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41,318 Undocumented 

Immigrants Arrested 

“Expedited Removal” mulled by Department of Homeland Security 

By Michael Derek Roberts 

Associate Editor 

Caribbean Times News 

Mass arrests. National dragnet and 

round up. In the first 100 days of the 

Donald Trump Administration, the 

new U.S. President made good on his 

promise to be tough on immigration. 

To date, 41,318 undocumented immigrants 

have been arrested between 

January 22 and the end of April, according 

to a Caribbean Times News 

investigative report. That’s a 38% 

spike in arrests the direct result of 

the new Executive Orders on Immigration 

signed by the president that 

triggered a nationwide crackdown 

on the undocumented. That was a 

campaign pledge made by President 

Trump during the 2016 Presidential 

Elections. 

According to the Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the 

present arrests are up from the 30,028 

carried out in about the same period 

last year. The ongoing dragnet follows 

presidential orders widening 

the scope of who can be targeted for 

immigration violations and removal. 

ICE said that about two-thirds of 

those arrested had existing criminal 

convictions. But more than half of the 

increase in arrests was of immigrants 

who were simply living in the US 

without legal documents. 

Thomas Homan, Acting ICE Director, 

said that immigrants who 

posed a threat to national security 

or had criminal records were still a 

priority for his agency. But he ominously 

warned: “There is no category 

of aliens off the table” (using the pe- 

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PM gets report 

on minister’s 

$92,000 trip 


PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, – Sport Minister 

Darryl Smith has submitted his report 

on a $92,000 four-day Tobago trip to Prime 

Minister Dr Keith Rowley. 

“We await the Prime Minister’s perusal 

and decisions with respect to any such 

report,” Minister in the Office of the Prime 

Minister, Stuart Young, said at yesterday’s 

post-Cabinet news conference. 

The Prime Minister had requested a “full 

report” from Smith on Wednesday, following 

public outrage over the expenditure and 

the size of the delegation that accompanied 

Smith (12) to the Tobago House of Assembly’s 

sports awards ceremony. The report was 

submitted yesterday. 

It is not known whether the Prime Minister 

will act (if at all) on the Smith report 

before his departure for Chile on Sunday 

morning. 

Young said there was no discussion on the 

matter by the Cabinet. 

In response to a question, Finance Minister 

Colm Imbert said there are guidelines for 

the expenditure of public funds and the purposes 

for which public funds can be used and 

Permanent Secretaries are required to adhere 

to them. 

He said these guidelines are contained in 

circulars issued by the Minister of Finance. 

“Each ministry has an accounting officer 

and every accounting officer would have 

guidelines within which they should operate,” 

he said. 

Guyana police deny having 

list with names of 200 persons 

barred from leaving Guyana 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – The Guyana 

Police Force (GPF), today, denied allegations, 

by the opposition People’s Progressive Party 

(PPP), that it had a list, containing the names 

of 200 people, who are being prevented from 

leaving the country, by the Special Organised 

Crime Unit (SOCU). 

In a statement, the GPF described the allegation 

as “a fabrication”, disclosing that the 

number of people who have been prevented 

from leaving the country, over the past 10 

years, stood at 139. 

According to the police, 11 people were 

prevented from leaving the country in 2008; 

11 in 2009; 15 in 2010; five, a year later; 18 in 

2012; followed by 23 in 2013; and 11 in 2014. 

The police said that 12 persons were prevented 

from leaving the country in 2015, 

while the figures for 2016 were 16, and 17 so 

far, for this year. 

“The allegation that 200 persons were 

blacklisted by the Special Organised Crime 

Unit (SOCU) is a fabrication,” the GPF said, 

in the statement, issued one week after efforts 

by an Opposition legislator, to get the police 

to release the names of the persons who have 

been blacklisted from leaving the country. 

The GPF said it should be noted, that the 

list it has released, predates SOCU and the 

number of names on the list includes those 

from the entire Guyana Police Force, as well 

as other law enforcement agencies in Guyana. 

In a recent letter to the media, former attorney 

general, Anil Nandlall, said when he 

was in office, he was very firm in his advice 

to the police, regarding preventing persons 

from leaving the jurisdiction. 

“In fact, I did a legal opinion for the police 

force, outlining the circumstances when 

a person can, lawfully, be prevented from 

leaving the country,” Nandlall said, adding 

that he was forced to do so because a High 

Court Judge awarded damages against the 

State when Immigration Officers at Cheddi 

Jagan International Airport, prevented an entire 

family from leaving the country because 

their names were placed on a list. 

Dominican airline to start 

Jamaica flights this year 

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, 

– The Dominican Republic based airline 

Pawa is scheduled to start flights to Jamaica 

later this year. 

The initiative was sparked by the recent 

visit from Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew 

Holness. 

During one of the many meetings, both 

Dominican and Jamaican business leaders 

urged Holness and President of the Dominican 

Republic Danilo Medina to open direct 

flights between Kingston and Santo Domingo. 

While Pawa is yet to announce the start 

date of flights as well as the frequency, airline 

officials have confirmed that the route will 

start operating in the last quarter of 2017. 

According to local media reports, Pawa 

would become the first airline to fly to the 

capitals of five countries in the Greater Antilles 

– Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and 

the Dominican Republic with Santo Domingo 

as the hub. 

During recent the recent meeting with 

Holness, both Jamaica and the Dominican 

Republic agreed to increase trade, bilateral 

investment, cooperation in tourism and the 

training of teachers and students. 

Holness visited the country on the invitation 

of the Dominican President.

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commentary 

Hillary finally opens up 

Readers, in penning these 

(fortnightly) articles, I am frequently 

compelled to mention 

that it is quite difficult for me to 

stay on sequence and contents, 

because of the ‘Breaking-News’ 

that keeps occurring. 

There is currently a Best-Seller 

(entitled ‘SHATTERED’) out 

there, that is claiming to publish 

revelations about what took 

place during the hours that the 

Clinton campaign learnt that it 

had lost the November eighth 

elections. 

Of course, several of the 

names mentioned in that publication, 

are disputing the accounts 

that were apportioned to 

them. 

Therefore former Candidate-Hillary 

Clinton did significant 

clarification(s) when in 

an interview at a ‘Women for 

Women’ event on Tuesday, May 

second, --she blamed Russian 

intervention, Wiki Leaks and 

the last-minute T.V. appearance 

of (former) FBI Director-James 

Comey for her, and the Democratic 

Party’s defeat. 

Writing from a Human point 

of view, it is quite difficult to 

gauge what could be actually 

passing through the mind of 

Ms.Clinton as she observes the 

debates and fall-outs that are 

proceeding President Trump’s 

(abrupt) firing of Mr.Comey.} 

In that interview, Ms.Clinton 

admitted that her campaign did 

By Carlyle Harry 

make a number of mistakes, she 

concluded”There is nothing like 

a perfect campaign” 

Another plus for the Nominee’s 

disclosures(5/2) is that 

it is in keeping with the advice 

that one would get from 

‘mental-health experts’ from 

the Caribbean who normally 

recommend that “when one 

experiences a death or other 

serious(personal) strategy, one 

should let it out by(for example) 

crying, instead of holding it in, 

or holding on to it.” 

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GETTING OUT THE 

VOTERS 

In contexts of today’s political 

bubbles, blizzards, constituents’ 

outbursts at Town-Hall meetings,and 

debating-effervescences--Analysts, 

Journalists, Commentators, 

Politics’ Forecasters, 

the new Leadership of the Democratic-Party 

as well as optimists 

are predicting that come next 

year November, at the Mid-term 

elections, the Democrats stand 

very good chances of taking back 

Congress; the Senate; State Bodies, 

and Governors’ Mansions. 

They are adding to those contexts, 

the waves of protests and 

civil-disobedience exercises that 

are taking place at several locations. 

Opinion-Writer, Harry Siegel 

has noted that the danger of the 

erosions occurring among the 

Republicans,”is, that it is happening 

drip by drip”. 

However before ‘counting 

the chickens’, the Democratic-Leaders 

and their Candidates 

have to galvanize and mobilize 

their members, supporters and 

well-wishers to go to the polls 

and cast their votes, because as 

the DEMS have discovered last 

year and before, the only thing 

that matters, and the only thing 

that counts is VOTES. 

