Thursday 9th September, 2010
Walker, critic of US embargo on Cuba, dies at 80
HAVANA -- The Rev. Lucius Walker, who led an annual pilgrimage of U.S. aid volunteers to Cuba in defiance of Washington's nearly half-century-old trade embargo, has died of a heart attack in New York...
Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work
Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues si...
Dog Kicked To Death
A 19-year-old man who allegedly kicked a dog to death causing the animal to be thrown at least 20 feet in the air at the impact of the kick, faced the court yesterday.Charged with cruelty to the anima...
Crooks Steal Gas From Cars
Jamaica StarResidents of Hill View, in a section of Westmoreland, are being targeted by petrol stealing crooks who they say have ventured into their community on at least four occasions in the last two weeks, ste...
Nail technician beaten by woman
Jamaica StarThe man considered to be a well known homosexual who plies his trade as a nail technician in downtown Kingston was once again beaten, this time by a woman, and had to be rescued by the police.
No bail for man with many names
Jamaica StarPhillips was in court yesterday and revealed that he uses many names because he was not formally registered at birth. Resident Magistrate Georgiana Fraser then asked Phillips why he did not attempt t...
Two arrested for ganja seizure
Jamaica StarReports are that an operation was carried out along a section of the Bustamante Highway shortly after 2 a.m. when the compressed ganja was found in a Toyota Corolla motor car with two men aboard. The...
Gunmen rob businessman and daughter
Jamaica StarThree gunmen posing as National Water Commission (NWC) workers held up and robbed a businessman and his daughter at gunpoint on Sunday afternoon. The incident reportedly took place on Leitrim Avenue i...
Seaview man freed of murder
Jamaica StarFailure of the Crown to exhibit sufficient evidence against a man charged with three counts of murder and arson resulted in him being freed yesterday.
Fed-up woman beats brother
Jamaica StarSimone Cameron, a 40-year-old farmer, of Point Hill district, St Catherine, pleaded guilty with explanation to assault occasioning bodily harm when she appeared before Resident Magistrate Marcia Dunba...
Castro: Cuban model doesn't work; Iran should stop anti-Semitism
Earth TimesIran is wrong for disputing the Holocaust.He made his remarks in a two-part interview published Tuesday and Wednesday in the US magazine, The Atlantic."The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore...
Castro casts doubt on 'Cuban model'
CNN(CNN) -- Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that the "Cuban model" no longer works, an apparent admission of failings in the communist economic model introduced by his revoluti...
Fidel Castro accuses Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of antisemitism
The GuardianCuba 's retired president, a longtime critic of Israeli government policy, said Jews had been slandered and slaughtered for centuries whereas Muslims were not blamed for anything.The 83-year-old coman...
Fidel Castro's warnings of nuclear war over Iran get little play in Iran
Sun-SentinelIran have Cuba buzzing with fears of nuclear Armageddon. But the revolutionary icon's alarming predictions have barely registered in the place where it might matter most: Iran. The former Cuban leader...
Officials say sex offenders hide out in Puerto Rico to avoid stricter laws in US
Sun-SentinelPuerto Rico (AP) — Jeffrey Allen Weathers moved from Alaska to an oceanfront apartment in the Caribbean, but his new neighbors soon suspected the heavyset American hadn't come for the sun. The
Fidel Castro Criticizes Ahmadinejad Over Holocaust Denial
Quote.com(RTTNews) - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his anti-Semitic attitudes and for denying the Holocaust, according to an article posted ...
Fidel Castro Calls on Iran to Stop Slandering Jews
VOAFidel Castro speaks during a special session of parliament in his first official government appearance in front of lawmakers in four years in Havana, Cuba (file photo – 07 Aug. 2010)
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