An accountant has been appointed to look into the business affairs of companies of former financier R Allen Stanford.

President of Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA), Gregory Shillingford, has described the acquiring of former West Indies all-rounder, Eldine Baptiste, as an attempt to both elevate the performance of the team and motivate those players who have not been turning out top-notch individual performances.

United States federal prosecutors have argued that two former accounting executives should be convicted of helping Allen Stanford – the failed Texas financier – conceal the theft of billions of dollars from investors at his offshore bank in Antigua & Barbuda.

Attorney Hugh Marshall Jr confirmed yesterday that, from his Texas prison cell, R Allen Stanford facilitated the delivery of a revocation notice to his one-time girlfriend,

Andrea Stoelker is no longer managing the interest of R Allen Stanford in his Stanford Development Company, SDC.

R Allen Stanford, convicted of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, lost a retrial bid after complaining that Twitter comments by reporters may have influenced the jury that found him guilty.

Convicted swindler Allen Stanford should forfeit some US $330 million stashed in foreign bank accounts, a jury found on Thursday.

An Antiguan accounting expert who is also the island’s top banking regulator told the jury at R Allen Stanford’s investment fraud trial that he repeatedly tried to influence the agency that oversaw his banking operations there.

The chief of the US Court of Appeals has ordered defence experts for disgraced Texas financier Allen Stanford to keep preparing for his trial over an alleged seven billion

Attorney General Justin Simon said a court freeze order by locally appointed liquidators will not throw off government’s plans to purchase two parcels of land at the airport.