Upheavals and uproars at 

Republican-Representatives’ 

Townhall meetings over Healthcare 

and related matters, retirements 

of popular Republican 

Office-Holders, the rapid accumulation 

of campaign dollars, 

and Presidential non-acceptance 

from some Never-Trumpers 

should enhance the DEMS’ 

chances, but those chances could 

only be realized with the voters 

turning in their votes. 

It was announced on Monday, 

May 15th. that Ms.Clinton had 

launched a new Political-Group, 

called’Onward Together’ that is 

geared towards activism, organization 

and the recruitment of 

new and competitive candidates. 

The launch of that Group is a 

commendable step, but that can 

also go to nought(zero), if the 

Democratic-Party cannot get the 

voters to the polling booths to 

cast their ballots. 

In the final analysis, talking 

about Winning, and actually 

Winning are totally different 

things. 

The new Leader of the Democratic 

Party Tom Perez and his 

administrative team will soon 

have opportunities to measure 

and test their much advertised 

and promoted strategies for winning 

at three special elections for 

Congress that are going to take 

place shortly. 

IN OTHER WORDS 

After Ms.Clinton’s disclosures 

DEMS must examine the 

future along with their ideas 

for taking back the 

Legislature. 

What however matters 

is getting out their voters 

in large numbers 

to win back the levers of 

power.

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Department 

of Homeland 

Security to 

58,000 TPS 

Haitians: 

You’re out in 

6 months 


BROOKLYN, New York: UP- 

DATE: Caribbean Times News has 

learned that more than 58,000 Haitians 

whose Temporary Protected 

Status (TPS) in the United States was 

due to come to expire this July have 

been given a temporary reprieve. 

While it is not known if the Trump 

Administration is bowing to pressure 

to act humanely in allowing this 

post-earthquake group of Haitians 

to remain in the United States – for 

now. 

“While I welcome this new development 

its still not enough. Thousands 

of Haitian families will still be 

in limbo and subject to the mercurial 

approach to TPS that the Trump Administration 

has exhibited to what is 

a humane and right thing to do,” said 

Cory Provost, District Leader 58th 

Assembly District in Brooklyn. 

He added that just granting this 

traumatized community “only six 

month” is just helping to add to the 

unnecessary stress. Provost, a Haitian-American 

community leader 

in his own right, said that the Haitian 

community in Brooklyn is even 

more fearful and anxious while 

being grateful that families and individuals 

have been granted a six 

month reprieve. 

Secretary of Homeland Security 

John Kelly announced last week that 

he has extended the TPS designation 

for Haiti from July 23 this year 

until January 22, 2018, “after careful 

review of the current conditions 

in Haiti and conversations with the 

Haitian government”. 

Kelly also sent a chilling and ominous 

warning to Haitians impacted 

by TPS who don’t have any other 

immigration status in the US, to be 

ready to leave then because he does 

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new york city’s 

$116M lock up tab 



Caribbean Times News 

The price tag is stupendous and outrageous. 

And its cause to get pissed off and 

go into an expletive laced rant to get this out 

of your system. Get this. New York City is 

spending $116 million a year to keep people 

in jail because they can’t pay “get out of jail” 

bail. New York City’s court system is built on 

the arrested (detained) paying to get out of 

jail and its big business and very lucrative. 

That’s until you realize that thousands of 

poor people can’t make even a pittance bail. 

So that leaves you, me, and Joe Blow down 

the street saddled with the bills for keeping 

people with even very minor infractions behind 

bars, for weeks, months and sometimes 

years. 

The statistics tell the story of a broken 

court system that is so clogged, inefficient, 

and antiquated that on any day of the week 

over 4,000 people are awaiting trial and are 

behind bars. They are trapped in a system the 

prefers to keep them locked up because they 

can’t find the $200 or $300 to “make bail” for 

simple misdemeanors, and issues that land 

them in jail. The Independent Budget Office 

(IBO) [www.ibo.nyc.ny.us] said in a report 

that this huge sum is spent each year incarcerating 

these individuals who have not been 

tried or convicted of a crime. 

Moreover, the report, using the most recent 

2016 data, revealed that the vast majority 

of pretrial detainees sent to New York City’s 

jails last year were booked on misdemeanors 

and nonviolent felonies. These detainees 

could have been released on their own 

recognizance say legal experts. But they just 

don’t have the money to “pay their way out 

of jail.” So they langish there in legal limbo: 

not chaged with a crime, detained and locked 

up as a convicted criminal and at the mercy 

of a system that operates at a snail’s pace and 

“we’ll get to you when we get to you.” 

In fact, the audit also exposed and highlight 

another serious issue plaguing New 

York City’s court system: the stark disparities 

in the population held at jails around New 

York City. These lockups house nearly 10,000 

people each day. Around 7,600 are being held 

pretrial and the rest have been convicted 

and serving sentences of a year or less. More 

alarming is the fact that approximately 90 

percent of all pretrial detainees are men, and 

they’re largely young Black men. The report 

found that of all pretrial detainees booked 

in 2016, 72 percent were given the option to 

post bail. Put another way, the courts decided 

that they were allowed to go free – as long as 

they could afford it. 

Many, the poorest of the poor, could not 

pay and thus the system leaves them to languish 

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letters to the editor 

poetry corner 


FREEDOM OF SPEECH at COLLEGES ! 

Dear Editor, 

U.C.-Berkeley initially would not let Ann 

Coulter appear on campus for fear of violence, 

even at the expense of freedom of speech. 

What have we come to when someone cannot 

speak at a public University that practically 

invented the free-speech movement. 

If the students themselves are creating chaos, 

then they need to be expelled. If it is outside 

agitators, then they need to be arrested for fomenting 

riots. 

The problem across the Nation is a failure to 

protect First Amendment rights. 

Editor, it is not just Ann Coulter at 

UC-Berkeley...In New York City, Fordham university 

prevented a pro-Palestinian group from 

organizing on campus. 

It is offensive that those in opposition would 

hinder or stop the exercise of free speech...I 

may not agree with people’s messages, but they 

have the right to voice them. 

The first Amendment allows us to speak our 

minds, even if the opinions are unpopular. 

 

— Angela L 

DEMS, JUST VOTE ! 

Dear Editor, 

I am a lifelong Dem, my first vote for a 

commentary 

Democratic Party President, goes as far back 

as for J.F.Kennedy. 

I, like many other Dems, am very disappointed 

that Hillary lost, and that Donald 

Trump won. 

But protesting and complaining will not 

help, the only way to win back the White 

House in four years is to vote in our numbers 

for whoever the next Democratic Party’s 

Candidate is. 

Hate is not going to help.The right way to 

do it, is at the polling booths that comes up 

in four years. 

— Carol H. 

LOOKING AFTER THE POOR! 

Dear Editor, 

A Republican Representative from Alabama 

has stated that healthy people should 

be rewarded with low insurance rates, while 

unhealthy people should pay for their nutritritional 

mistakes that made them unhealthy 

by paying much higher rates. 

President Trump is rolling back Michelle 

Obama’s initiative that helped schools give 

children healthy lunches.--How does any of 

this make sense. 

We are putting our children at a nutritional 

disadvantage that may follow them for the 

Dr. Herbert Minnis: New 

Bahamas Prime Minister 

Newly minted Bahamian 

Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’s 

Free National Movement 

(FNM), delivered a crushing 

electoral defeat to a man who 

hitherto boastfully claimed that 

“not even God” could stop his 

victory in the May 10th national 

elections. Such bombast and 

egotism has long been a feature 

of Caribbean politics and is not 

new. But that came to its zenith 

in former Bahamian Prime Minister, 

Perry Christie, 73. Now 

relegated to a pitiful opposition 

party, Christie’s Progressive 

Liberal Party (PLP), could only 

muster 4 seats to the FNM’s 35. 

His political career is all 

but over as he will no doubt be 

blamed for this stunning defeat. 

You can bet that Christie will be 

challenged for the top spot in 

the decimated party by younger 

leaders. It’s a sad conclusion for 

a party and leader that promised 

much but delivered very little 

and who took the electorate for 

granted. Political arrogance, 

grandiose broken promises, and 

coddling of foreigners that most 

Bahamians saw as “buying up 

their country” after the PLP put 

sales tags on choice real estate 

did not sit well with voters. 

