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August 31st, 2022
Police startled by prevalence of sexual violence in The Bahamas

LOOP NEWS

The head of the Domestic Violence Unit of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF), Dellareece Ferguson, has described as “startling” the number of sexual violence cases in the territory.

August 31st, 2022
T&T cops nabs suspect in children’s home abuse 25 years after report

T&T GUARDIAN

PORT-OF-SPAIN, T&T - Twenty-five years after being named as the accused abuser of more than 30 boys at the St Dominic’s Children’s Home, a 51-year-old man was on Friday arrested by police.

August 30th, 2022
High court decriminalises buggery in Saint Kitts & Nevis

LOOP CARIBBEAN

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts & Nevis - The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) Monday upheld a motion by Jamal Jeffers, a self-described gay man challenging the constitutionality that sections 56 and 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act, criminalises buggery and indecent assault against males respectively.

August 24th, 2022
Brazilian police raid pro-Bolsonaro businessmen accused of coup talk

REUTERS

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazilian police yesterday conducted raids targeting several businessmen who have backed President Jair Bolsonaro’s re-election, two sources said, after a media report accused them of discussing the virtues of a coup d’etat if the far-right leader lost the October vote.

August 24th, 2022
Thousands protest in Haiti over crime & inflation

REUTERS

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Thousands of Haitians today joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year high.

August 24th, 2022
T&T's pride parade returns to Port of Spain for 5th anniversary

LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN

Trinidad and Tobago's pride parade returned to the streets of Port of Spain for its third parade, the fifth year of celebrating and supporting the LGBTQIA+ community, over the weekend.

August 17th, 2022
Trinidadians plead guilty to assaulting Grenada athlete

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Trinidadians involved in a brawl on board the Harbour Master which resulted in the beating of Grenadian World javelin champion Anderson Peters pleaded guilty to charges against them in a Grenada court yesterday.

August 17th, 2022
SVG PM to take on role of Minister of Tertiary Education

LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN

Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves will shed the foreign affairs portfolio to take up ministerial responsibility for post-secondary education, replacing Senator Keisal Peters, who has been minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since November 2020, will be promoted to full minister.

August 10th, 2022
St Lucia top cop calls for outside help to tackle crime

ST LUCIA TIMES

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Police Commissioner Milton Desir has acknowledged the need for outside help amid Saint Lucia’s current violent crime wave. The country has recorded 41 homicides this year, including three fatal police shootings.

August 10th, 2022
Cuba brings oil depot fire under control, worst in island’s history

REUTERS

MATANZAS, Cuba – Firefighters finally overcame what officials described as the worst fire in Cuba’s history that over five days destroyed 40% of the Caribbean island’s main fuel storage facility and caused massive blackouts.

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