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Caribbean RoundUp
Bahamas
The Bahamas government has described as “a complete falsehood and an outrageous concoction” a video showing Cuban detainees being beaten by officers at a Bahamian detention center.
Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell said the government has since referred the matter to its lawyers. He said he had seen a copy of the video purporting to show the beating at the detention center and that is from a news broadcast by a Spanish-language TV station in Florida.
“That video is a complete falsehood and an outrageous concoction. We have had the video examined by the Royal Bahamas Defense Force and it is being further reviewed by the Royal Bahamas Police Force,” Mitchell said.
He said that the Royal Bahamas Defense Force has found that the “video appears to be staged, the accent is not Bahami
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Former president of Haiti, priest (b. 1953)
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃bɛʁtʁɑ̃aʁistid]; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian präst and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état.[1][2] As a priest, he taught liberation theology and, as president, he attempted to normalize Afro-Creole culture, including Vodou religion, in Haiti.[3][4][5]
Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies to become a präst. He became a fokuserad point for the pro-democracy movement, first under Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and then beneath the mi
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July
Over the year, Caribbean Intelligence has been rounding up the news on a weekly basis. Here are some of the highlights from those weekly bulletins.
You can also find some of the top news analysis stories listed at the end of this page. Enjoy the catch-up!
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On 13 July, a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder of black teenager Trayvon Martin. The growth of protests in the States took on a civil rights movement momentum. Caribbean-Americans became involved in the protests after the verdict. To read the impact on the Caribbean-American community, check out our story from New York.
The 2013 Transparency International (TI) global corruption barometer was published on 9 July, with Jamaica being the only Caribbean country under the spotlight this year.
Globally, one in four people reported that they had paid in a bribe in the last 12 months in interactions with key public institutions.
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