The May 10th hotly contested 

elections were riddled with 

allegations of PLP corruption 

and arrogance that dominated 

the public discourse. Christie’s 

ill-conceived comment in a 

largely religious nation helped 

stoke the fire that the electorate’s 

voting was simply a formality. 

This undoubtedly drew the ire of 

the people who responded with 

political vengeance at the polls, 

dealing the cocksure Christie 

a humiliating dose of political 

comeuppance. It was virtually 

the final nail in the PLP’s coffin. 

The extensive delay to the 

opening of the $4bn Chinese-backed 

Baha Mar mega-resort, 

as well as allegations 

of rent-seeking by PLP officials, 

dogged the incumbent administration 

and gave momentum to 

Minnis’ platform for transparency 

and Bahamian ownership of 

the economy. Controversial new 

taxes amid sluggish economic 

performance, rising unemployment, 

and extensive crime 

were also major irritants leveled 

against the Christie government. 

IMF data suggests that The 

Bahamas saw four consecutive 

years without economic growth 

during the Christie administration’s 

five-year term. Baha Mar 

is optimistically expected to 

rest of their lives. 

The only winners here are the Insurance 

companies and fast-food companies. 

I guess this is what it means to have a businessman 

running the country. 

We should be assuring that poor people 

have fresh food available to them just like 

rich people, and we should be assuring that 

children develop healthy eating habits as early 

as possible. 

— Diane C. 

ATTACKING IMMIGRANTS! 

Dear Editor, 

Last month’s incident in which a federal 

Immigration-Agent attempted to enter 

a Queens school, allegedly in search of a 

fourth grader, is only the latest in a series of 

appalling attempts to terrorize immigrant 

families in places where they previously felt 

safe--schools, hospitals, court houses. 

The Department of Education’s policy to 

keep immigration officials out of schools, if 

they do not have a warrant, worked this time, 

exactly as it should, assuring immigrant families 

that our city is doing all it could, to protect 

them. 

— Hector Figuerao 

President, SIEU 32BJ 

contribute to a forecasted 1.4% 

and 2.2% of GDP growth in 

2017 and 2018 respectively, but 

the FNM will now have to deliver 

longer-term solutions to dent 

unemployment and curb the national 

debt, which is expected to 

reach 70% of GDP by the end of 

fiscal year 2017. 

An estimated 180,000 Bahamians 

were eligible to cast their 

vote. 

THE RECOVERY 

Audiences listened to Hillary, 

Audiences learnt from the lady, 

as she protested on T.V. 

After the Secretary’s stories 

where stands her Party? 

She blamed James Comey 

for her opponent’s victory. 

She sought listeners’ sympathy 

for not getting the White House key. 

Comey has now gone, 

but not the Russians, 

There are still investigations 

into their motivations. 

The re-appearance of Hillary 

could spring the energy 

within the Democratic Party 

to battle the GOP. 

In time, audiences will see 

how easy it could be 

for the Democrats’ recovery 

towards Legisaltive majorities. 

 

— Carlyle Harry 

Burj (tower) 

The opulence of Burj Khalifa resides in 

the cavities of the Burj 

A majestic steeple whose apex touches 

the sky 

Interacts with the lit heavens but no 

difference is easily discerned 

Except, a southward gaze reminds me 

of candle flies in a forest 

Arranged in military precision 

with flickering obedience 

Burj Khalifa stands the tallest “At the 

Top & Sky” parenting every giant Burj 

Even the Burj Al Arab, built on a 

triangular man made island in the 

Arabian Peninsula flutters its sturdy 

sail in the stubborn Gulf wind 

Like a chameleon it changes colors 

to camouflage its true opulence 

Its penetrating lean betrays its solitary 

drift under the canopy of the heaven 

True opulence is not in the Burj 

of buildings but in the Burj of the spirit 

The trenchant whisper of the 

human spirit to resist oppression, 

to inspire a smile from a child or 

gratitude from a broken elder, 

to see beauty in the changing 

human colors 

We are all architects in our daily 

encounters, so I choose to construct 

a Burj silhouette: indomitable, 

uncompromising, immovable. 

 

— By Noel Moses

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Inspiring OECS Youth 

Trinidadian Scientist Is Top NASA Space Engineer 



Caribbean Times Newspaper 

The people of the Caribbean, especially 

the region’s young women, and Trinidadians 

in particular, must be very proud of Dr. 

Camille Wardrop Alleyne. As one of NASA’s 

top aerospace engineers and scientists, this 

pioneering woman also works to inspire 

young people in the Caribbean to reach, in 

a manner of speaking, “for the stars. She’s a 

great role model and an example of what a 

singleness of purpose, a dream, and dogged 

determination and perseverance can do. 

Back in 1983, at the age of 17 years, Dr. 

Alleyne left Trinidad and Tobago to study at 

Howard University in Washington, D.C. She 

later earned her Bachelor of Science degree 

in mechanical engineering with an aerospace 

option. Up to that time she had a burning desire 

to work for NASA (The National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration) 

but had to put that on hold for a while. 

Undaunted, Dr. Alleyne pursued a Masters 

Degree at Florida A&M University in mechanical 

engineering with a specialization in 

composite materials. 

The first part of her dream to work with 

NASA came through when she and another 

individual were recruited to work at the Kennedy 

Space Center in Florida. Dr. Alleyne 

worked there for two years as a flight systems 

engineer and then left to attend the University 

of Maryland to pursue another Masters 

degree in aerospace engineering with a specialization 

in hypersonic aerodynamics and 

propulsion. 

Upon graduation Dr. Alleyne was recruited 

to work with the Missile Defense Agency 

under the United States Department of 

Defense where she would remain for eight 

years. There she honed her science skills 

working on several ballistic missile defense 

projects as an aerospace systems engineer. 

These projects included the Ground-Based 

Midcourse Interceptor and Aegis Weapons 

System. The Aegis Combat System is an integrated 

naval weapons system developed 

by the Missile and Surface Radar Division 

of RCA, and now produced by Lockheed 

Martin. It uses powerful computer and radar 

technology to track and guide weapons to 

destroy enemy targets. 

This curious youngster from Trinidad 

with a deep love for space exploration would 

come very close to “going into space” when 

she was shortlisted in NASA’s astronaut selection 

program. After her projects with the 

Department of Defense, Alleyne applied to 

NASA’s Astronaut Program in 2003. Out of 

the 4,000 applicants in the elite program, Alleyne 

made it to the final twelve but did not 

make the final round. 

Now the OECS Commission in the Caribbean 

has partnered with the NASA space 

scientist and founder of the Brightest Stars 

Foundation to motivate girls in the sub-region 

to achieve against all odds. Dr. Alleyne 

will tell her story using the film ‘Hidden 

Figures’ to motivate, inspire and empower 

10,000 girls throughout the Caribbean region 

to work towards their full potential. Her 

message is very simple: dream big dreams 

and know there is no limit to success with 

hard work, determination, focus and a strong 

self-esteem. Here’s how she out it: 

“When you empower and inspire youth to 

believe in themselves and their capacity for 

greatness, they embrace their power to be the 

leaders of tomorrow – leaders who will create 

positive and lasting change in their communities 

and our world.” 

The Eastern Caribbean leg of the 10,000 

Girls Tour aims to host 1,500 girls in each 

island, with a focus on underserved rural 

and urban communities. Dr. Alleyne and her 

team will visit at least 10 Caribbean islands 

by the end of this year. Dr. Didacus Jules, 

Director General of the OECS, has strongly 

endorsed the program saying that “the OECS 

Education Strategy is committed to gender 

equality, and that the promotion of science, 

technology, engineering and maths (STEM) 

was an important element in the educational 

formation of young Caribbean women. 

“We are hopeful that this will ignite a passion 

for the sciences among our girls,” he said. 

Awarded a Caribbean Woman Icon in Science 

and Technology by the National Institute 

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UN-backed Caribbean projects highlight connection 

between life on land and below water 

UNITED NATIONS, New York May 27, 

2017 (CMC) – The United Nations says it is 

supporting several projects in the Caribbean, 

to underscore the connection between 

life on land and life below water. 

As the vital role of the world’s oceans in 

human well-being and development is being 

highlighted, the UN will host a global 

conference, early next month, aimed at 

protecting these resources. 

