Chelsea Clinton leaving her unbelievably cushy fake job at NBC
By Joe Coscarell From New York Mag Kicking off the annual Labor Day Friday News Dump, Chelsea Clinton has announced, via People, that she will no longer pretend to be a reporter. The once (and future?) First Daughter has been…
Caribbean agricultural institute creates revenue generating unit
From Caribbean News Now ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad — With a focus on increasing crop and small ruminant productivity by equipping the region’s agribusiness sector to deal with the challenges of climate change, increasing incidence of invasive pests, low productivity and…
Embattled court official barred from leaving St Vincent on one-way ticket
From Caribbean360 KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Friday August 29, 2014, CMC – The Immigration Department has prevented the embattled former Registrar of the High Court, Vanessa Tamara Gibson-Marks from leaving the island for her homeland, less than 24 hours after she…
group exposes the extravagant excess of Swazi royals
This WikiLeaks-inspired group exposes the extravagant excess of Swazi royals By Ben Winsor from Business Insider TOP IMAGE: A Meme from the SwaziLeaks Facebook profile. The Kingdom of Swaziland has a total population of just 1.2 million people, 60% of…
Caribbean New York Fashion Week 2014 in September
By Donald Hood Caribbean New York Fashion Week 2014 is a fashion event showcasing some of the Caribbean emerging and established Fashion Designers Collections, Caribbean Models and highlights of Carnival Costume Designs. New York, NY – Caribbean New York Fashion…
Boosting Resilience in the Caribbean Countries
By Jessica Faieta, Inter Press Service | Op-Ed From Truth Out United Nations – Having lived and worked for more than a decade in four Caribbean countries, I have witnessed firsthand how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are extremely vulnerable…
Clientelism hurting Latin America and the Caribbean
Contributed by: elijose From News Trinidad and Tobago Patronage can lead to corruption, low economic growth, poverty, and even higher child mortality. It also is a tenacious foe. Donor agencies pump huge amounts of money into rooting it out. They…
Invest 99L [Now TS Dolly] heads for Bay of Campeche / Large wave African Coast
UPDATE: Tropical Dolly forms in the Gulf TROPICAL STORM DOLLY INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 3A NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052014 700 AM CDT TUE SEP 02 2014 …DOLLY HEADING TOWARD THE COAST OF MEXICO… SUMMARY OF 700 AM CDT…1200 UTC…INFORMATION ———————————————-…
Funeral for the late Pamela Hart
The funeral for the late Pamela Hart will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, with a Mass of Christian burial at St. Ignatius Catholic Church on Walkers Road in George Town. Interment will follow in the Garden of…