A cruise holiday meant for Caribbean sunshine and onboard entertainment has ended with a four-year federal prison sentence for a passenger who turned the ship’s casino into the center of a $20,000 fraud scheme, used a fake identity to board, and then tried to abandon the voyage mid-cruise to avoid paying his debts. Get the…
Serious credit card delinquencies — balances 90 days or more past due — are the highest they’ve been in 15 years, according to recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. For certified credit counselors, who spend their days helping Americans dig themselves out of debt, this number isn’t a surprise. “Every time…
Africa faces declining aid, rising debt, climate pressure and a weakening global order. Official development assistance, the technical term for foreign aid, fell by 23.1% in 2025, the largest annual contraction on record. It is projected to decline by a further 5.8 per cent in 2026, before accounting for strain from the current crisis in…
Woori Financial Group Chairman Yim Jong-yong, right, speaks during a meeting at the group’s headquarters in Seoul, Friday. Courtesy of Woori Financial Group Woori Financial Group will expand its productive and inclusive finance programs by a combined 10 trillion won ($6.5 billion), stepping up support for strategic industries while broadening assistance for vulnerable borrowers, the…
African and Caribbean leaders have endorsed a 19-point reparations framework that calls for financial compensation, debt relief, and the return of cultural artifacts seized during the transatlantic slave trade. The plan was adopted Friday by the African Union and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Commission on Reparatory Justice during a three-day conference in Ghana. The framework…
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), through its Monetary and Capital Markets Department, and experts from the Bank of Canada have helped the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) overhaul its Core Quarterly Projection Model (QPM), the main tool used to forecast inflation, economic growth, interest rates, and exchange-rate movements. The upgrade comes as Kenya deepens its…
A ruthless Michigan trio allegedly lured a New Yorker into a room at the MGM Grand and attacked him for failing to repay what they said was more than $300,000 in Las Vegas gambling debts. Naved Azim was beaten, strangled, gagged, and shoved in a closet in the horrific Wednesday incident, police said. Accused attackers…
African and Caribbean leaders are demanding financial compensation, debt cancellation and formal apologies from countries that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade after adopting a sweeping reparations plan at a conference in Ghana. The 19-point framework calls for financial compensation, debt relief, a Global Reparations Fund and the return of looted cultural artifacts and ancestral…
Posted on: June 20, 2026, 01:44h. Last updated on: June 20, 2026, 01:49h. Three Michigan men were arrested this week for allegedly kidnapping and beating New Yorker Naved Azim in an MGM Grand hotel room The suspects — a dentist, a Dj, and a physical therapist — accused the victim of creating fake winning DraftKings…