Yesterday, it said that conserving the 

marine environment is among the objectives 

of its Sustainable Development Goals 

(SDGs), “which seek to achieve a more just 

and equitable world for all people and the 

planet, by a deadline of 2030”. 

“SDG 14, Life Below Water, and the 

Ocean Conference,” to be held from June 

5-9, has particular resonance for countries 

such as Trinidad and Tobago, according to 

Rissa Edoo with the UN Development Program 

(UNDP) in the capital, Port of Spain. 

“The ocean is vital to us, because we are 

a small island developing State,” said the 

National Coordinator for the Global Environment 

Facility’s (GEF) Small Grants 

Program, which has funded more than 100 

projects since 1995. 

“Most of our resources are along our 

coast, and most of our industry is also 

along our coast,” Edoo added. “So, it is very 

important for us to understand the connection 

between life on land and life under 

water.” 

The UN said, among the recipients is 

Nature Seekers, a non-profit organization 

that has become a model for marine conservation 

in the Caribbean, over the past 

27 years. 

The group is based in Matura, a fishing 

village on Trinidad’s north-east coast, 

where nesting leatherback turtles were 

being slaughtered for their meat. Today, it 

said the 2,000 residents “proudly protect” 

the female sea turtles that come to the local 

beach, every March through August, to lay 

their eggs. 

The UN noted that leatherback turtles 

are the largest turtle species on Earth and 

can grow up to seven feet long and weigh 

up to 2,000 pounds. 

Esther Vidale, Project Director at Nature 

Seekers, described them as a “keystone 

species” in the marine environment. 

When Nature Seekers began in 1990, up to 

30 percent of leatherback turtles that made 

it to Matura Beach were being maimed or 

killed by poachers, the UN said. 

Suzan Lakhan Baptiste, the group’s managing 

director and driving force, recalled 

that the beach once resembled a “graveyard.” 

“I live in the community, and when I 

went out onto the beach, I saw all these 

huge turtles with just all the eggs in the 

stomach, with just a few pounds of shoulder 

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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, – Prime Minister 

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medal. Called ‘Historical Botanical 

Gardens - Pure Grenada’ the exhibit 

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gold medal. bringing the number of 

gold medals awarded to Grenada to 13 

over 19 years of exhibiting at the show, 

with three being awarded in as many 

years to Grenada-based co-ordinator/ 

designer, Catherine John, and her team 

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John who has led the design team 

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founded in 1886 and for generations a 

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The multi-layer design emphasizes 

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the Spice of the Caribbean, accented 

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the island’s verdant foliage. 

Brimming with excitement, John 

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very much in the hearts of 

Grenadians, and promotes our islands’ 

extraordinary biodiversity, showcasing 

the different blooms, foliage and spices 

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reinstated and is traveling to New York to 

perform at Groovin’ In The Park, is triggering 

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& CEO Chris Roberts is confirming that the 

rumors are true and Busy Signal will in fact 

be delivering his first major performance on 

US soil at the premier reggae and R&B sizzler 

on Sunday June 25 at Roy Wilkins Park 

in Queens, NY. 

“Music fans in the USA have been waiting 

to see this dancehall mega star in concert for 

a very long time” Robert said. 

“I am happy that this historic performance 

will be delivered on a Groovin’ stage, the biggest 

music platform for reggae and R&B music 

in the US.” 

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decade. Groovin’ In The Park will also feature 

reggae /rocksteady icons Freddie McGregor, 

Ken Boothe, U Roy and Leroy Sibbles with 

Lloyd Parks and We The People Band supported 

by an orchestra with the sweet sounds 

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My Time Inc. hosts Walk-A-Thon in 

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My Time inc., which is celebrating its tenth 

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east 89th. street, Brooklyn. 

My Time inc. supports, educates, empowers, 

and uplifts parents of children who are 

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Free legal services 

Borough Hall is continuing to offer (free) 

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Estates, Elder Law and Government benefits, 

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Movie Night 

Join the Congregation of St. Bernard’s 

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Pre-Father’s Day Dance 

Spice Girls are holding a pre-fathers’ day 

dance and raffle on Saturday, June third, from 

10.00 p.m. at the New Creation Hall, 407, 

Remsen avenue, Brooklyn. For information, 

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The Indo-Caribbean Federation 32nd 

Annual celebration 

The Indo-Caribbean Federation is presenting 

its 32nd. annual celebration in commemoration 

of the 179th. Year of East Indian ar- 

rival in the Americas. 

The event will be held at the Smokey Oval 

park-127th. Street and Atlantic avenue from 

1.00 p.m. on June fourth...For information, 

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The ‘Miles for Melanoma’ hosts 

5K run 

The ‘Miles for Melanoma’ which is continuing 

to take steps to stop skin-cancer is 

holding a 5K Run/Walk from 9.30 a.m. on 

Sunday, June fourth at Eisenhower park. 

Lotus Music and Dance hosts 

‘Drums along the Hudson’ 

Lotus Music and Dance is holding its 15th 

annual ‘Drums along the Hudson’ on Sunday, 

June fourth, from 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. at 

the Inwood Hill park--218th street and Indian 

road. 

The event’s program of activities will include 

drummers, dancers, and arts and crafts. 

The Community Education Council, 

No.18 is meeting from 7.00 p.m., June fifth, at 

the District Office, 106, East 95th, street...For 

more information, call 718-566-6011 

New York City Controller-Scott M.Stringer 

is hosting an event to celebrate Caribbean 

Heritage Month on Tuesday, June sixth from 

6.00 to 8.30 p.m. at the AB1 Dining hall of 

the Medgar Evers College, 1638, Bedford avenue, 

Brooklyn. For information, call 212-669- 

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Free legal services 

NYU’s School of Professional Studies 

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NYU’s School of Professional Studies is 

holding an Undergraduate Information session 

on Tuesday, June sixth, from 6.00 p.m.... 

For information, call 212-998-7100. 

Small Biz training session 

NACC in collaboration with the U.S. Small 

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The training-session will deal with ‘Legal, 

Tax, and Accounting issues.’ 

Business Brunch 

The Caribbean American Chamber of 

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Borough Hall, 209, Joraleman street, Brooklyn....For 

information, call 718-834-4544 

City-Council Member, Mathieu Eugene’s 

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On June, 16th., City Hall is hosting a ceremony 

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Brookdale Hospital hosts annual 

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The Administration of Brookdale Hospital 

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street fair from 11.00a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on Saturday, 

June tenth on Rockaway Parkway. 

The 69th Precinct Community 

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a ‘Unity-Day’, from 12.00 to 6.00 p.m. on 

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New coalition government 

GEORGE TOWN – In a dramatic turn of 

events that has struck out a deal brokered 

on Friday between the two major political 

parties – Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush 

is set to become premier of the Cayman Islands. 

According to Bush – a former Premier – at 

the 11th hour, he formed a “government of 

national unity” with the independents. 

The Cayman Compass reports that shortly 

before midnight, Bush made the declaration, 

stating that he had already written to Governor 

Helen Kilpatrick to rescind the agreement 

that was signed only hours earlier with 

the leader of the People’s Progressive Movement 

(PPM), Alden McLaughlin. 

“This has been a long and tedious election 

campaign with plenty of ongoing discussion 

happening to select who will govern the 

country for the next four years,” Bush said in 

formed in Cayman 

He said the fact that the 

people had chosen more 

independent candidates 

meant they had a mandate 

to make a change 

for the “beloved nation”. 

a statement. 

“After numerous calls from my West Bay 

constituencies and from voters across the 

wider eastern independent representative 

districts, I, William McKeeva Bush and my 

colleagues have therefore withdrawn our 

support for the PPM to form the next government 

and have agreed to form the next 

government with the independent candidates.” 

He said the fact that the people had chosen 

more independent candidates meant 

they had a mandate to make a change for the 

“beloved nation”. 

The coalition creates an 11-person government 

with Bush and his Cayman Democratic 

Party colleagues joining with eight independent 

members. 

Only hours earlier Bush and McLaughlin 

had publicly confirmed a deal to join forces. 

That agreement would have allowed Mc- 

Laughlin to remain as Premier, with Bush 

taking the speakers role and fellow CDP 

member, Bernie Bush becoming deputy 

speaker. 

McLaughlin and Bush both posed for a 

photograph signing the deal and a joint press 

statement was issued. 

