Octopus mom protects her eggs for an astonishing 4-1/2 years
By Will Dunham From Yahoo News WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If someone were to create an award for “mother of the year” in the animal kingdom, a remarkably dedicated eight-limbed mom from the dark and frigid depths of the Pacific Ocean…
Antibiotics in your chicken!
By Bindu Shajan Perappadan From The Hindu The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) lab study found residues of antibiotics in 40 per cent of the samples of chicken that were tested. Large-scale unregulated use of antibiotics in the poultry…
Funds – Ireland – Quarterly Update Q2 – April – June 2014
Article by Barry McGrath, Stephen Carty, Peter Stapleton, Paul Dobbyn, Carol Widger and Adam Donoghue From Maples and Calder 1 Legal & Regulatory 1.1 AIFMD Update On 16 July 2013, the European Union (Alternative Investment Fund Managers) Regulations 2013 (No….
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Local firm [Grenadian] awarded first compete Caribbean Technical Assistance Grant in Grenada
Bridgetown, Barbados, July 23, 2014 – Grenadian firm, Protein From Waste and Local Crops Inc. (PFW), has successfully won a bid to demonstrate the viability of small scale protein rendering for animal feed supplementation, using locally available organic and fuel…
Cayman Islands Catboat Club holds grand re-opening of its clubhouse
It was a beautiful day for the grand re-opening of the Cayman Islands Catboat Club clubhouse last Saturday (2). Their clubhouse suffered terrible damage from Hurricane Ivan nearly 10 years ago and it sat there almost beside Burger King on…
AIDS 2014: Key Messages/Lessons for the Caribbean
From Curacao Chronicle CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – The Twentieth International AIDS conference is over. Far from over, however, is what must be done on this “last climb” to end the epidemics of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by…
Look, Ma, no wheels! How maglev trains reach 500kph
By Takashi Kurokawa, By Nikkei Asin Review TOKYO — JR Tokai, a railway operator in central Japan, is scheduled to begin construction this autumn on the Linear Chuo Shinkansen line. The line’s magnetically levitated, or maglev, trains will be the…
Tesla delivers
By Rob Wile From Business Insider Tesla reported adjusted earnings of $0.11 a share, beating Bloomberg’s consensus for earnings of $0.04 a share and loss of $0.26 a year ago. Revenue came in at $857.5 million, versus a consensus estimate…
Tiger Woods walks off course at Bridgestone / CPL Cricket
Tiger Woods walks off course at Bridgestone Invitational By Andrew Both AKRON, Ohio — Reuters From The Globe and Mail Defending champion Tiger Woods pulled out of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio on Sunday after aggravating his troublesome back,…
