caribbean

Barbados’ Kesia Estwick Wins Her First Mission Catwalk Challenge

Posted by ATACMAG on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:52am in Fashion, Barbados, caribbean, Fashion, Kesia, Mission Catwalk, Trinidad

AGSelectPR, Kingston, Thursday, May 10, 2012:  Barbados gets the top score on episode seven of Caribbean fashion reality series Mission Catwalk where Kesia Estwick designed the winning outfit

Caribbean women being lured into cross-border sex trade

Posted by ATACMAG on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:05am in Other-News, caribbean, prostitution, sex, trade, women

WASHINGTON, DC, USA — Exotic bars and massage parlours have become covers for some of the brutal experiences that women are undergoing as sex workers who are trafficked through the Caribbean,

Trinidad and Tobago:Girl chopped to death, 2 arrested

Posted by ATACMAG on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 9:21am in Health, Other-News, caribbean, death, Shelly-Ann Amanda Pamponette, Trinidad and Tobago

A 17-year-old girl was chopped to death and her boyfriend seriously injured when several men stormed their Valencia home early yesterday morning.

Guyana: Busted drug ring…Wanted Nigerian, cosmetologist refused bail

Posted by ATACMAG on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:24am in Other-News, Africa, caribbean, drug, guyana, nigerian

A Nigerian national and a Guyanese woman were yesterday remanded to jail for allegedly conspiring to post 510 grammes of cocaine via the Georgetown Post Office Corporation (GPOC).

Kartel allegedly participated in beating death of 'Lizard'

Posted by ATACMAG on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 9:36am in Entertainment News, caribbean, Clive 'Lizard' Williams, Jamaica, Vybz Kartel

ENTERTAINER Vybz Kartel allegedly participated in the beating death of his friend Clive 'Lizard' Williams, who, according to the prosecution, was murdered over the disappearance of two guns

Two years on and Haiti still floundering

Posted by ATACMAG on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 9:12am in Health, Other-News, caribbean, Haiti

IN the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, some 2,500 people subsist in a crowded public park near open ditches flowing with human waste, a grim scene frozen in time two years after Haiti's e