BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Several Caribbean countries have been named in a new report by Interpol released on Monday showing that hundreds of suspected victims of modern slavery were rescued in a major crackdown on human traffickers in 13 countries. According to the global police organisation, the 350 possible victims of sexual exploitation and forced labour […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A High Court judge in Trinidad and Tobago ruled last week that the part of the twin-island republic’s Sexual Offences Act which criminalizes sexual activity between homosexual men – whether consensual or not – is unconstitutional. And while the local – and regional – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A High Court judge on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old mother to 98 years in jail after she was found guilty of killing her two children by giving them rat poison.. Awena Rutherford appeared before Justice Navindra Singh for sentencing after she had been found guilty last month. The court heard that in […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A four-month old capuchin monkey was taken to court in South Trinidad on Monday. The monkey was an exhibit in a case in which Akiem John of Point Fortin was charged with having the animal without a permit. John pleaded guilty when he appeared before Magistrate Margaret Alert. He told […]
Oxfam formally apologized to Haiti on Monday over the prostitution scandal rocking the aid charity, expressing its “shame” and vowing to do better as it handed over a damning internal report into the allegations. Made public earlier in the day, Oxfam’s 2011 report into the behavior of aid workers sent to Haiti following a devastating […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -A High Court judge in Guyana has sentenced a 46-year-old pastor to 40 years in jail after he was found guilty of having sex with a minor two years ago. “The victim has been grossly violated in every conceivable way. She had to face criticisms and publicity take the stand and recount the […]
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti has been ranked as the worst country for the most overcrowded prisons in the world, according to information released by World Prison Brief (WPB). According to the London-based publication, at the end of January the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country topped the 205 countries surveyed for the most overcrowded […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on Friday agreed to the establishment of a Special Select Committee to look into the issues surrounding the appointment of a police commissioner and a deputy after legislators said they needed further information regarding the nomination of two people for the post by the Police Service […]
WASHINGTON – United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep America’s detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, open. He signed it just before presenting his first State of the Union Address last week, saying that the US must “continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists, wherever we chase them […]
OTTAWA – Canadians vacationing in Montego Bay in Jamaica are warned to stay “within the resort compounds.” Travel Canada issued the warning after the Jamaican government declared a state of emergency last week and deployed military forces to the island’s St. James Parish after a spike in thefts and murders. The Canadian advisory says there have been reports […]
