Social / CSR in Caribbean
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JAMAICA, 2016/03/20
A 33-year-old man in Jamaica has been charged with 10 counts of fraud after allegedly cheating students out of US$15,000, claiming he was getting jobs for them overseas.
Andre Bowen is expected to answer the charges of obtaining money by false pretense, as well as fraudulent conversion, in court today.
It’s alleged that while employed by a legitimate agency for recruiting students for work and travel programmes in the United States, he posed as an agent of an unregistered agency and fleeced students of the money.
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JAMAICA, 2015/11/28
A former mayor in Jamaica will come under criminal investigation for giving contracts to friends and relatives, next the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) reversed her decision on the official’s criminal liability.
Contractor General Dirk Harrison had alleged in March that ex Lucea mayor Shernett Haughton breached the public sector procurement regulations and should be criminally charged. But DPP Paula Llewellyn initially dismissed Harrison’s interpretation of the regulations and ruled that Haughton, who is the ruling People’s National Party councillor for the Green Island Division of the Hanover Parish Council, had no criminal charge to answer.
However, yesterday – seven months next her initial decision – Llewellyn said she was wrong.
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BARBADOS, 2015/07/09
A day next calling out public servants to turmoil, the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) has instructed employees its represents at the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) to stop working.
The action – Phase 2 of the industrial action sparked by the forced retirement of workers at the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) – will mean no garbage collection or provision of grave digging services by the SSA.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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CUBA, 2014/12/19
The United States and Cuba are to resume full diplomatic ties, which have been severed for over 50 years. Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced separately on Wednesday, following the release for humanitarian reasons of US citizen Alan Gross, imprisoned in Cuba since 2009 in coincidence with an exchange of three Cubans convicted of espionage in Miami for one unnamed US intelligence investment .
The US, which has had a tight trade embargo on Cuba since 1961, is presently set to announce a loosening of economic and travel restrictions, although limitations will not be lifted all. Any travel that falls into 12 approved categories such as family visits, official government business, and trips for journalistic, educational and research purposes can go ahead fairly easily, inclunding humanitarian travel. But tourism or any visit that does not fall into the 12 approved categories—remains prohibited, White Home sources explained. The wider travel ban can only be lifted by Congress. Obama said he would seek that Congressional approval but will likely face a struggle.
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INDIA, 2014/03/05
Two months next the devastating Christmas Eve rains, St Lucia continues to receive financial and technical support from allies and humanitarian organizations worldwide.
India is the new financial contributor to St Lucia's rehabilitation efforts, with a donation of USD $500,000.00.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony expressed thanks, for such a generous donation on behalf of the Government and People of Saint Lucia.
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CANADA, 2014/03/05
As concerns heighten over the recall of former St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Deputy New York Consul General, Edson Augustus, the Canadian government has announced that it is cracking down on citizenship fraud.
Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said he is reinforcing the government’s commitment to tackling citizenship fraud through measures proposed in Bill C-24, the “Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act.”
“The government is cracking down on citizenship fraud by enforcing stronger penalties for those who do not play by the rules,” said Alexander in a statement.
