CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. May 29, 2009: Young and budding entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to hear secrets from `rebel millionaires at the cutting edge of every industry` when Dog Does Tricks production screens the Y.E.S. (Youth Entrepreneurship Society) movie at the upcoming installation of the Barbados Manufacturers` Exhibition. […]
Two Million For Family Of Jamaican Migrant Who Died On Hospital Floor
CaribWorldNews, BROOKLYN, NY, Thurs. May 28, 2009: The family of the Jamaican migrant whose death on a Brooklyn hospital floor created global headlines, will get a US$2 million pay day. New York City`s Health and Hospitals Corporation on Wednesday agreed to pay the family of Esmin Elizabeth Green, who collapsed […]
Popular Haitian Priest Dead At 62
CaribWorldNews, MIAMI, FL, Thurs. May 28, 2009: Haitian rights advocate, Catholic Priest, Father Gerard Jean-Juste, is dead. Father Jean-Juste died Wednesday at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami Herald reports indicate. He was 62. He suffered a stroke recently, Ira Kurzban, the Miami attorney who represented Jean-Juste’s Haitian Refugee Center in several […]
Two Caribbean Ambassadors Slam Obama`s Off-Shore Clampdown Plan
CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Thurs. May 28, 2009: Two Caribbean ambassadors on Wednesday came out swinging at U.S. President Barack Obama`s plan to clamp down on offshore American companies. Bahamas Ambassador to the U.S., Cornelius Smith, speaking at an Inter-American Dialogue event Wednesday was especially critical about aspects of Sen. Carl […]
Trinidad AG Resignation Brings Calls For Finance Min. To Go
CaribWorldNews, PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Thurs. May 28, 2009: The resignation of Trinidad and Tobago`s Attorney General, Bridgid Annisette-George, over a conflict of interest in the investigation into CLICO, has now brought calls for the country`s finance minister to also go. T and T`s opposition wants Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira to also […]
DR National Nabbed For Allegedly Murdering `Husband`
CaribWorldNews, MIAMI, FL, Thurs. May 28, 2009: A national of the Dominican Republic accused of killing her husband in the Dominican Republic a year ago was last week nabbed at her Orlando-area home on administrative immigration charges. Wendy Maria Polanco Gonzalez, 37, was arrested on charges for overstaying her visa […]
LIAT Loses Thousands of Dollars To Sickout
CaribWorldNews, ST. JOHNS, Antigua, Thurs. May 28, 2009: Preliminary figures released by regional airline LIAT on Wednesday show that the carrier lost hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of sickout action by some flight crews on Friday, May 22. `The reports are still coming in, however, the data […]
OAS Working Group To Focus On A Resolution On Cuba
CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Thurs. May 28, 2009: The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States agreed Wednesday to create a working group to try to find a consensus text for an eventual resolution on Cuba. It was the last session of the Permanent Council before the OAS General Assembly. […]
Daughter Of Puerto Rican Migrants Is Supreme Court Nominee
CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. May 27, 2009: Born in a housing project in the South Bronx to parents who migrated to the U.S. from Puerto Rico, Sonia Sotomayor, was on Tuesday named as President Obama`s choice to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor, 54, […]
Guyana Turns 43
CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. May 27, 2009: For the third consecutive year, the Guyana flag was raised over New York City to mark the country`s 43rd anniversary of independence from Britain. The Bowling Green Association of New York and the Committee to Celebrate Guyana raised the flag on Tuesday […]