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CaribWorldNews, MIAMI, FL, Thurs. May 21, 2009: A 33-year-old Haitian national and green card holder is being held without bail in the deadly migrant smuggling case of May 13th. Jimmy Metellus was remanded to jail yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Ann Vitunac and told he could possibly face the death […]

CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thurs. May 21, 2009: The Director of Public Prosecutions will have to determine whether criminal or disciplinary proceedings should be instituted in the case of a private plane arriving at the Norman Manley Airport on May 14th with large wads of cash, that turned out to be […]

CaribWorldNews, PORt-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Thurs. May 21, 2009: A 66-year-old Guyanese man is set to face a conspiracy charge of attempting to defraud the U.S. government out of some two million dollars. Neville Solomon was this week ordered to be extradited from Trinidad and Tobago to the US after arriving there […]

Commentary By Dr. Randy Persaud CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. May 21, 2009: A debate is taking place in some quarters of the Guyana media as to whether slavery and indentureship were similar.  A `K. Misir, in a recent newspaper letter, argues that, `For all intents and purposes indentureship was […]

CaribWorldNews NEW YORK, NY, Weds. May 20, 2009: The push by Carib ID for a Caribbean origin category on the U.S. Census form continues to gain momentum, with the introduction on Tuesday of a companion U.S. Senate bill. New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kristin Gillibrand on May 19, 2009 […]

CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Weds. May 20, 2009: Haitian Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Ray Joseph, has welcomed the appointment of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, as a U.N. envoy to Haiti. `I think the involvement of President Clinton in Haiti at this time will be beneficial to the country, because […]

CaribWorldNews, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, Weds. May 20, 2009: A Jamaican-born mortgage broker, who fled to Jamaica in 2006, was on Tuesday morning charged with masterminding a multimillion dollar mortgage fraud conspiracy in a Fort Lauderdale court. Yvette Scott Patterson, a former Lauderhill resident, was arrested in Jamaica in March 2008 […]

CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Weds. May 20, 2009: Money transfers to Jamaica have slowed remarkably for the first quarter of 2009, according to the Planning Institute of Jamaica. The Institute on Monday evening revealed that its research and analysis shows remittance inflows for the January to March period dropped by 15 […]

 CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. May 20, 2009: The New York City Council On Monday, hosted another annual Haitian Flag Day ceremony at City Hall. Under the leadership of Speaker Christine Quinn, Council members Matheiu Eugene, Leroy Comrie, Inez Dickens, Kendall Stewart, Thomas White and Letitia James, the Council paid […]

By John Mair CaribWorldNews, WARWICK, UK, Weds. May 20, 2009: Britain’s two most distinguished Indo-Caribbean scholars, Professor David Dabydeen of the University of Warwick and Professor Clem Seecharan of London Metropolitan University, plus the most successful publisher of Caribbean books in the UK, Jeremy Poynting of Peepal Tree Press, have […]