Caribbean Job Market Faces ‘Scenario Of Uncertainty’ In 2015, Says UN Report
From Curacao Chronicle United Nations Day MEXICO CITY, Mexico — An “unusual pattern” has been detected in this year’s urban employment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean, which continued to fall despite warning signs of economic slowdown, said a…
Marijuana growers sprout on Wall Street as pot goes public
By Andy Fixmer From Mashable Derek Peterson may soon become the first CEO of a public company that cultivates, distributes and sells marijuana. Terra Tech Corp., based in Irvine, California, won approval last week from the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Pakistan Taliban: Peshawar school attack leaves 141 dead
BBC News The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil reports from Peshawar: ”It started as a normal school day… but it turned into a massacre” Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them…
Sea of clouds fills Grand Canyon
Sea of clouds fills Grand Canyon in spectacular weather phenomenon By Megan Specia From Mashable A breathtaking weather phenomenon turned the Grand Canyon into a cauldron of soupy cloud cover on Thursday (11) The rare scenes were caused by a…
A Christmas Mosaic
Savannah United Church presented their annual Christmas Cantata on Saturday evening (13th) and on Sunday morning (14th) A Christmas Mosaic, as described by Mr. Noel Wallace, Music Minister, is “a musical portrait that expresses the broad spectrum of moods, sounds…
Deep-sea asphalt mounds found off West African coast
From Planet Earth Scientists have discovered a large area of the deep seabed strewn with mounds of asphalt off the coast of Angola, hosting rich animal life. This is the first such discovery in the Atlantic proper or in the…
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Sydney siege: Three dead after commandos storm cafe From BBC Two people died, along with an Islamist gunman, after commandos stormed a cafe in Sydney, Australia, to bring to an end a 16-hour siege. The gunman, identified as an Iranian…
The Editor speaks: Police Commissioner Baines speaks up but is it enough?
Even after listening to Police Commissioner Baines’ interview on CITN/Cayman 27 last week and his reply to questions to him by CNS it still may not be enough to save him. He wants to stay he told CITN until his…
Cricket: All parties to blame, says report, but WICB, WIPA ‘erred significantly’
From Stabroek News ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The high level task force commissioned with investigating the ill-fated recent tour of India says the West Indies Cricket Board, players union WIPA and West Indies players, were all at fault in…
