The husband of a top aide to state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is going to prison for at least five years for a cocaine smuggling conspiracy, officials said Thursday. Orlando Dennis, 31, who […]
NYC: Husband of top aide to Speaker Carl Heastie will get jail time for cocaine smuggling
Jamaica: Man Charged With Murder Of Four-Year-Old, Wounding Father In Trelawny Attack
A man has been charged over the shooting death of four-year-old Chloe Brown and the injury of her father at their house in Freeman’s Hall in Trelawny. Thirty-six-year-old Kevin Williams, otherwise called […]
Crypto & Small Caps Surge, Dollar Shrugs Ahead Of Biden’s Budget Bonanza
When the headline hit last night – from a Biden aide – that Biden’s stimulus spendfest was $2 trillion (or some suggested $3 trillion), markets lurched – bond yields spiked, small caps […]
Bahamas: Davis: PM address a campaign speech, “disconnected from reality”
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Philip Brave Davis yesterday lambasted the prime minister’s national address, labeling it as a campaign speech and not a plan for the way forward. […]
Trinidad & Tobago: Police to monitor virtual fetes, CoP promises ‘flexibility’
Police will maintain an active presence at virtual Carnival events put on by the Trinidad and Tobago Promoters’ Association (TTPA). Police Commissioner Gary Griffith at a meeting on Thursday with the TTPA Executive […]
Suriname: Minister Somohardjo hears bottlenecks of BvBs
Burglaries, carrying equipment and defective air conditioners are some of the problems that Minister Bronto Somohardjo of the Interior Affairs (Biza) had to hear during his visit to the Bureaus for Civil […]
Dominican Republic: Dominican tax amnesty, a scheme to launder money?
Santo Domingo.- The 180 calendar-day period to reap the benefits of Law 46-20 on Transparency and Asset Revaluation, which expired on January 11, was short for a number of taxpayers to access […]
Jamaica: FLA COCK-UP – Agency Pays Out $8m Excess In Termination Benefits In Breach Of Guidelines
The Auditor General’s Department has warned the management of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) that action may be taken against responsible officers for paying out more than $8 million in termination benefits, […]
Staying in Texas. Fleeing New York. Here’s how and where people are moving during COVID-19
The past year saw lots of moving trucks, cardboard wardrobe boxes, and friends pizza-bribed into helping unload U-Hauls, but the destination of the majority of those packing-tape-wielding relocators didn’t have to change […]
Why Ikea just bought an 11,000-acre forest in Georgia
In southeast Georgia, a forest covering nearly 11,000 acres was at risk of being split up and developed. But a conservation organization acquired the land to protect it—and Ikea’s parent company, Ingka […]
