Former New York City Police Department Officer and Supervisory Committee Member Also Charged With Embezzlement, Fraud, and Controlled Substance Offenses
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice, Sylvia Ash (justice.gov) Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SYLVIA ASH, presiding judge of the Kings County Supreme Court, Commercial Division, and former chair of the board of directors of Municipal Credit Union (“MCU”), was charged in Manhattan federal court with […]
While we patiently or impatiently count down the days until Rihanna releases her long-awaited ninth studio album, our girl just tightened her stranglehold on world domination. Rihanna has announced a new book, called Rihanna, of course, and it’s 504 glorious pages long. The collection, which is billed as a “visual autobiography,” comes out this fall […]
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis addressing the UN General Assembly. (Photo credit: UN/Loey Felipe) NEW YORK, NY, United States – Hurricane Dorian, one of the most destructive Atlantic storms ever recorded, “is a generational tragedy” for The Bahamas, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis has told the UN General Assembly. And he has urged fellow world leaders […]
Amber Guyger (left) said she thought Botham Jean was an intruder in her own apartment By BBC News A US former police officer who shot dead her neighbour inside his own apartment in Dallas has been found guilty of murder. Amber Guyger, 31, argued she killed Botham Jean, 26, after mistakenly thinking she was in […]
CARICOM leaders pose with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during their historic summit in the US. (Photo: CMC) NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — India is providing a US$150 million line of credit to finance renewable energy and climate change-related projects in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), according to a statement issued by the St Kitts-Nevis […]
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES | MARTA OLIVER CRAVIOTTO, Miami Herald Jamaica’s economy is growing at a pace consistent enough to attract foreign investment, experts say. Just seven years ago, Jamaica was an economic basket case. The government was bleeding so much red ink it couldn’t fix potholes or keep streetlights on as it faced a staggering $20 […]
Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak UNITED NATIONS (CMC) – Jamaica says it believes a partnership approach is required in order to generate the type of response needed to create long-term mobilisation of the financial resources small island developing states (SIDS) […]
View of the mass destruction by Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island in the Bahamas. (Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten) NASSAU, The Bahamas, Monday September 16, 2019 – United Nations Secretary General has described the Hurricane Dorian which unleashed deadly power on the Bahamian islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama as more like a “Category […]
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — GENEVA, Switzerland – Honourable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivers the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture at Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, 10 September, 2019. I am humbled to have been invited to deliver the 16th lecture to honor this great development thinker. I am also deeply humbled to […]
(Left to right): Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra, Colombia’s President Ivan Duque, Ecuador’s President Ivan Moreno, Suriname’s Vice President Michael Ashwin Adhin and Minister Trotman in Letecia, Colombia at the historic signing LETECIA, Colombia, Monday September 9, 2019 – Guyana has joined six other Amazonian countries […]
