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Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica, sends waves Cayman’s way
All eyes are on Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa makes its way across the island. Melissa is the most intense storm so far this year, with winds over 185 miles per hour, bringing destructive winds and devastating floods.
Compass TV covered the storm’s impact on Jamaica and its effects here in Cayman and on the Sister Islands as well.
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Bail refused as Venezuelan pilot awaits US extradition decision
A Venezuelan man suspected by US authorities of being involved in a drug cartel must remain in prison in the Cayman Islands while awaiting the outcome of his extradition appeal, a judge has ruled.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Infante, a pilot, has been held at Northward Prison for six-and-a-half years, after being arrested in Cayman in 2019 on money laundering and smuggling charges, of which he was acquitted, when gold and cash were found on board the private jet he was flying.
Even though he and two other defendants were found not guilty of those charges, Gonzalez Infante continues to be held in Cayman where he is fighting an extradition order to the United States. US authorities want to try him in relation to allegations of his involvement in a plot to smuggle 100 kilos of cocaine into south Florida in 2006.
Gonzalez Infante claims he knows nothing about these accusations and that this is a matter of mistaken identity.
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