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[email protected] [email protected] We cover your world Vol. 21 No. 8 Jamaica: 655-1479 THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NEWS MAGAZINE A United States federal appeals court has over - turned the deporta - tion order against Jamaican-born Carlyle Leslie Owen Dale, a long time resident of New York who had been ~ United States law enforce - locked up for years while ment agents are convinced battling a variety of illnesses – Caribbean nationals Abdel including diabetes, high blood Nur, left, and Christopher pressure, asthma and liver “Dudus” Coke are dangerous disease, page 3. men. Both were extradited and are in U.S. custody. Nur, from Guyana, pleaded guilty to involvement in a bomb plot at JFK airport in New York, page 2, while Coke, a Jamaican, is facing illegal guns and drugs charges, page 5. The importance of the Caribbean as a conduit for cocaine imported into the United States has “greatly diminished” over the past 15 years, according to a new report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as traffickers look beyond the region, page 8. Calypsonians in Grenada have ~ Jamaica and Jamaicans are mak - threatened to ing positive strides. Audrey Marks, boycott this right, became the island’s first female year’s carnival ambassador to the United States and celebrations if the Tillman was welcomed by President Barack Thomas gov - Obama. Others with connections to ernment reduces the subven - Jamaica are doing well too.