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Caribbean leaders call for information-sharing on US deportees
CARIBBEAN Community leaders Tuesday, during a visit from US vice president Joe Biden, raised the matter of criminals in the US being sent back to their native lands in the region. Deportations have been a major issue on the Caribbean’s diplomatic agenda for years
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The scourge of child malnutrition
KINGSTON, Jamaica – WORLDWIDE, hunger afflicts nearly a billion people, many of whom are children. Over extended periods, hunger causes malnutrition, which in turn makes the victims vulnerable to diseases which can result in death. Acute malnutrition threatens the lives of 19 million children, and every year at least 3.5 million of them die from malnutrition-related illnesses. One in four…
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Kamla: US deportees linked to T&T crime surge
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar pointed to the relationship between criminal deportees and increased crime and violence in Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the Caribbean in yesterday’s discussions with United States Vice-President Joe Biden. The Prime Minister noted that one of the major problems being experienced was that many of the criminal deportees would have left the…
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St. Vincent PM welcomes soft loan from ALBA
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA) Bank is making available a US$40 million loan to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Gonsalves told legislators that a delegation from the bank had been here and that the money would be used for the completion of the international airport at Agyle.…
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Parliament approves legislation outlawing terrorist organisations and confiscating assets
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada parliament has approved an amendment to existing terrorism legislation so to confiscate the assets of anyone once the Attorney General is of the belief the asset was gain through terrorist activities. Previously, law enforcement authorities had to prove that the asset was directly link to a terrorist group or gain through the group.…
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Banks in T&T working with US to beat tax evasion
(Trinidad Express) Local banks are on track to being compliant with US tax legislation, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), by next year’s deadline, Bankers’ Association president David Dulal-Whiteway said yesterday. FATCA was enacted in the US Congress in 2010 and is part of that country’s effort to combat tax evasion by US citizens holding overseas investments. “US taxation…
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TT government questions France decision to blacklist CARICOM country
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government is questioning the decision by France to blacklist the oil-rich twin island republic over claims that Port of Spain does not help investigate foreign aid fraud. Paris this week announced that Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica were the only two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries included in the list of…
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