PRESORTED July 2010 STANDARD ® U.S. POSTAGE PAID MIAMI, FL PERMIT NO. 7315 Tel: (305) 238-2868 1-800-605-7516 [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. See tion to facilitate the staging of Caribbean Today’s Jamaica various shows across the Supplement, starting on page 14. island, page 11. INSIDE News ................................................................................2 Arts/Entertainment ......................................................11 Feature ............................................................................8 Health ............................................................................13 Viewpoint ........................................................................9 Jamaica Supplement ............................................14-26 Call Caribbean Today direCT from JamaiCa 655-1479 2 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • JULY 2010 NEWS Guyanese pleads guilty to participating in international terror plot NELSON KING “cause greater destruction became ill. It is now unclear than in the September 11 when he will be tried. NEW YORK – A Guyanese attacks” in New York by using Under the plea agreement national charged in an inter - explosives to ignite a fuel made public on June 29, Nur national plot to blow up fuel pipeline feeding JFK and to has avoided the possibility of lines at the John F. Kennedy destroy the airport and parts life in prison if convicted. He International Airport in 2007 of Queens, the New York City now faces up to 15 years in has pleaded guilty to furnish - borough where the line runs prison, prosecutors said. ing material support to his co- underground. The authorities “I became aware that defendants. said the plot, which the men individuals who I had known “I provided guidance in code-named “Chicken Farm”, were developing a plan that order to assist them in their never got past the planning had as its goal the use of an plan to attack the fuel line at stages. explosive device or material to JFK airport to cause major destroy or extremely damage economic harm to the United TRIAL fuel tanks or fuel pipelines at States,” Abdel Nur told Defreitas and fellow the John F. Kennedy interna - United States District Judge Guyanese, Abdul Kadir, 58, a tional airport,“ Nur told the Dora Irizzary, of Brooklyn former People’s National court, reading from a pre - federal court, one day before Congress parliamentarian, were pared statement. he was scheduled to go on scheduled to go on trial late last “I understand the destruc - trial. Abdel Nur being arrested in Trinidad and Tobago in 2007. month. tion of the fuel and planes was Nur, 60, was extradited The fourth defendant, to cause major economic loss the alleged mastermind, handler at John F. Kennedy Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, in the U.S.,” he added. from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyanese-born Russell International. stand trial. 59, has been granted a sepa - Defreitas, 66, a U.S. citizen, An indictment unsealed in rate trial after he had gone on Æ U.S. prosecutors said he who worked as cargo 2007 said the men hoped to acted as a “go-between” with a hunger strike in prison and No bail for Haitian accused U.S. court overturns life sentence for Jamaican of bomb plot in New York driver linked to deaths of 19 illegal immigrants NEW YORK - A United year. HOUSTON, Texas – A failed to establish that he find merit in other appeals States federal judge has denied The accused claim they United States federal appeals had committed an “act of vio - issues. bail to a Haitian man accused were entrapped by an under - court has overturned the life- lence”, as required by federal of joining three others in plac - cover agent, who proposed without-parole sentence given law. UNCLEAR ing what were described as and directed the plot and then to Jamaican truck driver “We hold that an ‘act of Williams’s attorney Seth bombs outside two synagogues furnished the fake bombs and Tyrone Williams in Jan. 2007. violence’ must involve the Kretzer said he does not know in the Bronx, New York. inactive missile. But Judge In tossing out the life use of physical force”, the what the effect of the Appeals Judge Colleen McMahon McMahon ordered that the sentence, the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court ruled, adding Court decision will be other denied bail to Laguerre defendants remain jailed even Court of Appeals said “Williams’s conduct during the than to lower the penalty to Payen, 27, who is illegally in though “the court is also Williams, whose actions smuggling trip, despicable as it something below life without the U.S., as well as his alleged aware that the government’s resulted in the deaths of 19 was, fell short of the statutory parole. accomplices. case may not be as ironclad as illegal immigrants in south minimum to subject Williams “Williams’s conduct did Prosecutors said Payen it appeared in the hours and Texas in 2003, will return to to the possibility of a death not fall within the scope of the and James Cromitie, 44, Onta days immediately after the federal court for a new sen - sentence. Federal Death Penalty Act,” Williams, 32, and David defendants were arrested.” tence. “Because the evidence he told reporters. Williams, 28, were also plan - Prosecutors had sought was insufficient, as a matter The Appeals Court said ning to shoot a missile at Defence attorneys argued the death sentence for of law, the threshold intent Williams’s reckless disregard planes at the Stewart Air that their clients were not Williams on 19 counts of question should not have been for the safety of 74 immigrants National Guard base near dangerous and should, transporting illegal immi - submitted to the jury, and trapped in a trailer he was Newburgh, in upstate New therefore, be released. grants. It was described as the sentencing should have been pulling through south Texas York, where they reside. deadliest human smuggling done by the district court”, did not rise to the level of All four have pleaded not - CMC attempt in U.S. history. The the judges ruled. conduct necessary to become guilty to terrorism charges and Æ three-judge Appeals Court The court left untouched a death-eligible crime. It said have been in jail for over a panel ruled that the govern - Williams’s sentences of 34 such conduct must involve an ment’s case against Williams years and 20 years that were “overt expression of vio - handed down on related lence”, adding that “negli - charges. gence, no matter how The court also did not extreme, would not meet reverse the capital transport - the requirement”. ing conviction for which he received the life sentence or Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • JULY 2010• 3 NEWS U.S. court overturns deportation order, U.S. alleges another Ponzi releases Jamaican from jail scheme in the Caribbean United States federal assault. The matter was sent Dale filed a complaint WASHINGTON, D.C. – The lated business expenses. appeals court has back to the BIA to render a about the assistant’s behavior, United States Securities and “He concealed his scheme Aoverturned the depor - new ruling. but it was declared “without Exchange Commission (SEC) by issuing phony documents tation order against Jamaican- Since 2005, the U.S. had merit” by the same detention says it has filed charges to investors that led them to born Carlyle Leslie Owen tried to deport Dale. He had official who had denied all his against a U.S. Virgin Islands- believe their investments were Dale, a long time resident of pleaded guilty to attempted requests for release while his based fund manager who used profiting”, the SEC noted, New York who had been aggravated assault following a appeal was pending, the peti - the National Bank of Anguilla adding that it has obtained an locked up for years while bat - shooting in New York. He was tion said. to deposit funds he raised in a emergency court order freez - tling from a variety of illness - locked up although he had “I cannot understand why multi-million dollar Ponzi ing the assets of Spitzer and es – including diabetes, high never been I should have been detained scheme. his companies. blood pressure, asthma and convicted of a for five years and suffer as The SEC said that Daniel According to the SEC’s liver disease. crime before much as I did in a country like Spitzer “perpetrated a complaint, filed in U.S. Dale, 61, was released and had paid this, just because I exercised US$105 million Ponzi scheme District Court for the from the Oakdale Federal $9,000 in resti - my rights to challenge my against investors” and “used Northern District of Illinois, Detention Center in Louisiana tution to the deportation,” Dale told several entities and sales Spitzer conducted the alleged late last month.