However, Bush now says the deal is void. 

Following news of the deal, McLaughlin 

told the Cayman Compass that he had done 

McKeeva Bush 

his best to form a government. 

“I am going to stand back and watch this 

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LENDING & RE-ZONING 

By Carlyle Harry 

Picture below shows Mr.Carlos Ortiz--Director of Consumer-Affairs at New York 

City’s Department of Consumer Affairs addressing the (May) monthly meeting of 

the Flatlands-Flatbush Civic Group. 

When the Flatlands-Flatbush 

Civic Group held its (May) Monthly 

meeting, the primary items on the 

Agenda were Predatory-Lending; 

and the pros and cons of (planned) 

Rezoning that would include parts 

of Flatlands and Flatbush. 

Addressing the effects of Predatory-Lending 

on poor and un-informed 

consumers, the Director 

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City’s Department of Consumer-Affairs--Mr.Carlos 

Ortiz intimated 

that because of the rampant 

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The Director added that another 

source of exploitation, was the high 

rates of interest that were being demanded 

for credit-cards. 

He advised attendees to avoid 

credit-cards that were demanding 

25% and more annual interest 

rates. 

Mr.Ortiz advised households to 

avoid unnecessary bills and debts 

which adversely affecting their 

cash-flow situations, and thus forcing 

them into conditions to take 

loans from predatory-lenders. 

Mr.Ortiz re-iterated the age old 

advice of appealing to consumers 

to thoroughly ‘read the fine 

print’, before finalizing and signing 

loan-agreements. 

He urged participants to carefully 

study promotions and advertisements; 

to fearlessly ask questions 

and seek clarifications; to learn 

their rights; and to avoid taking 

‘pay-day loans’. 

In the questions and answers’ 

period that followed the presentation, 

meeting-attendees raised queries 

around concerns and problems 

that they were experiencing with 

pressures to indulge in loans; hidden 

fees for house-rentals/purchases; 

lay-away plans for the purchase 

of furniture; false information; the 

language of loan-proposals; and 

(unannounced) add-one. 

Mr.Ortiz left a variety of advisory-literature 

for the participants. 

REZONING 

Towards the end of the meeting, 

the Civic-Group’s Public Relations 

Officer, Mr.Gerard Brewster requested 

attendees to pay close attention 

to attempts that were being 

made to implement rezoning-plans 

within Flatlands-Flatbush districts. 

Mr. Brewster spoke about preliminary 

meetings that had already 

taken place within certain Interest-Groups 

in order to pull rezoning 

processes together. 

He urged his colleagues to remain 

on the alert; to maintain communications 

with their Elected-Officials 

and District-Leaders; and to 

be prepared (if necessary) to join in 

protest actions and activities. 

It was brought to the meeting’s 

attention that the Department of 

Education was proceeding its own 

with rezoning arrangements which 

it claimed were geared to more effectively 

serve its students in Flatlands 

and Flatbush districts. 

The DOE is claiming that 

re-zoning had become necessary, 

because of the influx of new immigrant 

populations to the area, and 

massive real-estate development. 

The DOE is using its Office of 

District Planning to spearhead its 

rezoning plans, which are at the 

stage of doing in-depth research 

into community data. 

The ODP has also started to hold 

preliminary information sessions 

with community leaders and representatives. 

Assemblywoman 

issues $8,000 grant 

Assemblywoman Jaime Williams 

is relaying a grant of $8,000 

to the Jewish Community Council 

which mainly serves residents 

of Mill Basin, Marine Park, and 

Flatbush areas. 

The Assembly-Woman represents 

the 59th Assembly District. 

This grant is going to assist the 

Community-Council to continue 

with its job-readiness programs 

in areas like Computer-Literacy, 

the utilization of Social-Media devices, 

professional development 

training, and capacity building. 

In announcing the grant, the 

Assembly-Woman noted”it is important 

to build upon programs 

that will benefit the multitude of 

cultures that make up my district”. 

In expressing its gratitude to 

Assembly-Woman--Williams, 

the Leadership of the Jewish 

Assemblywoman Jaime Williams 

Community Council indicated 

that the $8,000 would help the 

Council to substantially expand 

its diverse social and cultural programs, 

as well as with its collaborative 

work with partners. 

Notifications for Businesses 

New York city’s (public) Administration 

has agreed to establish 

a system for notifying business-persons 

who have complaints 

lodged against them. 

Under a new Law that was recently 

signed by Mayor Bill de 

Blasio, the city’s business-persons, 

especially restaurant and bar-operators 

will be notified within seventy-two 

hours about complaints 

that have been lodged against 

them through 311 calls. 

The operators were calling for 

this notification system, because 

many claimed that they only became 

aware of complaints that 

were made against them, when 

they sought renewals of their licenses. 

The Notifications’ Bill was 

championed by Bedford-Stuyvesant 

Council-Member, Robert 

Cornegy Jr....Mr.Cornegy is also 

Chairman of the City Council’s 

Committee on Small Businesses. 

After the Mayor’s signing of the 

Bill into Law, Mr.Cornegy commented”Today 

marks the end of 

a long road traveled.When I first 

became Chairman of the Committee 

on Small Businesses, I set a 

goal to leave the small businesses 

of our great city in a better place 

that when I started...While the 

city does provide a mechanism 

through which business owners 

can search for rules and regulations--a 

database known as the 

Open Data Portal, the latter has 

not served businessmen well”. 

President and CEO of the 

Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce-Mr.Andrew 

Hoan noted”This 

Bill is the bridge that 

Brooklyn Business owners need 

to receive important information 

quickly and conveniently...When 

service providers can act upon a 

complaint or request in a timely 

manner, it benefits the bottom 

line, the consumer and the rest of 

the community. 

Mr.Rotimi Akinnuoye-0wner 

of a few bars in Bedford-Stuyvesant 

said”The new law is an important 

step in protecting business 

owners”. 


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jorative word “aliens” for the first time in a 

long period to describe undocumented immigrants). 

ICE will also continue to target 

people who have been issued a final order 

of removal by an immigration judge, even if 

they did not commit another crime, he said. 

“Those that enter the country illegally, 

they do violate the law, that is a criminal act. 

When a federal judge makes a decision and 

issues an order that order needs to mean 

something,” Homan stressed. 

Former President Barack Obama was routinely 

criticized for deporting large numbers 

of undocumented immigrants most of whom 

were recent illegal border crossers. President 

Trump’s signature campaign pledge to build 

an expanded wall on the US-Mexico border 

to keep out undocumented border crossers is 

still in limbo because Congress recently denied 

funding for it in a budget deal to keep 

the federal government functioning. However, 

his tough rhetoric on border security appears 

to be having an impact on immigration 

enforcement. The number of people caught 

crossing the border with Mexico is down significantly 

since the beginning of the year, according 

to information from the US Customs 

and Border Protection data. 

Immigration advocates have raised concerns 

about the ramped up heavy enforcement 

raids and round ups across the country. 

While roughly 75 percent of those arrested 

were convicted of non-immigration offenses, 

approximately 10,800 were non-criminal arrests, 

up more than 150 percent from 2016. 

This spike in mass arrests will be a major 

headache for the Trump Administration: The 

big increase in noncriminal arrests will create 

a frenzy in immigration courts that are 

already overloaded, overworked, and backlogged 

with existing cases stretching years. 

In fact, on the one hand the Trump Administration 

is saying that their immigration 

priorities are about arresting and deporting 

the worst of the worst undocumented immigrants 

– including violent criminals and 

gang members. But the reality is that ALL 

undocumented immigrants are now subject 

to arbitrary arrest, detention, and deportation. 

When President Trump took office, he 

admittedly inherited a broken and problematic 

immigration court system. There was a 

backlog of over 500,000 pending cases with 

even basic hearings dragging on for years before 

resolution. As of last April that situation 

has grown progressively worse with a backlog 

caseload now numbering over 585, 930 

cases [Source: Transactional Records Access 

Clearinghouse. www.trac.syr.edu]. 

The increased enforcement is aggravating 

an old problem – not enough judges to 

process the increase in immigration arrests. 

Presently, there are now 318 immigration 

judges nationwide out of 374 positions authorized 

by Congress. Acknowledging this as 

a major fetter and hindrance to his immigration 

deportation plans, in March this year, 

President Trump asked Congress for an $80 

million increase for the Justice Department 

to hire just 75 more immigration judges to 

ease and unblock the bottleneck in the system. 

