Stephen Fray in better days relaxing and chilling before the hijacking incident
Monday, April 20, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
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.
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.
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.
Monday, April 6, 2009
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.
Man rows across Atlantic in 88 days
On March 29 , the 25-year-old from Stamford, Ct., completed his " Row For Hope ," paddling 3,000 miles from the Canary Islands in Spain to Antigua in the Caribbean in the name of cancer research. It took him 88 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Caribbean Island Bans Speedos And Bikinis
THE Caribbean island of Grenada is enforcing an indecent exposure law banning swimsuits away from the beach.
Police commissioner James Clarkson opines:
Police commissioner James Clarkson opines:
THE CARIBBEAN WAY
BRINGING YOU ALL THE WHACKY STORIES, NEWS, STORIES, RORO, POLITICAL TIDBITS FROM THE REGION. FROM JAMAICA TO ST.LUCIA WITH THE PASSION TO GET IT OUT HERE. SO HERE WE GO ON THE POLITICAL FRONT:
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