Court adjourns sex case against pastor
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Antigua Sun) – Jamaican-born pastor, Paul Lewis is to return to court on 4 September after the prosecution was successful in getting a court to allow him more time to prepare for the sex-related charges against the US-based pastor.
Lewis is accused of sexually assaulting two teenaged girls in the western parish of Westmoreland in June.
He has been ordered to surrender his travel documents and a stop order has also been imposed, barring him from leaving the country. Lewis, who was invited here by a local church, is reported to have had sex with a 15-year-old girl while her 14-year-old friend watched.
Jamaicans told to conserve water
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Antigua Sun) – The Jamaica government is urging citizens to conserve water as drought conditions worsen across the island. “We are asking members of the public to conserve water as much as they can and to protect the infrastructure out there. There is no point in damaging the water infrastructure as this is expensive and time consuming to replace,” Water and Housing Minister Dr Horace Chang said.
“We also need developers to pay their off-site infrastructure development fees, which many of them seem to find as an unnecessary burden.”
Trinidadian pleads guilty to green card scam
NEW YORK (Antigua Sun) – A Trinidadian national has pleaded guilty to defrauding five members of the Trinidad community in Queens, in what prosecutors said was a green card scam. Prosecutors said Nazim “Tony” Hosein, 38, had promised to “expedite and produce legitimate green cards and other US documents after collecting about US$100,000 from them.” Hosein pleaded guilty Tuesday to fourth-degree grand larceny before Acting Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt.
Union upset over layoffs
(BBC) – A decision by telecommunications company LIME to lay off over 100 employees in Barbados has not gone down well with the island’s largest trade union.
LIME – the Caribbean branch of British firm Cable and Wireless – says its business in the region has been affected by a reduction in tourist numbers.
The company also said the job cuts were part of overall cost-cutting measures.
But the Barbados Workers Union says it is not satisfied with the circumstances surrounding the severance of 116 workers. General Secretary Sir Roy Trotman is threatening a national protest over the matter.
