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NYPD accused of manufacturing misdemeanors for…
NEW YORK, United States, Monday May 6, 2013 – A United States federal civil rights lawsuit claims that New York City police officers routinely stop Caribbean immigrants without cause and then charge…
UK Chancellor welcomes commitments from Caribbean…
LONDON, England -- Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has welcomed news that all those British Overseas Territories with significant financial centres have signed up to the UK…
The IRS is seeking information about US taxpayers…
SAN FRANCISCO, USA -- Late Monday, a federal court in San Francisco granted an order authorising the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a summons seeking information about US taxpayers who…
Hedge fund firm seeks to block Cayman Islands…
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- One of the largest hedge fund services firms in the Cayman Islands is attempting to block reforms that would make the world’s principal offshore location for…
Alternative energy sector vital for Barbados, says…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- The government of Barbados has reiterated that it is moving with haste to build out the island's alternative energy sector now that the policy framework is in place.…
(L-R): Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro…
HAVANA, Cuba -- Cuba and Venezuela signed new cooperation accords on Saturday for 51 projects, as newly elected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, on his first trip to the island since his election…
Guyana-Qatar ties set to take off
QATAR -- Ties between Guyana, Qatar and other Gulf states are poised to reach new heights with the appointment of Dr Odeen Ishmael as non-resident ambassador to Qatar, the world's richest country in…
Troubled Caribbean resort firm applies for…
By Caribbean News Now contributor LONDON, England -- The financially troubled multi-million dollar Caribbean investment firm Harlequin Property has applied for its sales arm to go into administration.…
OECS health officials to discuss electronic…
CASTRIES, St Lucia -- The OECS Secretariat will conduct a workshop in St Lucia from April 22 to 26 to perform the full testing of the operations of an electronic procurement system for the OECS…
PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD (AP)
Ex-world soccer power broker Jack Warner resigned as national security minister of Trinidad & Tobago some 48 hours after a regional soccer group's ethics panel accused him and another top former…
Reported police abuse in Bahamas highlighted in US…
By Travis Cartwright-Carroll Nassau Guardian Staff Reporter NASSAU, Bahamas -- Questionable deaths in police custody and shooting deaths during police operations featured prominently in The Bahamas’…
Four years later, Cayman Islands corruption…
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- Four years after it collapsed in 2009 without any charges being filed, a high-level corruption investigation in the Cayman Islands by London’s Metropolitan Police…
Most Caribbean nationals detained in Miami are not…
FLORIDA, United States, Thursday April 18, 2013 – A new report says that the majority of Caribbean and other nationals detained for deportation in Miami-Dade County through a controversial US federal…
Protester allegedly beaten to death by police in…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Allegations that a man died after being beaten by the police as he took part in a protest against an arson attack on a camp for displaced people in Haiti's capital…
US senate passes immigration bill for illegal…
The bill, by four Democrats and four Republicans, is the most ambitious effort in at least 26 years to repair, update and reshape the American immigration system. WASHINGTON D.C., United States,…