A United States appeals court upheld the convictions of two Islamic militants charged with participating in a plot to bomb New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The court declined to throw out a 2010 jury verdict against Guyanese nationals Russell Defreitas, 69, and Abdul Kadir, 61, who were found guilty of conspiracy to carry [...]
Jamaica’s most notorious gang leader, who provoked a virtual state of war in Kingston two years ago when he resisted arrest in the barricaded neighbourhood he ran as his own personal fiefdom, has been sentenced to spend 23 years in a federal US prison. Christopher “Dudus” Coke, 43, was sentenced by a federal judge in [...]