Corporate Privilege
By RETIII from Daily Kos I wrote a diary not too long ago, explaining how U.S. corporations artificially hide U.S. profits as “foreign profits.” It is nothing more complicated than accounting tricks. http://www.dailykos.com/… Surprisingly, for a Daily Kos site, some…
Op-Ed: Integrating the Caribbean and Central America
By Alberto Duran and Noemi Areli Sanchez Op-Ed Contributors From Caribbean Journal The Central American Integration System (SICA) was formed in 1991 and is a regional organization which includes the States of Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala,…
40 Majestic photos of the Cayman Islands in U.K
From BoomsBeat We are only showing TEN of them/ The Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, south of Cuba and…
Hurricane Ivan – September 2-26, 2004
From NOAA Ivan was a classical long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that made three landfalls along the United States coast and reached category 5 strength three times. Ivan developed from a vigorous tropical wave that moved off the west coast of…
Obama’s plan to counter Venezuela’s oil clout
By Andres Oppenheimer From Miami Herald For years, U.S. officials have been in a quandary about how to counter Venezuela’s political influence in Central American and the Caribbean through its subsidized oil exports. Now, the Obama administration is quietly launching…
Sex, sensuality, & womanhood through the Caribbean lens: One woman’s story
By Bee Quammie From For Harriet “It’s raining My body’s calling I’m in neeeeeed Of my darling…” – Lady Saw I still remember my father bringing home that Lady Saw vinyl, putting it on his turntable in our basement, and…
Getting rid of nude celebrity photos on the web is a lost cause
By Colin Daileda From Mashable Perhaps unsurprisingly, those nude photos of celebrities are likely to stay on the Internet forever. Some of the celebrities whose naked images were stolen and spread across the web this past weekend, such as Jennifer…
50 missing after Kashmir bus swept away by stream
From The New Zealand Herald A bus carrying more than 50 wedding guests was swept away by a flooded stream Thursday in the Indian-held portion of Kashmir, and all but five of the passengers were missing, officials said. Police officer…
Tesla picks Nevada for $5 bln battery plant
By Michael Thurston, AFP from Business Insider Los Angeles (AFP) – US electric automaker Tesla Motors is to build the world’s largest lithium-ion battery plant in Nevada, the state’s governor announced, unveiling plans for the five-billion-dollar “Gigafactory.” The plant, plans for…
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,…
