[caption id="attachment_5599" align="alignleft" width="300"] Buju Banton[/caption]Grammy — winning reggae artiste Buju Banton celebrates his 45th birthday today. The artiste, born Mark Anthony Myrie, is currently an inmate at McRae Correctional Facility in Georgia, United States, where he is serving a 10-year sentence on drug-related charges. Since...
[caption id="attachment_3163" align="alignleft" width="300"] Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne[/caption] Prime Minister Gaston Browne has again threatened to take strong action against “a handful of people in Barbuda”, whom he is accusing of “fabricating strife in order to create chaos and confusion”. This time, he made...
ATTORNEYS representing dancehall artistes Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm are to continue challenging their clients' conviction in the Court of Appeal in downtown Kingston today. The hearing is set for one week. Last Monday the team of Tom Tavares-Finson, Valerie Neita-Robertson, and Bert Samuels began the appeal...
Defence attorneys representing dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel and his fellow murder convicts emerged from the Appeal Court with broad smiles yesterday after being granted permission to introduce fresh evidence to challenge their 2014 conviction. Court of Appeal President Justice Dennis Morrison, along with justices Patrick Brooks...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP)— Scenes of anarchy alternated with tentative signs of a return to normal life in Haiti's capital, with calls for a general strike today after two days of deadly looting and arson triggered by a quickly-aborted government attempt to raise fuel prices. With the...