But that’s not nearly enough. According 

to Human Rights First [www.humanrightsfirst.org] 

the immigration court system 

would need about 524 judges to deal with the 

growing backlog of cases. 

So to bypass this challenge and to whittle 

down the decades old backlog of cases, the 

Trump Administration is now toying with a 

technique called “expedited removal.” This 

would result in undocumented immigrants 

being arbitrarily deported without “due process” 

rights to have their cases heard before 

an immigration judge. While this legal technique 

and strategy has come under fire from 

immigration rights advocates, the Trump 

Administration and the Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS) point to the fact 

that under the Immigration and Nationality 

Act, anyone who arrives in the U.S. without 

valid documents or is apprehended within 

100 miles of the border within 14 days of 

arrival is subject to expedited removal. And 

too, the DHS has the authority to apply the 

expedited process to anyone apprehended in 

the United States if they can’t show they’ve 

consistently lived here for two years. 

jail 


for months or years ― or until their families 

or friends can come up with bail money. Its 

not uncommon for family members of a detainee 

to hold parties, bake sales, and other 

events to make up the bail money. Some are 

even forced to take out personal loans, raise 

money atr usurious costs from “loan sharks” 

and other quasi-legal methods. 

“On an average day 3,931, or 52 percent, of 

all pretrial detainees are being held because 

they are been unable to post bail, although 

at least some would likely be able to do so 

shortly,” the IBO report pointed out. The 

situation gets even worse because this puts 

detainees in a serious bind: if they can’t make 

the bail the prospect of a long stint sitting in 

jail and confined behind bars awaiting trial 

or a hearing is a real possibility. So many 

detainees give up and plead guilty to charges 

even though they did not commit a crime. 

In 2013, just under 5 percent of cases processed 

in New York City were resolved at a trial. 

The odds of a case reaching a favorable outcome 

for a defendant greatly decrease if they are 

held before trial. The norm in New York City is 

that many pretrial detainees remain jailed for 

long periods before trial even though they face 

low-level charges that may result in fines, probation, 

or dismissal. A full third of those unable 

to post bail at arraignment in 2016 faced misdemeanor 

charges, according to the IBO report. 

The fact that lesser charges typically result 

in smaller bail amounts is still a challenge for 

detainees from low-income, poor communities 

where unemployment is rampant. So 

even with these relative low bail amounts it 

doesn’t mean that its an easy path out of jail. 

For many defendants, just a few hundred dollars 

could be the difference between freedom 

before trial and an indefinite jail sentence. 

“The mean bail set for those unable to post 

bail immediately was $39,163 and the median 

bail was $5,000, indicating that for half of 

these individuals bail was $5,000 or less,” the 

report stated. Commercial bail bondsmen 

typically charge a nonrefundable fee of 10 

percent of the total bail amount, meaning 

that $500 would cover a $5,000 bail. 

“This is a system that penalizes the poor 

that had the bad fortune to get involved with 

the law. I’m a strong advocate of closing Rikers 

Island, an overcrowded pigsty of a jail 

that is a blot on the conscience of New York 

City. That is where we dump poor people 

who cannot afford a few hundred dollars to 

“buy their freedom.” This IBO report exposes 

the need for bail reform and for shutting 

down this facility and others that’s draining 

the city’s resources,” Cory Provost, a candidate 

for City Council District 41 said. 

Indeed, the IBO’s report and findings will 

likely bolster calls for changes from critics 

of money bail, who, like Provost, are fighting 

what they call a “two-tiered” system of justice 

that favors the wealthy and disadvantages the 

poor in jurisdictions around the nation. The 

IBO report also confirms that the vast majority 

of people on Rikers Island are there 

because they cannot afford bail, are overwhelmingly 

Black and brown, and many are 

there for nonviolent, low-level offenses — all 

at enormous expense to taxpayers. 

“This report is damning as it tells the truth 

about how bail is structured in the City and the 

urgent need for Mayor Bill de Blasio to speedily 

put in place a comprehensive plan to once and 

for all shut down Rikers Island,” Provost said. 

This March, Mayor De Blasio announced plans 

to shutter Rikers, the city’s largest corrections facility, 

within the next 10 years. 

The $116 million price tag footed by New 

York City taxpayers is jaw-dropping in scope but 

human rights advocates say the real toll is the 

human cost of incarceration, even for the lucky 

detainees whose stay is short. They point out 

that for poor families there is serious devastating 

effects brought about by stress, loss of jobs, loss 

of homes, mental health issues, family disruptions 

and other negative effects. This is particularly 

true when a breadwinner is held in jail for 

long periods with the destruction of the family, 

many become homeless and destitute. 

There is little evidence to suggest that keeping 

most of these low-level defendants in jail before 

trial has any effect on public safety or crime 

rates. There needs to be a 21st century approach 

to incarceration and stop keeping people in jail 

because they can’t find the small amounts of 

money to get out of jail. This system is also costing 

the city in loss of production.

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Jamaica’s largest 

alumina refinery 

to resume 

production eight 

years after closure 

KINGSTON, Jamaica, (CMC) – Jamaica’s 

largest alumina refinery, Alumina Partners 

of Jamaica (Alpart), is set to resume 

production, eight years after its closure and 

sale to the Chinese company, JISCO. 

Alpart’s Assistant Managing Director, 

Patrick James, said production will resume 

on June 20. The mining of bauxite on the 

Manchester Plateau will begin Monday, 

and movement of the ore to the plant will 

commence on June 8 

Last July, UC RUSAL, a leading global 

aluminium producer, announced that 

it had entered into an agreement to sell a 

100 percent stake of Alpart to the Chinese 

state industrial group, JIUQUAN IRON & 

STEEL (GROUP) Co. Ltd. (JISCO). 

The deal was worth an estimated US$299 

and was being undertaken within the program 

for RUSAL’s assets optimization and 

debt ratio reduction. 

James said, that since the sale of Alpart, 

several hundred people have been employed 

and that while employment has risen, 

particularly in the parishes of St. Elizabeth 

and Manchester, there is a shortage 

of high-end engineering skills, since many 

former Alpart employees migrated after 

the refinery closed in 2009. 

Closure of the Alpart refinery came on 

the heels of global financial collapse and 

a slump in metal prices, even as oil prices 

stayed high at that time. 

Alpart is a large production complex in 

Jamaica, which uses its own bauxite mines 

to feed alumina production. 

Before the shut-down of Alpart, from 

2009 to 2015, annual production capacity 

of the complex was 1.65 million tonnes of 

cell-grade alumina and 4.9 million tonnes 

of bauxite. 

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Government minister among 

12 detained in bribery scandal 

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican 

Republic, May 29 2017 – A 

cabinet member and nearly a dozen 

other people including top-level 

officials in the Dominican Republic’s 

government were detained 

Monday in a widening international 

bribery scandal involving 

the Brazilian company Odebrecht, 

authorities said. 

Prosecutors said those implicated 

also include three legislators, a 

former public works minister, a former 

Senate president, two former 

directors of a regulatory electricity 

group and a businessman. They are 

scheduled to appear in court to face 

charges including money laundering 

and illegal enrichment. 

“We can qualify this as an unprecedented 

event because of the 

multitude of crimes and the positions 

of power of those involved,” 

said Attorney General Jean Alain 

Rodriguez. 

Attorneys for Dominican Industry 

and Commerce Minister 

Tamistocles Montas, former Public 

Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua 

and former Senate president Andres 

Bautista and others could not 

St. Lucian firm exporting to Cuba 

Saint Lucia’s leading manufacturing 

company, Baron Foods (St. Lucia) Limited, 

has finally achieved the goal of exporting its 

world class products to Cuba. 

Over the last five years the company has 

attended several trade shows facilitated 

by Caribbean Export and TEPA. Within 

the last two years, Baron Foods (St. Lucia) 

Ltd has been selected by the Trade Export 

Promotion Agency of St. Lucia to actively 

pursue its goal of entering the Cuban market 

with their assistance and the St. Lucian 

embassy in Cuba. 

To date, the company has safely secured 

a business relationship with TRD Caribe, 

which is one of the largest food and beverage 

distributors in Cuba. The first shipment 

be immediately reached for comment. 

