Priest of Caribbean Santeria religion ‘used HEALING ritual as cover to sexually abuse 16-year-old girl’
By Kieran Corcoran For Dailymail.Com Pablo Pinto Mata, 46, is accused of sex attack against girl in 2013 Allegedly used three-part ritual to dupe her into undressing for attack Mata has business linked to Santeria in Montebello, California The faith…
Sandra Bland’s family files civil rights lawsuit
By Miriam Rozen, From Texas Lawyer The mother of Sandra Bland filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of herself and her daughter’s estate. In her suit, filed in Houston federal court on Aug. 4, the mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, named…
Bayer agrees to $56.9m settlement program for Yaz claims
By Max Mitchell, From The Legal Intelligencer The makers of Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella have agreed to provide nearly $56.9 million to establish a settlement program for plaintiffs claiming they suffered arterial blood clots as a result of taking the…
Birth-defect suits against Zofran-maker pile up
By Amanda Bronstad, From The National Law Journal More than 30 lawsuits have been filed by parents alleging that taking anti-nausea prescription Zofran for morning sickness during pregnancy caused birth defects in their children including congenital heart defects, cleft lip…
Lawsuit filed against US brewery for misleading beer drinkers Red Stripe made in Jamaica
From CARIBBEAN360 CALIFORNIA, United States, Monday August 3, 2015 – A class-action suit has been filed against the manufacturers of Red Stripe beer in the United States, accusing them of deceiving consumers that the beverage is made in and imported…
Caribbean Voice welcomes suicide help lines in Guyana
News Americas, Mon. Aug.3, 2015: The Caribbean Voice and its partners have welcomed the announcement by Guyana’s Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud, that the police force will be launching suicide help lines. “If our understanding is correct, these help lines would…
Cayman Islands: Proactive police stop yields arrests in West Bay
From RCIPS Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:12 AM Yesterday, 13 August, at about 4PM, uniformed officers in West Bay stopped a man while making checks along King Road. They discovered vegetable matter resembling ganja on his person, wrapped in small…
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Community Events RCIPS asks the public to exercise caution when solicited for donations on the street Due to a recent report of potentially illegitimate solicitations for donations by children on the waterfront and elsewhere in George Town, the RCIPS would…
The Movement Against Solitary Confinement
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells From New York Mag Earlier this summer, in considering the appeal of a longtime California death-row inmate named Hector Ayala, Justice Anthony Kennedy set aside the substance of Ayala’s appeal (it had to do with the circumstances…
Police chief fires Texas officer who killed unarmed teen
By Emily Schmall, Associated Press From Business Insider ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A police officer who killed an unarmed college football player during a suspected burglary at a Texas car dealership was fired Tuesday for making mistakes that the city’s…
