Caribbean Fever's Blog – October 2018 Archive (76)

An audience member on popular talk show The Wendy Williams Showput her boyfriend on blast for getting married to his female best friend, all the while carrying on their two-year relationship.

She claimed she was invited for the…

CCJ to Rule on Validity of Guyana’s Law Against Cross-Dressing

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the opposite sex for an “improper purpose”, is unconstitutional.

The law, Section 153(1)(xlvii) of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act – enacted in…

Trump talks of plan to end birthright citizenship {VIDEO}

• New rule will curtail asylum applications by almost all immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a key element of his hardline immigration policies 
• The American Civil Liberties Union and others challenged the administration's policy in federal court…

Tyga Feat. Nicki Minaj – “Dip” | Official Music Video

• Student was shot and killed in an altercation that was broadcast on Instagram
• Butler High School in Matthews, North Carolina was on lock-down Monday morning after a shooting 'believed to be an isolated incident' at 7.15am  
• Law…

MINISTER OF CULTURE, GENDER, ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORT OLIVIA GRANGE (RIGHT), IN LIGHT CONVERSATION WITH TOURISM MINISTER EDMUND BARTLETT. (CREDIT: JIS)

The Jamaica Government will know next month whether it has been successful in its efforts to have reggae music inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural…

Some of the Caribbean’s citizenship and residence programmes have raised the eyebrows of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The Paris-based organization yesterday released a list of 21 countries, nine of them in the Caribbean, that offer “golden passports” or visas that could help people evade tax.

Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada,…

Bodies of two young women duct-taped together and found washed up in NYC's Hudson River in suspected suicide pact are identified as missing sisters, 16, and 22, from Virginia

On Thursday morning, a dead body was found floating in the waters of the Brooklyn, police confirmed. And the body was of a female of apparent Middle Eastern descent.

'I'm going in': Synagogue shooting suspect 'opened fire with an AR-15 on a BABY naming ceremony yelling "All Jews must die"', killing 11, injuring 6 - including 4 cops

• Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto said an armed guard would not have helped stop Saturday's shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue…

Roland Martin Educates Megyn Kelly And The Nation On Why Blackface Is Wrong

NBC announced on Friday that they had finalized the terms of Kelly’s exit, only two short…

MAGAbomber sent all 10 pipe bombs via a major mailing facility in Opa-locka, Florida - the largest distribution center in Miami-Dade County

• Cesar Altier Sayoc, 56, was taken into custody on Friday morning in Plantation, Florida
• He is an avid Trump fan with an interest in bodybuilding who says he is a member of…

Nicholas Kyle Hoffman, now 18, was charged with intentional hit and run on one of his classmates - he will serve a 25-year sentence.

Maryland State’s Attorney Wes Adams spoke with the media about the conviction.

“Regardless of what the dispute was before, you don’t use a car — you don’t run somebody down in a way to settle that. That’s just not the way…

‘MIGHTY SHADOW’ DIED IN HOSPITAL DAYS AFTER SUFFERING A STROKE.

Legendary Trinidadian calypsonian Winston ‘Mighty Shadow’ Bailey passed away this morning at the age of 77.

Bailey, who had been ailing for some time, suffered a stroke last weekend and his family confirmed that he died in hospital in the early hours of this morning, days before he…