UK’s flagrant disregard for the rule of law and complicity in segregation of LGBTI people in its Overseas Territories
In May 2017, the Supreme Court of Bermuda established marriage equality for same-sex couples in the case of Godwin-DeRoche v The Registrar General(“Godwin-DeRoche“). The Bermudian court did not use international law but relied on local Bermudian law to hold that…
Justices return dispute over documents for young, undocumented Caribbean immigrants to lower courts
BY NELSON A. KING From Caribbean Life The United States Supreme Court has returned a dispute over documents for young, undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants to the lower courts. The justices indicated earlier this week that U.S. federal courts in…
Trump travel ban dealt blow by San Francisco Appeals Court
From Newsmax President Donald Trump’s restrictions on travel to the U.S. from six mostly Muslim countries, Venezuela and North Korea were largely struck down by a federal appeals court, raising uncertainty as the fight heads for a final showdown at…
Solidarity with Abdellahi and Moussa
From Freedom United Yesterday marked 365 long, brutal days since our friends Moussa Bilal Biram and Abdellahi Matalla Saleck were transferred to a remote and unsafe region of Mauritania – to a prison well-known for housing violent death row inmates…
Johnson & Johnson wins the reversal of a $72 million verdict over a cancer death linked to one of its popular products
By Nate Raymond, Reuters From Business Insider Oct 17 (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday won the reversal of a $72 million verdict in favor of the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer they claimed stemmed…
U.S. Supreme Court declines to review computer hacking cases
By Andrew Chung From Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a growing controversy over who can give permission to access a computer, a debate that goes to the core of what constitutes hacking in this…
Letter to the Editor:
From Anthony M. Wright September 4, 2017 THE BAHAMIAN JUDICIARY HAS FINALLY RELEASED ONE OF MY CRIMINALLY CONCEALED FOR OVER NINE YEARS 4 PAGES COURT TRANSCRIPT FOR MY HEARING 12TH FEBRUARY 2009 BEFORE SENIOR JUSTICE JOHN LYONS RE: THE CRIMINALLY…
Kenya opposition leader sets conditions for new presidential election
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has set conditions for participating in a fresh presidential election, saying he should be given “legal and constitutional” guarantees after the Supreme Court declared last month’s poll as invalid. Odinga said on Tuesday that his…
Letter to the Editor: From Anthony M. Wright
THE BAHAMIAN JUDICIARY HAS FINALLY RELEASED ONE OF MY CRIMINALLY CONCEALED FOR OVER NINE YEARS 4 PAGES COURT TRANSCRIPT FOR MY HEARING 12TH FEBRUARY 2009 BEFORE SENIOR JUSTICE JOHN LYONS to wrightmanthony, Azaria, editor, Elsworth, editor, me, Lucia, newsday, oecs,…
India: Rape victim, 10, doesn’t know she’s pregnant and isn’t allowed an abortion
By Oliver Wheaton From Metro UK Rape victim, 10, doesn’t know she’s pregnant and isn’t allowed an abortion The girl has been told she has a stone in her belly. A 10-year-old rape victim who has been denied the right…