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US$2 million in marijuana seized

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says a joint operation with the Royal Bahamian Police Force Drug Enforcement Unit and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), known collectively as Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), seized 67 bales of marijuana on Little Farmer’s Cay in the Exuma island chain of the Bahamas.
The Coast Guard said the seizure, the second in a week, has a wholesale value is in excess of US$2 million. The seizure, made this week is “a direct result of coordinated US and Bahamian counter-narcotics effort, known as Operation Lion Fish.

US to drop fiber-optic cable to Cuba in 2015

MIAMI, CMC – Top United States military officials say a fiber-optic communications cable linking Florida to the US Naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba will be laid in 2015.
Navy Lieutenant Commander Ronald Flanders, a US Southern Command, spokesman has agreed with the two-year timetable that chief information officer at the US Secretary of Defense’s office, Ronald Bechtold, refered to during his testimony at a military commissions case on Friday.

Spencer: Ashe’s position has positive implications for regional issues

New York – As John Ashe assumed the presidency of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, there was much speculation as to what impact his election would have on the Caribbean agenda – and in particular that of Antigua & Barbuda.
Ashe, who heads this country’s New York-based United Nations mission, has long been a champion for developing countries on a range of issues; but it is his role in the advancement of the climate change agenda that will become the hallmark of his diplomatic career.

United States provides funds to Trinidad and Tobago under CBSI

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The United States is providing Trinidad and Tobago with TT$11.3 million (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) for security assistance programmes through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).
The agreement increases cooperative opportunities between the two governments to develop programmes aimed at increasing citizen security in the areas of juvenile justice, youth development, counter-narcotics, military and police capacity, drug demand reduction, and financial crimes investigations. 

PM makes case for reparations and SIDS at UN Assembly

NEW YORK- A request to have nations that engaged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave begin paying reparations was again issued by Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer during his address to the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Speaking on Wednesday Spencer made the case for Caribbean and other former disadvantaged colonies.

Fighting Said to Continue in Kenyan Mall

NAIROBI, Kenya — The bloody standoff at a Kenyan shopping mall entered its fourth, confused day on Tuesday as government forces said they were picking off the militants who stormed the upscale shopping center, while a group claiming to be connected to the attackers said militants inside the mall were still resisting the government assault.

Furor over controversy surrounding Venezuelan President’s right to travel over US airspace

MIAMI, CMC – Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in the wake of a furor over the United States’ denial then reversal of permission for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to travel over US airspace in the Caribbean.
Calixto Ortega, the highest-ranking Venezuelan diplomat in the United States, said here on Friday the US State Department had denied Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro the right to travel through US airspace in Puerto Rico on his way to China before reversing the decision.

Mighty Sparrow doing well – says daughter

NEW YORK, CMC - The family of Slinger Francisco, widely regarded as the “Calypso King of the World”, says the “Mighty Sparrow” is responding very well to treatment.
Sparrow who was admitted to a New York hospital two weeks ago is no longer in a coma.
“He should be up and about soon but not too soon,” said his daughter Nicole Robinson.

UNITED STATES-CRIME -Legislator condemns murder of toddler of Trinidadian parentage

NEW YORK, CMC – A Grenadian American legislator has added his voice to those condemning an incident that resulted in the death of a 16-month-old toddler of Trinidadian parentage on Sunday night. “Like most New Yorkers, I am horrified to hear of the murder of Antiq Hennis,” New York City Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, co-chair of the New York City Council's Task Force to Combat Gun Violence, told the Caribbean Media Corporation on Thursday. “His death is a stain on the City's soul,” added Williams, who represents the predominantly Caribbean 45th Council District in Brooklyn.

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