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Plane Hijacked in Jamaica

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The Stanford Mess Continues to Unfold in Antigua

The Antigua Sun is reporting that:

Some 77 employees of the Stanford International Bank (SIBL) and Stanford Trust were sent home yesterday, empty handed and with no word as to whether or not they will receive their severances.

SIBL has been a central figure in the ongoing fraud investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The SEC has charged that the Antigua-based SIBL defrauded investors of some US$8 billion through the sale of high yield Certificates of Deposits, otherwise known as CDs.

Trini man flies to London, allegedly kills ex-girlfriend

Paul Hubert Bristol’s rage at his ex-girlfriend was apparently so intense that it endured the process of a trip from Trinidad to England, where she lived, and where he went to allegedly stab her to death.The body of 27-year-old Camille Mathurasingh was found last Friday, in the flat she shared with her parents, by officers who had earlier been to the scene when Bristol, 24, crashed his car after the murder last Friday.

Jamaica not Island Paradise For Gays and Lesbians !!

Essence finally goes there with a good story on the homophobia in Jamaica. Essence reports of horrific acts targeted specifically at the country's gay and lesbian population. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have published detailed accounts of machete-wielding mobs that have broken into private residences attacking men believed to be gay, and lesbians who have been raped by neighbors determined to "cure" them.

Odd deal sends D.C. fire truck, ambulance to Dominican town

IT'S A BIT puzzling that the fiscally strapped D.C. government would want to give away fire equipment. Or that it would pick a beach town in the Dominican Republic as the recipient. Or that it would use a nonprofit group that works with troubled teens to facilitate the transaction. Or that top fire department officials would claim to know nothing about such a gift. Puzzling as they may be, however, these circumstances all appear to be true.
The D.C. government has agreed to donate a firetruck and ambulance worth nearly $350,000 to a Dominican Republic beach town,...The firetruck, valued at $270,000, and the ambulance, valued at $70,000, will be turned over to the anti-youth-violence organization Peaceoholics, which will then turn the vehicles over to Sosúa, a small beach resort town on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.

Prehistoric Drug Paraphernalia Found on Caribbean Island

Yes it looks like getting a high is not a new thing in the region and we have the artifacts to prove it . Around 400 and 100 B.C., according to a report from Nat Geo:

People who colonized the Caribbean from South America about 1,500 years ago brought with them heirloom drug paraphernalia that had been passed down from generation to generation, anthropologists propose.