Gaza conflict: Israel rejects truce ‘as it stands’
From BBC Israel launched its offensive on 8 July, saying its aim was to stop Hamas firing rockets across the border Israel’s security cabinet has rejected a Gaza ceasefire proposal put forward by US Secretary of State John Kerry “as…
Posh Manhattan preschool shaken up by messy sex abuse allegations
By Adam K. Raymond From New York Mag A 22-year-old Danish teaching student arrested last month on the suspicion of sexually abusing 13 children is at the center of a ugly dispute that’s turned Midtown’s International Preschools into a battleground…
Seals use offshore wind farms as hunting grounds
By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor From Mashable Offshore wind farms may become seal hunting grounds, new research shows. As the number of offshore wind farms continues to grow, the farms may affect both seals and their prey, the…
Tasmania: The part of Australia everyone forgets
BY JENNI RYALL From Mashable SYDNEY — Poor Tasmania. It is the island that floats just off the bottom of mainland Australia, and no one can seem to remember it is there. Tasmanians have copped a lot of slack over…
Discussions underway to address nursing shortage in Caribbean
By Alphea Saunders From Caribbean News Now KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Jamaica’s minister of health, Dr Fenton Ferguson, says that discussions are underway to facilitate the seamless movement of nurses throughout the Caribbean in order to address needs in various…
Pa. family holds Ritz-Carlton responsible for teen daughter’s sexual assault in Cayman Islands
By Jim Boyle July 24, 2014 From The Pennsylvania Record A Northampton County family has filed a lawsuit with the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas against Ritz-Carlton Hotels, saying its poor security and negligent hiring practices were responsible for a…
Sunsail reveals premium line up as new fleet heads to Caribbean
By Marion Telsnig, Sunsail From Yachts and Yachting Sunsail is delighted to announce a number of premium additions to enhance its world-class fleet. From December 2014, Sunsail’s Caribbean-based charter fleet will offer customers a choice of three exciting new monohulls,…
Talking Caribbean—the rhetoric of Mas
By Simon Lee from Guardian Media Tropic Tendencies—Rhetoric, Popular Culture and the Anglophone Caribbean, a recent publication by Trinidadian assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at New York’s Syracuse University, Dr Kevin Browne, is a welcome and important addition to…
Having a whale of a time:
Having a whale of a time: Diver is photobombed by gigantic whale shark swimming just six feet from her By James Rush From Daily Mail UK Photographer Ellen Cuylaerts, 44, took the impressive images while on a trip to Isla…
