados’ second highest honour in this year’s Independence Day Awards. Cynthia Valmai Wilson was awarded the Companion of Honour, given for distinguished national achievement and merit, for her contribution to the cultural life of Barbados. The 81-year-old author and actress has spent over four decades in the cultural […]
Trinidadian Zahra Gomes is the latest recipient of the Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship. She was chosen from a field of six candidates who were interviewed at Government House by the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. Full story in the Caribbean Camera this week
