Woman gives birth in Walmart parking lot on her birthday with help from fellow shoppers
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist There’s a happy birthday, and then there’s “It’s my birthday and I’m having a baby in a Walmart parking lot.” A pregnant North Dakota woman had a scary situation on her hands when she…
Caribbean clingfish: Tiny, tenacious and tentatively toxic
From Science Daily, Source: Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Sometimes we think we know everything about something only to find out we really don’t, said a Texas A&M University scientist. Dr. Kevin Conway, assistant professor and curator of fishes with Texas…
WuXi PharmaTech Announces First-Quarter 2014 Results
SHANGHAI, May 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. WX -6.32% , a leading research and development services company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, with operations in China and the United States, today announced its financial…
Get wet at the top five water parks in the Caribbean
From iHealth Travel In some ways the Caribbean is one huge water park, with azure seas, waterfall hikes, river rafting and surfing. Sometimes, though, a vacationer is looking for that extra level of water-based adrenaline. That’s where water parks come…
Study lists dangerous chemicals linked to breast cancer
Relaxnews Fron Yahoo News Study lists dangerous chemicals linked to breast cancer Certain chemicals that are common in everyday life have been shown to cause breast cancer in lab rats and are likely to do the same in women, US…
“Proud of Them” Round 3
Remarks by the Hon. Minister Osbourne Bodden May 2014. Government faces so many issues of national importance, and is tasked with so many critical projects and policies, that some may query the time and effort we dedicate to this initiative…
Business confidence falls in the Caribbean
By Shanelle Weir Global business confidence is on the up, but the global economic recovery could be seriously flawed, reveals new research from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Global Economic Conditions…
Earth had its 2nd-warmest April on record
By Andrew Freedman From Mashable Earth just went through its second-warmest April on record, according to preliminary NASA data. This comes on the heels of the fourth-warmest March, and continues a streak of more than 29 years of global temperatures…
Tourism in the school curriculum
By Bonita Morgan On behalf of the Caribbean Tourism Organization I want to commend the Caribbean Examinations Council for the launch of the five new subjects at the CAPE level, which addresses specific needs in our societies or areas where…
Arrogance’ of ignoring need for sleep
By James Gallagher, Health and science reporter, BBC News Society has become “supremely arrogant” in ignoring the importance of sleep, leading researchers have told the BBC’s Day of the Body Clock. Scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Manchester and Surrey universities…
