Contributor ReportsWould-be hijacker convicted
Posted by: prabirghose
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated Sat Oct 03 13:52:28 -0700 2009 | disasters
Stephen Fray, 21, tried to hijack a Canadian CanJet Boeing 737-800 charter jet from Montego Bay, a tourist spot in Jamaica in April this year. The aeroplane was to proceed to Halifax. He fired in the air with a .38...
ReachHurricane Ida Has Killed 91, Now Headed for U.S. Gulf Coast
Posted by: WordSlinger
San Salvador :: El Salvador | updated Wed Nov 11 15:52:44 -0800 2009 | disasters
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Flooding and mudslides caused by Hurricane Ida has now killed 91 people and dozens are still missing. Most of the people were buried by mudslides or carried away by raging rivers. It has been impossible...
Tension Rising Between Venezuela and Columbia
Posted by: nathanielinbrazil
Caracas :: Venezuela | updated Thu Nov 12 22:58:29 -0800 2009 | disasters
Not one known to pull diplomatic punches, Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez stoked the fire growing between Columbia and Venezuela Sunday during his weekly television show. Chavez announced troop increases to guard the border between the two South American countries in...
Honduran Resistance Urges UN to Act to End Repression; UN Responds
Posted by: BorderExplorer
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | updated Mon Oct 05 14:36:09 -0700 2009 | disasters
"D ay and night, they continually shot at us. We are under a curfew, but even so the people are resisting." ~ Rafael Alegria, Honduran resistance leader The situation in Honduras requires immediate and concrete action from the United Nations,...
El Salvador washes away...again
Posted by: slydog
San Salvador :: El Salvador | updated Wed Nov 11 15:52:44 -0800 2009 | disasters
The tiny & impoverished country of El Salvador has been hard hit with the rians from Hurricane Ida. Flooding and mudslides have innundated many villages and destroyed roads. There have been 91 reported deaths so far. I can remember going...
Ida Batters Nicaragua And Then Weakens
Posted by: AliceCullen
Managua :: Nicaragua | updated Mon Nov 16 09:31:50 -0800 2009 | disasters
Ida weakened back into a tropical storm on Thursday after ripping into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, completely destroying several dozen homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people. Ida, clocking seventy-five mph winds, struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni,...
UCLA student charged with attempted murder
Source: Chicago-Sun Times
Belize :: Belize | updated Wed Oct 14 11:47:52 -0700 2009 | disasters
The district attorney�s office says 20-year-old Damon Thompson will be arraigned Tuesday...Thomas is accused of attacking a female student he was standing next to during the lab at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prosecutors say the attack on Thursday...
Mesac Damas indicted on six murder counts
Source: News Press
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | updated Wed Oct 14 09:54:10 -0700 2009 | disasters
P.M. — A man accused of killing his wife and five young children in North Naples was just indicted by a Collier County Grand Jury on six counts of first degree murder. Mesac Damas, 33, faces either the death penalty...
Closure questions
Source: 7days
Guantánamo :: Cuba | updated Wed Sep 23 18:49:08 -0700 2009 | disasters
With just four months left before his self-imposed deadline to close Guantanamo Bay, US President Barack Obama still faces tough decisions on how to deal with the 226 men left in detention. Opened in January 2002 as a holding facility...
Mother denied say in plea deal for son's killer -- St. Thomas woman ...
Source: The Virgin Island Daily News
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | updated Sat Nov 14 13:31:04 -0800 2009 | disasters
Thomas woman not told of gunman's sentencing date Saturday, November 14th 2009 ST. Bernadette Gonsalves is a mother racked with grief, wrought with despair and robbed of her right to face her son's killer in court. Her son, Issachar Chinnery,...
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