International soccer, David Beckham, put on his best face on Saturday as he kicked off the Trinidad and Tobago football festival, notwithstanding published reports that he cheated several times with an ex-hooker.
Jurors up until Friday afternoon failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the Buju Banton cocaine trial taking place in Tampa and will resume deliberations on Monday around 9:00 am.
Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, could not stop shaking his head as he listened for a lengthy period as the prosecution played potentially damning recordings of his conversations with government informant Alexander Johnson, discussing drug deals and even diamond smuggling from Africa to Europe.
AirTran Airways today announced plans to expand its popular service to Puerto Rico with twice daily flights from Tampa, Florida. The new flights, which will begin on April 5, 2011, join the low-cost leader's extensive Caribbean schedule, including extremely popular flights to San Juan from Orlando.
Argentine entrepreneur Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster, President & CEO of Basic Energy Ltd., and Haiti-based WIN Group, one of the country's largest enterprises, announced an agreement on Monday to develop a 240-room hotel with conference facilities directly adjacent to Port-Au-Prince's Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport.
The National Weather Service forecasts the center of Hurricane Earl to move into the open Atlantic today, and travel east of the Turks and Caicos Islands later today and tonight.
According to the National Hurricane Center, the center of Earl will pass near or over the northernmost part of the U.S. Virgin Islands this afternoon and evening. Hurricane conditions will be spreading across the northern U.S. Virgin Islands during the next few hours and over portions of Puerto Rico this afternoon. Rainfall is expected to produce total accumulations of 4 to 8 inches with possible isolated maximum amounts of 12 inches. These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
2008, President Barack Obama was elected, among other campaign promises, to bring U.S. combat troops home from Iraq within 16 months. President Obama said, “The best way to press Iraq’s leaders to take responsibility for their future is to make it clear that we are leaving.” Obama pledged to, “seek a new accord on Iraq’s Constitution and governance.”
Today we stand upon the ledge of a nuclear precipice. In less than one week, the much-discussed Bushehr plant will become a full-fledged nuclear energy installation. Although Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has consistently declared that the Bushehr plant will be used to generate, “peaceful atomic energy for the people of Iran,” his inconsistencies are nothing new.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today congratulated the people of Jamaica on the 48th anniversary of their independence on August 6. In her statement, Clinton paid tribute to the contributions of Jamaicans toward building a stronger America, through the bonds of family, commerce and culture.
In spite of lingering economic fears, more than 60% of consumers around the world are planning to spend as much or more on their vacations this year as they did on their last getaways, according to new research with Survey Sampling International's (SSI) global online panels.
Yesterday our government sold us a war, and we bought it because the picture they painted was serene and secure. Today, we see that picture coming into the light, and we find it is not what we imagined it to be. Tomorrow they will ask for our continued support for this war, and they will continue to present us with pictures in an effort to entice our favor, but we should no longer be blinded by the darkness of the pictures they portray.
If Pakistan doesn’t already clearly see the Taliban and al-Qaida as enemies, they never will. America cannot afford to keep handing corrupt governments like Pakistan and Afghanistan a blank check while we have needs at home that go unattended.
On the run for more than two years, Colton A. Harris-Moore, otherwise known as the "Barefoot Bandit" was captured today by the the Bahamas police after a short boat-chase near Harbour Island. Harris-Moore is wanted in the US for a myriad of crimes including aircraft thefts, residential and commercial burglaries, vehicle thefts, boat thefts, bank burglaries and more.
Three persons living in Florida have been indicted by a federal grand jury for the trafficking of 34 Haitians into the U.S. with false promises of lucrative jobs in the Gainesville area, culminating in permanent residency, the Justice Department announced.
A report released today by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has found that, five months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, the relief and recovery effort has stalled, and lack of donor coordination remains a stumbling block to the rebuilding efforts.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her two-day visit to Barbados last week to discuss a range of issues with Caribbean leaders. Top on the agenda was regional security and the increasing rates of crime and violence in the region.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Barbados on Wednesday, following her swing through Latin America which began with her participation at the General Assembly of the Organization of Americas in Lima, Peru.
President Obama recently signed a Proclamation declaring the month of June, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, while paying tribute to the links between the U.S. and the Caribbean, based on geography, history and common aspirations.
Israeli forces on Monday stormed a convoy of boats with thousands of tons of food and supplies headed for the Gaza strip, leaving up to 19 people dead and dozens injured, according to news reports.
The twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago will have for the first time, a female Prime Minister when Kamala Persad-Bissessar takes the oath of office later on Wednesday.
Violence erupted overnight in certain sections of Jamaica's capital for the second straight day as soldiers from the Jamaica Defense Force tried to restore some semblance of order in inner city communities in Kingston and St. Andrew.
In 2007, Mississippi attorney John Arthur Eaves on behalf of more than 7,000 residents of the picturesque, yet heavily polluted, Puerto Rican island of Vieques, filed a law suit against the U.S. government. From 1941 until 2003 the U.S. Navy operated a base there, conducting bombing runs and testing chemical weapons for use in foreign wars, from Vietnam to Yugoslavia to Iraq.
U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton paid tribute on Tuesday to the people of Haiti and Haitians living in the Diaspora communities around the world as they celebrated Flag Day.
Florida's wealthy private county clubs is teaming up with Food for the Poor, the largest international relief organization based in the U.S., to build a new school in Petit Goave, Haiti located 25 miles south of Port au Prince. The new school will educate approximately 125 children ranging in age from 6 to 14 and will consist of six classrooms, two offices and restroom facilities
A 19-year-old Jamaican man who stabbed another man to death with a pair of scissors after a physical fight erupted Tuesday night in front of the Public Library downtown Orlando, has been charged with second degree murder, Orlando Police Department detectives said.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden in a surprise visit toured Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Tuesday to reinforce the United States' commitment to help the island nation recover and rebuild and to send a message of thanks to all of the men and women that have contributed to...
Early on Tuesday, a group of nine Cubans landed on Mona Island, Puerto Rico and surrendered to Park Rangers after making an illegal entry into the a United States territory.
Vice President Joe Biden met with representatives of the Haitian community at the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami on Monday. Biden told the Haitian community leaders that the U.S. is committed to rebuilding Haiti and to rebuilding it better.
Dozens of nations and organizations today pledged almost $10 billion in immediate and long-term aid to help Haiti recover from the recent devastating earthquake, just hours after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a day-long donors’ conference by calling for the wholesale rebuilding of the country.
