PD James, crime novelist, dies aged 94
From BBC Crime novelist PD James, who penned more than 20 books, has died aged 94. Her agent said she died “peacefully at her home in Oxford” on Thursday morning. The author’s books, many featuring sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, sold millions…
Barbados: Lower energy costs at the core
By Barbados Business Authority from Nationnews Should Barbados pursue a 100 per cent renewable energy system? Is a 100 per cent renewable energy system the answer to Barbados’ energy problems? Prominent German university Professor Olav Hohmeyer thinks so, and he…
China grants more educational scholarships to The Bahamas
From Bahamaislandsinfo NASSAU, Bahamas — Thirteen Bahamians, seven of whom are students of The College of The Bahamas and The College’s Confucius Institute, have accepted scholarships to study in the People’s Republic of China during the 2013-2014 academic year. The…
Evaluating Cairo+20 and looking toward 2015
By Ana Abelenda From Friday Files During the First session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean that took place in Montevideo, 12-15 August 2013, AWID spoke to women’s rights activists from the…
Death wears bling: the glory of London’s Caribbean funerals
From The Spectator Ian Thomson applauds the grand rituals of West Indian funerals in his review of Charlie Phillips’s How Great Thou Art How Great Thou Art: Fifty Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London Charlie Phillips King/Otchere Productions, pp.130,…
Federal Judge signs off on IPod antitrust trial
By Marisa Kendall, The Recorder OAKLAND — A class of iPod buyers suing Apple seems likely to make it to trial intact, after an eleventh hour challenge from the company’s legal team fell flat. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers…
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,…
How red meat could raise risk of Alzheimer’s
By Larisa Brown From iol lifestyle The accumulation of the mineral abundant in red meat was found to have begun in the part of the brain which is generally damaged in the early stages of the disease. London – Eating…
It’s official: Giant snook is all-time record
By Bill Sargent From Florida Today Ward Michaels never doubted for a minute that his catch of an enormous 591/2-pound Pacific black snook last March at Puerto Quepos in Costa Rica would be accepted as an all-tackle world record. “I…
Unpleasant dance with CCJ by Jamaica and T&T
By Rickey Singh From Jamaica Observer Some 52 years after Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago formally severed the colonial relationship with Britain, they maintain a strange preference for the Privy Council in London as their final appellate institution instead of…
