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WHAT WENT WRONG? Woman gets 21 years for murdering Jamaican husband A Florida woman has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for the murder of her Jamaican husband following a heated domestic dispute at their Coral Springs home last year. Denise Nicole Malcolm, 46, pleaded guilty last week to one count of second-degree murder with a firearm, according to court records. She was sentenced to 21 years behind bars, with 285 days credited for time already served in pretrial detention.
Her husband, 52-year-old Rohan Noel Malcolm — a former employee of the Jamaica Observer — was fatally shot multiple times at their home on Northwest 43rd Street on August 31, 2024. The incident occurred after he returned from grocery shopping for a planned Labor Day barbecue. According to an arrest report from the Coral Springs Police Department, Malcolm told investigators she no longer trusted her husband and had grown frustrated over what she described as years of lies and infidelity. The final argument erupted after Rohan told her he was going to Port Saint Lucie with friends, which she interpreted as a cover for seeing another woman. The couple, who reportedly slept in separate bedrooms, had a history of volatile confrontations. On the day of the shooting, a nearly hour-long argument ended in gunfire. Their then-14-year-old son, who had been listening to music in another room, told police he heard “two or three loud bangs” around 6:30 p.m. When he ran to his parents’ bedroom, he saw his father wounded and his mother holding a handgun. He immediately called 911.
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US confirms another travel ban could target four Caribbean nations The United States (US) State Department has confirmed that President Donald Trump is considering a travel ban targeting 36 countries, including four in the Caribbean. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that while she could “speak a little bit about it, not into the detail of what,” the US remains committed to protecting its citizens by “upholding the highest standards of national security and public safety through our visa process in particular.” “As laid out in President Trump’s Executive Order 14161, ‘Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other
National Security and Public Safety Threats,’ the visa adjudication process has got to ensure that U.S.-bound foreign travelers do not pose a threat to the national security and public safety of the United States. That is I think a very low bar and is a bar that every nation should be able to adopt,” Bruce told reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday. Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St Kitts-Nevis, and St Lucia were named in a leaked State Department memo signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and circulated to US diplomatic missions — regarding
potential travel restrictions. The memo reportedly cites concerns tied to these countries’ citizenship-by-investment programs. Under the CBI program, foreign investors are granted citizenship in exchange for substantial contributions to national development. These four Caribbean countries have previously defended their CBI programs as legitimate economic tools, citing strong due diligence measures. All four nations have stated they have not received official communication from Washington regarding the proposed travel
ban. Antigua and Barbuda’s Foreign Affairs Minister E.P. Chet Greene responded to the reports, saying, “We will not be bullied. Our foreign policy is one of principle.” Bruce explained that the US government evaluates countries based on security capabilities, information sharing, identity management practices, visa system abuses such as high overstay rates, and failure to repatriate removable nationals. “So noting where a country perhaps, as you did, is located, the geoposition – the actual location – of a country is not a factor, or what continent that country is on. These are about continues on B2 – Travel ban
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