The attorney general said he 

would request that the suspects be 

held for 18 months in prison as a 

preventive measure while the investigation 

continues. Rodriguez 

also said he will demand that the 

immunity automatically granted to 

legislators be lifted in this case. 

The suspects were detained after 

Odebrecht told U.S. prosecutors 

that it paid $92 million in bribes 

to Dominican officials since 2001 

was recently sent to Havana. 

Chief Executive Officer of Baron 

Foods-Ronald Ramjattan commented 

“Cuba is a new and emerging market with 

over 12 million inhabitants sharing a similar 

culture and food preferences with the 

rest of the Caribbean. This venture will 

definitely pay dividends and provide employment 

opportunities for St.Lucians; and 

Baron Foods is creating an export path to 

Cuba where other St. Lucian and Caribbean 

companies can follow.” 

Baron Foods is a reputable manufacturing 

company with plants located in three 

Caribbean countries. 

The company currently manufactures 

over 150 products, which include exotic 

to secure 17 key government contracts. 

The company moved its 

“bribery bureau” to the Dominican 

Republic from Brazil several years 

ago and built highways, dams and 

a coal-burning power plant. Con- 


and gourmet sauces, condiments, spices, 

flavorings, low fat mayonnaise, salad dressings 

and drink cocktails. 

The company has a long export-orientation. 

It currently serves markets in the 

USA, Canada, Europe, Guyana and the entire 

English, French and Dutch-speaking 

islands of the Caribbean. 

The company also caters to the needs 

of contract packaging and private labeling 

markets. 

To date, the company employs approximately 

200 employees at its plants located 

in the islands of St. Lucia and Grenada. 

It is now in negotiations to establish a 

factory in Trinidad and Tobago. 


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tles with chops all over and no part thereof 

missing. And I said ‘I have to be a part of 

doing something and curbing this,’” she told 

the UN. 

Since then, Nature Seekers has educated 

the village of Matura about the importance 

of conservation and showed how the turtles 

are a resource that can enhance livelihoods. 

The UN says residents have been trained 

as guides, to patrol the beach to monitor the 

nesting leatherbacks which are tagged, measured 

and weighed, “thus contributing to 

global research on the species”. 

As a result, Matura has become an eco-tourism 

destination, as the group also works on issues 

such as forest management and sustainable 

livelihoods, emphasizing what Edoo called “the 

ridge-to-reef connection”. 

The UN says that today, the greatest threat 

to the leatherback turtles lies in the water, as 

they can get entangled in fishing nets, as by 

catch, a term used to describe species caught 

inadvertently during commercial fishing. 

Through UNDP, Nature Seekers is exploring 

alternative fishing methods, such as using 

Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs), which allow 

trapped turtles to escape from nets. 

Meanwhile, the UN said residents on the 

sister island of Tobago are also working to 

preserve the stunning environment that 

surrounds them. For example, community-based 

organizations, located in the northeast, 

are being empowered in co-managing 

natural resources, the UN said. 

TPS 


not anticipate any further extensions. 

“This six-month extension should allow 

Haitian TPS recipients living in the United 

States time to attain travel documents and 

make other necessary arrangements for their 

ultimate departure from the United States, 

and should also provide the Haitian government 

with the time it needs to prepare for the 

future repatriation of all current TPS recipients,” 

Kelly said in a statement. 

“This mass round up and deportation is 

un-American and an unnecessary and unwarranted 

attack on a defenseless group of 

people that have been law abiding and who 

use TPS to help poor families and relatives 

back in Haiti. Kelly is targeting and singling 

out this community for punitive action. There 

is no other reason,” Provost noted. 

TPS grants short-term work permits and 

reprieves from deportation to immigrants 

from nations affected by disaster, epidemics 

or war. Haitians received that status after the 

2010 earthquake and it was renewed as a result 

of a cholera epidemic and food shortages 

in the French-speaking Caribbean nation. 

Kelly pointed out that Haiti has made 

It said the region is rich in diverse eco-systems, 

with coastal communities bracketed 

between the Main Ridge Forest Reserve – the 

oldest on record, according to the UN cultural 

agency (UNESCO) – and the Caribbean 

Sea. 

“(In Tobago) The site that we are trying to improve 

management to is the North East Marine 

Tobago area, which is the home of the biggest 

brain coral in this part of the world,” said Neila 

Bobb Prescott, of the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO), 

the chief technical advisor for 

a national project, funded by the GEF, covering 

six sites throughout the country. 

“We have just concluded studies showing that 

we have two species of endangered sharks there, 

and the studies show that we have juvenile species, 

so there may be other reasons to pay attention 

to these areas,” she said. 

For the past three years, the UN said the Environmental 

Research Institute Charlotteville 

(ERIC) has been supporting area residents, in 

making informed decisions about their future, 

through taking an active role in contributing to 

natural resource conservation. ERIC is another 

recipient of the GEF Small Grants Program, the 

UN said. 

Aljoscha Wothke, the group’s director and 

chief executive officer, said their activities include 

providing eco-diving training to a handful 

of local fishermen, who then check and monitor 

reefs and sharks. 

“And at the same time, we train them to be 

community communicators, because we believe 

that in small communities, people trust the people 

they grew up with, much more than if they 

get messages from somewhere outside or messages 

that are dropped on them,” he added. 

progress across several fronts since then. 

“The Haitian economy continues to recover 

and grow, and 96 percent of people 

displaced by the earthquake and living in 

internally displaced person camps have left 

those camps. Even more encouraging is that 

over 98 percent of these camps have closed. 

Also indicative of Haiti’s success in recovering 

from the earthquake seven years ago is 

the Haitian government’s stated plans to rebuild 

the Haitian President’s residence at the 

National Palace in Port-au-Prince, and the 

withdrawal of the United Nations Stabilization 

Mission in Haiti,” the US official said. 

He also said he was particularly encouraged 

by representations made to him directly 

by the Haitian government regarding their 

desire to welcome the Haitian TPS recipients 

back home in the near future. Before the expiration 

of the six-month extension, Secretary 

Kelly will re-evaluate the designation for 

Haiti and decide whether extension, re-designation, 

or termination is warranted. 

However, he said there are indications that 

Haiti – if its recovery from the 2010 earthquake 

continues at pace – may not warrant 

further TPS extension past January next year. 

— Compiled and edited by Michael Derek 

Roberts

SPORTS 

Grenadian Emmanuel Stewart Will 

Skipper Windies Under-19 Squad 

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BROOKLYN, New York: reports out of 

the Caribbean say that the Selection Panel 

of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) 

has named the West Indies Under-19 squad 

for tours of South Africa and Zimbabwe. 

The tours are part of the Windies Under-19s’ 

build-up to the ICC Under-19 World Cup in 

New Zealand from January 12 to February 4 

2017. 

The Windies Under-19s are the defending 

champions, having won their first title 

in February, 2016 in Bangladesh under the 

leadership of Shimron Hetmyer. The team 

will be captained by Grenadian Emmanuel 

Stewart with Kirstan Kallicharran as vice 

captain. They were members of the World 

Cup-winning squad from last year. 

According to head coach, Graeme West, 

the squad is well balanced with a number 

of “multi-dimensional” players, which will 

provide depth in all departments. The team 

is still very young in comparison to the previous 

squad, but it’s already a very united 

group that works well together and has a 

great desire to learn and improve. 

“We are going to give 15 talented, young 

players the opportunity to represent the West 

Indies, experience touring overseas and play 

‘Youth’ International Cricket. We learnt a 

great deal about a number of the players in 

the WICB Regional Super50 Tournament. 

This will be another opportunity to find out 

which players have the skill-sets to perform 

consistently at this level and establish who is 

going to stand up when put under pressure 

by quality opponents,” West continued. 

“We want to win both series and establish 

the patterns of play and combinations that 

will be taken into the World Cup. We will 

want to see growth and improvement in 

every game we play and we will want contributions 

from all members of the squad, so 

it will be important that the team acclimatizes 

quickly and gets off to a good start,” he 

added. 

