CARIBBEAN NEWS ROUNDUP – MAY 27, 2019

News Americas, NEW YORK,NY, MON. MAY 27, 2019: Here are the top news making headlines from the Caribbean, Latin America and their Diasporas for this Monday morning May 27, 2019:

Several Caribbean immigrants, including a national of St. Kitts, was among 31 recently rounded up by US ICE in New York.

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake in northern Peru has left one dead and several injured.

The murder toll in the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has now reached a whopping 201.

50 Haitian migrants were nabbed over the weekend by the US Coast Guard on an overloaded boat and sent back to the island.

An undocumented immigrant with a heart condition was recently deported back to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

A former Puerto Rican Olympic athlete and coach has been found guilty of sexual enticement and transportation of a minor.

Jamaican American Kate Campbell is among 34 black women who recently graduated from Westpoint Academy.

Barbados-born Sonita Alleyne has become the first black woman appointed to lead an Oxbridge college in the UK.

Singer Buju Banton thrilled fans in Guyana on Saturday night during a pre-independence performance.

And Guyanese singer Eddy Grant was presented a proclamation by the Mayor Jason Lary of Stonecrest,Georgia.