A 17-year-old girl is suing Royal Caribbean after one of its employees allegedly plied her with alcohol and raped her during a March cruise.According to the lawsuit, 31-year-old Francisco Piñeda Adames was singing in the band aboard the ship when, two days into the cruise out of Fort Lauderdale, the…
Miami’s Paramount Bay condo cost $262 million and two lives
What a difference two months makes. In March, members of the Miami Heat were crying in their locker room; now they’re poised to kick the Celtics out of the post-season. Back then, Donald Trump was flying high. Now everyone knows his presidential credentials are faker than his hair piece.But time…
Paramount Bay’s luxury waterfront condo was scheduled to open more than two years ago. But stop by the 46-story blue glass building at 2066 N. Bayshore Dr. and you feel like you’ve wandered onto the set of some post-apocalyptic film.Bright orange cones guard the lonely front steps. Plastic barriers block…
While the nation has been consumed by the debate over whether or not President Obama should release gruesome, post-mortem photos of Osama Bin Laden, we’ve got our own First Amendment controversy brewing in Miami Beach.Club Madonna, the neon-lit flesh palace on Washington Avenue where you can get nipple tassels galore…
Nine months ago, former Cuban President Fidel Castro said Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent who never failed to pop up when George W. Bush needed a foil. “Bush never lacked for bin Laden’s support,” Castro said at the time. “He was a subordinate.”Now that bin Laden is gone, however,…
When Carlos Alvarez was booted from office on March 15, the largest local recall election in U.S. history sent a clear message to the Miami establishment: no more inside-the-beltway politics. Six weeks later, however, that lesson seems already forgotten.Yesterday, the Miami Foundation held a debate at UM between those vying…
Pope John Paul II may have died six years ago, but the recently beatified Pole still packs quite a holy punch. At least, so believes Peruvian president Alan Garcia, who credited JPII for “removing” Osama Bin Laden earlier today during the dedication of a hydroelectric power station in Cusco. “His…
Earlier this week we reported the strange case of Richard Gamble, manager of the Captain’s Seafood & Restaurant in Florida City. Gamble was arrested earlier this month for allegedly threatening to kill his employees. But when his fingerprints were taken, cops discovered that Gamble was actually Ronald Gerald Miranda: a…
Ponzi schemer Marguerite Martial Jean rocks Little Haiti church
Ronald Miranda: 30 years on the run
Padre Juán Ramón O’Farrill’s sermons against Fidel Castro and the communism that had taken root in his native Cuba were so passionate that when he died, a stretch of NE Second Street was renamed in his honor. But a lawsuit to be unveiled this afternoon paints a much different picture…
“If you prick a baller, does he not bleed?” — William ShakespeareProfessional athletes are finely tuned machines: millions of dollars’ worth of ESPN-highlight-generating speed, torque, power, and finesse. But behind the oversize egos and titanic Twitter followings, pro ballers are flesh and blood like the rest of us. Case in…
In this week’s New Times, we unravel the mysterious double life of Ronald Miranda AKA Richard Gamble.Back on November 15, 1980, Miranda allegedly mowed down the man he found sleeping with his wife in the small town of Los Banos, California. Thirty-one years later, Miranda — with a new name and…
Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, president-elect of Haiti, visited Miami earlier today to announce new surcharges designed to fund education in the earthquake-ravaged country.Speaking in both English and Kreyol at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Martelly said that deepening ties to Miami’s Haitian-American community was one of his priorities for his…
Over the past decade, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has become the Cuban government’s number one supporter. His oil subsidies help keep the embargoed island afloat and, in return, he welcomes Cuban doctors to Caracas’s poor, inner-city barrios.So his latest praise for the economic changes approved by this week’s Sixth Cuban…
Barry Jenkins calmly navigates his navy blue Nissan Maxima through the empty afternoon streets of Overtown. He crosses rusty train tracks and passes skeletal figures curled up in shuttered doorways before turning onto narrow NW Miami Court.
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 rig workers and released 206 million gallons of crude into the ocean. And while the oil spill undoubtedly hurt many Florida businesses, including Gulf resorts and fishing trawlers, we in Miami…
The Cuban Communist Party’s sixth congress concludes today in Havana and if there is one clear point of consensus following the four-day event, it’s that no one — probably not Raúl, and certainly not Fidel — has any idea what just happened.Take The Bearded One, for example. Just yesterday it…
Seventh Day Adventist? More like Seventh Day A-hole.According to investigators, Marguerite Martial Jean ran a $3.4 million Ponzi scheme targeting nearly 300 of her fellow Haitian-Americans. As if that wasn’t cynical enough, her former pastor says Jean scammed at least 25 fellow members of the Eden Seventh Day Adventist Church…
Haven’t heard of Barry Jenkins? You will, soon enough.The indie movie director’s latest film, Chlorophyl, opens this weekend at Miami’s very own seventh annual Borscht Film Festival. His first feature film Medicine for Melancholy was called one of the best flicks of 2009 by the New York Times. And he’s…
They landed silently in the pre-dawn darkness: small groups of armed men seeking to overthrow Fidel Castro and his young government. Then everything went wrong. Two days later, the mission was in flames.This Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, when 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles…