Squads 

Emmanuel Stewart (captain) 

Kirstan Kalilcharan (vice captain) 

Te-Shawn Alleyne 

Alick Athanaze 

Joshua Bishop 

Cephas Cooper 

Mykille Louis 

Darron Nedd 

Matthew Patrick 

Joshua Persaud 

Javor Royal 

Kegan Simmons 

Javier Spencer 

Bhaskar Yadram 

Nyeem Young 

Team Management Unit 

Graeme West (Head Coach) 

Dwain Gill (Team Manager) 

Corey Collymore (Assistant Coach) 

Khevyn Williams (Physiotherapist) 

Zephyrinus Nicholas (Fitness Coach) 

Dinesh Mahabir (Video Data Analys 

Schedule of Matches 

West Indies Under-19s to South 

Africa 

July 

Tue 4: Tour Match vs South Africa Under-19 

XI – Varsity Oval, Durban 

Thu 6: Tour Match vs Kwa-Zulu Natal Academy 

– Varsity Oval 

Sun 9: 1st Youth ODI – Chatsworth Oval, 

Durban 

Wed 12: 2nd Youth ODI – Pietermaritzburg 

Oval, Pietermaritzburg 

Fri 14: 3rd Youth ODI – 

Pietermaritzburg Oval 

Sun 16: 4th Youth ODI – 

Pietermaritzburg Oval 

Wed 19: 5th Youth ODI – 

Chatsworth Oval 

West Indies Under-19s to 

Zimbabwe 

July 

Sun 23: 1st Youth ODI – Venue to be decided 

Wed 26: 2nd Youth ODI – Venue to be 

decided 

Sat 29: 3rd Youth ODI – Venue to be decided 

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london show 


John said: “We’re delighted that the exhibit 

has been awarded a gold medal here in London. 

My personal inspiration for the design 

comes from my love and respect for what was 

achieved in the nineteenth century by the 

Botanical Gardens in Tanteen, St George’s, 

and for the role it played in the life of my island 

home. In addition to providing visitors 

with a treat for all the senses, the Botanical 

Gardens was a centre for research, including 

into the cocoa that is now so highly prized 

on the island by ethical chocolate producers.” 

Patricia Maher, CEO of Grenada Tourism 

Authority, said: “Pure Grenada, the Spice of 

the Caribbean boasts an enthralling natural 

landscape and the design team has once 

again provided visitors to the world’s greatest 

flower show with an authentic taste of the island. 

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is truly 

a world stage and continues to play a prominent 

and acclaimed role in enticing visitors 

to our islands, where they are free to wonder 

at our abundant natural beauty.” 

US vs Trinidad 

Soccer Qualifyer 

BROOKLYN, New York: CARIB- 

BEAN TIMES NEWS has learned that 

United States head coach, Bruce Arena, 

has announced a 27-man squad to 

face Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico in 

World Cup qualifying action on June 8 

and 11, respectively. 

The US squad began a training camp 

in Denver last week before facing Venezuela 

in an international friendly in Salt 

Lake City. Members of the T&T squad 

have been in Denver at a training camp 

since May 23. T&T head coach Dennis 

Lawrence said that he will announce his 

team for the qualifiers later this week 

after assessing the players currently in 

camp at Prentup Field. 

TEAM USA includes 14 players from 

MLS, nine from European leagues, three 

from the Mexican circuit and one (Brad 

Guzan) who is in the process of moving 

to the MLS (Atlanta) from England 

(Middlesbrough). Coach Arena selected 

a larger-than-usual group (27 instead of 

23 or 25) because of a tight timetable - 

two games in four days instead of five as 

Mexico have to play earlier due the possible 

effects of playing at altitude and the 

yellow card situation. 

“I think we have a good group,” Arena 

said in announcing his team. “I’m 

still in the early goings with this team 

and I haven’t seen all of our players, so 

this camp gives me the opportunity to 

see six new faces we haven’t had in with 

the team yet, which is valuable. 

“It’s also great that we’re able to bring 

back 21 players that have been in with 

our program already in 2017. We have a 

roster that has good balance all over, we 

have good young players and hopefully 

it’s a team we can put together to get us 

points in both games.” 

US squad: 

Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Atlanta 

United), Ethan Horvath (Club Brugge), 

Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids), Nick 

Rimando (Real Salt Lake). 

Defenders: DaMarcus Beasley (Houston 

Dynamo), Matt Besler (Sporting 

Kansas City), John Brooks (Hertha 

Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), 

Timmy Chandler (Eintracht Frankfurt), 

Omar Gonzalez (Pachuca), Matt Hedges 

(FC Dallas), Tim Ream (Fulham), 

Jorge Villafaña (Santos Laguna), DeAndre 

Yedlin (Newcastle), Graham Zusi 

(Sporting Kansas City). 

Midfielders: Kellyn Acosta (FC Dallas), 

Paul Arriola (Tijuana), Alejandro 

Bedoya (Philadelphia Union), Michael 

Bradley (Toronto FC), Fabian Johnson 

(Moenchengladbach), Dax McCarty 

(Chicago Fire), Darlington Nagbe (Portland 

Timbers), Christian Pulisic (Borussia 

Dortmund). 

Forwards: Jozy Altidore (Toronto 

FC), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders), 

Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders), Bobby 

Wood (Hamburg) 

scientist 


and Technology in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. 

Alleyne has dedicated over 18 year of her career 

to advancing the areas of aerospace and 

space technology development, specifically 

in the fields of human space flight, ballistic 

missile engineering, space vehicle and weapon 

systems engineering, integration and testing; 

and most recently developing science 

and technology-based solutions for international 

development in addition to global science 

and space education. 

Currently the Assistant Program Scientist 

busy signal 


He climbed reggae/dancehall charts globally 

with his single ‘Step Out,’ which was one of 

the most popular songs in 2005. He followed 

with “Nah Go A Jail Again”, “Smoke Some 

High Grade”, “Tic Toc” and “Unknown Number” 

which was a monster hit stateside and 

in the Caribbean. In 2008 he released “Loaded,” 

a 15-track compilation disc that included 

for the International Space Station, she helps 

the ISS develop programs to attract students 

to STEM (science, technology, engineering, 

and math) fields. She is known for designing 

and developing space vehicles, most particularly 

the Orion crew exploration vehicle, 

which is designed to carry astronauts to the 

moon, Mars, and beyond. 

FOOT NOTE: The film ‘Hidden Figures’ tells 

the true story of the brilliant African-American 

women mathematicians who NASA hired 

in the late 1950s. They were instrumental in 

calculating the flight trajectories that made the 

mission of the first American to orbit the Earth 

– John Glenn – successful. 

“Whine Pon Di Edge”, “These Are the Days” 

and “Hustle Hard”. 

Busy collaborated with Major Lazer and 

No Doubt on the band’s title track from the 

album “Push and Shove.” His other Major 

Lazer collaboration “Watch Out For This 

(Bumaye)”, was a major hit in several European 

countries, earning the World Music 

Award for World’s Best Video and World 

Music Award for World’s Best Song. 

For more, log on to www.groovininthepark.com. 

scandal 


struction of the $2 billion, 720-megawatt plant 

was awarded to Odebrecht in 2013 even though 

the company’s bid was the highest of all those 

submitted and more than $500 million above the 

limit set by the country’s Congress. 

The bribes were part of an overall $788 million 

that Odebrecht paid to officials in 10 Latin 

American countries and two African ones to 

obtain multimillion-dollar contracts with local 

governments. 

While hundreds of charges have been filed 

against high-level officials in Brazil, Colombia, 

Panama and Peru, Monday’s arrests mark the 

first time anyone in the Dominican Republic is 

detained in the Odebrecht case. 

The legislators accused automatically have 

immunity, although one of them, Alfredo Pacheco, 

said he would renounce it and cooperate 

with authorities. 

“I am sure I have not been bribed,” said Pacheco, 

a former president of the Chamber of 

Deputies. 

Odebrecht’s contracts in the Dominican Republic 

since 2001 have totaled $5 billion, or 7 

percent of the Caribbean country’s annual GDP. 

Fifteen of the 17 contracts were awarded during 

the 13-year tenure of President Danilo Medina’s 

Dominican Liberation Party, now led by former 

President Leonel Fernandez. 

Fernandez has refused to discuss the bribes. 

Meanwhile, Medina has created a special commission 

to investigate the bidding process but 

also defended a deal that allowed Odebrecht executives 

to avoid prosecution. 

Medina’s administration has said investigations 

will clear the president and his aides of any 

wrongdoing and show they received no money 

from Odebrecht.

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