Nigeria has agreed to a request by Caribbean leaders to grant former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide temporary asylum, the nation's presidency said Monday...
News Source: cnn.com
Category: News
The news items published under this category are as follows.News: Nigeria grants asylum to Aristide
Monday, March 22, 2004 - 11:39 PM
News: Rastafarian Jah Lloyd dies in Ethiopia
Monday, March 22, 2004 - 01:25 PM
After a lifetime of campaigning for the repatriation of Rastafarians to Ethiopia, their spiritual homeland, Jah Lloyd, the outspoken Rastafarian activist, died last week in that east African country, Sunday Observer sources said. Jah Lloyd, whose real name is Lloyd Young, was in his 60s...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
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News: Latortue wants to attend Caricom summit
Monday, March 22, 2004 - 01:15 PM
Haiti's interim prime minister, Gerard Latortue, who had declared a freeze on his country's participation in the Caribbean Community, now wants to attend this week's summit of regional leaders in St Kitts, Community officials have confirmed...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
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News: To hang or not to hang
Monday, March 22, 2004 - 07:02 AM
It started in 1993 with the Pratt and Morgan judgement. The British Privy Council ruled that it was unconstitutional to execute a convicted prisoner who had spent more than five years on death row. That was the Jamaican case of Pratt and Morgan...
News Source: Trinidad Newsday
News: The legacy of Nappy Mayers
Monday, March 22, 2004 - 06:25 AM
Ever heard the name Richard "Nappy" Mayers?At least you know the song "Bring Back The Old Time Days"...
News Source: Trinidad Express Mix
News: Man shot dead in front of girlfriend
Monday, March 22, 2004 - 06:21 AM
Rebecca Johnson, 21, was standing just a little distance from her boyfriend, Jason La Roache, when he was shot and killed...
News Source: Trinidad Express
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News: Reign of the Mukesh Deyal gang ends in a hail of bullets and a trail of casualties
Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 05:11 PM
In his mind's eye, Rampersad Deyal remembers his sons only in the innocence of their youth. He wants nothing to remind him that outside of home, Mukesh and Sudesh Deyal were cold-blooded multiple murderers, bank robbers, and the leaders of a gang that, during several months in 2001, laid siege to a nation and its police force...
News Source: Trinidad Express
News: Jagger celebrates English cricket success
Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 05:08 PM
After watching England's success against the West Indies cricket team on Friday, British rocker Mick Jagger and a small entourage celebrated at a new, upscale night-spot in Port of Spain...
News Source: Trinidad Express
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News: House committee says Rastas should be able to use ganja as sacrament
Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 05:02 PM
The Joint Select Committee which considered the recommendations of the National Commission on Ganja has recommended that the laws be amended to allow Rastafarians to use small quantities of ganja for sacramental purposes...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
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News: Jamaican gangs using hollow point bullets
Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 04:53 PM
Hollow point bullets, which expand to 160 per cent of its original size upon impact, causing excessive damage in the human body, are among the lethal ammunition being used increasingly by dangerous criminal gangs in Jamaica...
News Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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