High Court raises burden for employers on pregnancy bias
By Marcia Coyle From Supreme Court Brief Employers are not required to give pregnant workers the same accommodations that they offer workers with similarly temporary disabilities, but need to establish a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for any difference to avoid liability…
Lee Kuan-Yew’s Caribbean rescue in the Commonwealth
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Huntington News Lee Kuan-Yew, who led Singapore for three decades, died on March 23, 2015. He was a remarkable man who is best remembered for courageous leadership that converted a tiny island with virtually no…
Police cause chaos [in Trinidad and Tobago]
By Bert Wilkinson From Caribbean Life There are very few officers in Trinidad’s police system who could try to convince locals that a country-wide system of coordinated roadblocks the force sprung upon citizens during rush hour on Monday morning was…
Investing in the world’s water crisis
By Jack Brewer, former NFL player From CNBC All across the globe, communities are facing a lack of access to clean drinking water. Several U.S. companies have jumped in to help find solutions. UNICEF and the World Health Organization estimate…
Whistleblowers and the prosecution loophole
By Shanna Devine and Liz Hempowicz From Caribbean Life When facing the prospect of criminal prosecution for leaking highly classified material to his mistress and later lying about it to the FBI, General David Petraeus found unlikely allies on Capitol…
Here’s what US intelligence thought Hitler would do in 1943
By Amanda Macias From Business Insider During WWII the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, hired an American psychologist to analyze and predict the behavior of the world’s most brutal tyrant. Psychologist Henry Murray produced a 229-page…
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Advancing maternal, child health in Latin America and the Caribbean
From USAID Recently, USAID sponsored a course for more than 40 delegates from the Ministries of Health and Finance from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador and Peru to learn about strategies for progressing toward Universal Health…
Catalina Island tall ship sold to Caribbean company
By Jim Watson The legendary tall ship Tole Mour, which graced the waters around Catalina Island for many years, has been sold to a windjammer charter company in the Caribbean. Island Windjammers, which offers casual cruises on tall ships, recently…
Recipe of the week
Minnesota Wild Rice & Mushroom Soup Recipes From The Kitchn Maybe it’s just residual from the holidays, but I’ve been feeling rather homesick lately. No surprise that this manifests as food! My family is from Minnesota, and this soup was…
FedEx says it can’t face charges for illegal drug shipments
By Ross Todd, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — FedEx Corp. has taken its first swing at knocking out a federal criminal case alleging it shipped drugs for illegal Internet pharmacies. FedEx’s lawyers at Arguedas, Cassman & Headley and Skadden,…
