By Alicia Cruz, Senior writer, Theblackurbantimes.com
In a country all too familiar with tragedy, the heinous crime Mesac Damas has been accused of comitting has locals in Damas' native, Haiti, sickened and saddened.
“He’s a crazy man,” said Pierre...
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The man whose wife and five children were found murdered in their home is now in the custody of Haitian authorities. Collier County Sheriff’s officials have not officially named 33-year-old Mesac Damas as a...
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In Southern Italy, the city of Naples started to hire ex-convicts as tour guides. The program, "Esco-Dentro" or Exit-Inside, was launched to help ex-cons reintegrate into the society and decrease the crime rate....
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TORONTO - . SAHRA (South Asians for Human Rights Association) held a Round table at a banquet hall in Mississauga on the ongoing issue of Sikhs and other minority internally displaced persons (IDP's) on the...
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68 members of a breakaway faction of the Naples mafia group, the Camorra, have been arrested in Italy as part of ongoing operations against organized crime in the country. Approximately $7 million USD (€5 million) have been seized during the raids. The Camorra has its...
Despite severe crackdown by Italian government, Mafia still operates in a very big way the business affairs of Italy. A latest economic survey has indicated that Italians earns less but number of millionaires is growing fast. Italy's four main mafias have generated business...
Giuseppe Setola, one of Italy's top 30 most wanted fugitives eluded Italian paramilitary police Monday by slipping away through a trap door leading into the sewer system. "On Monday, about 50 Carabinieri...
"New Year's Eve could prove to be something of a damp squib for some men in the Italian city of Naples. Hundreds of Neapolitan women have pledged to go without sex unless their men promise to refrain from setting...
" A month-old baby was sent flying through the air after a car backed into an East Naples apartment at a high rate of speed this week and struck the child’s crib. The baby did not appear to have suffered any...
"An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. "Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift...
One of Italy's most notorious Mafia bosses of its Naples clan has been arrested today whilst out shopping. Adriano Graziano is said to be responsible for the ambush that killed a rival clan member's mother...
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Many years ago I took a train from Naples out to Pompei and even back then was slightly disappointed with it - it felt wrong somehow - the sellers selling cheap tat seemed out of place. I was uplifted though...
Seems like there are more and more stories like this everyday. People being locked in the basement for some odd reason, and they are living in ridiculous conditions and often abused. When they are finally found, 20years has gone by already. Can you imagine being locked up in...
"In January, The Italian army started clearing up the piles of waste in Naples. Local waste dumps, however, were not able to handle the amounts of garbage people generated, and train loads of Napolitana trash went...
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