It’s official, Australians: The government gets to keep your data for longer
By Jenni Ryall From Mashable Australian telecommunication and Internet companies will be required to keep the data of Australians for two years by law. Late Thursday evening, the Australian Senate passed Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill, despite…
This company just revolutionized our understanding of disease by doing its research backwards
By Erin Brodwin From Business Insider This week, a team of scientists used the genetic data on thousands of Icelanders to find out where some of our most troubling diseases come from. They discovered that a condition called early-onset atrial…
Destination of the week
New waves in the Caribbean: Chic resort part of trend toward more sophisticated island getaways By Robin Robinson, From Toronto Sun Punta Cana, Dominican Republic The mermaid is drawing an appreciative crowd as she dips and dives in her sparkling…
Top US CEOs reaped billions from stock gains in recent years
From The Daily Herald BOSTON–CEOs at large U.S. companies collectively realized at least $6 billion more in compensation than initially estimated in annual disclosures in the five years after the financial crisis first hit, according to a Reuters analysis. The…
PNP chairman pick put off -new date to be set at next NEC
From Turks & Caicos Weekly News The current chairmanship of the Progressive National Party (PNP) is secure for now as the anticipated April elections has been postponed indefinitely. The Weekly News confirmed this with current chairman, Trevor Cooke on Thursday…
No need to fear the end of PetroCaribe, S&P tells Caribbean
By Lucien Chauvin From Emerging Markets Although Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has committed to maintain the discounted oil programme PetroCaribe, some of the 17 beneficiary nations in Central America and the Caribbean are using the opportunity of low crude orices…
Another consumer class action battle heads to Supreme Court
By Scott Flaherty, From The Litigation Daily Four years after holding that federal law trumps California’s ability to block class action waivers, the U.S. Supreme Court plunged back into the consumer arbitration debate on Monday in a case involving the…
4 harmful foods that benefit us too
Contributed by Meera Nair From Times of India Maintaining a healthy diet isn’t easy as one has to be careful of every morsel of food or sip of drink that they consume. So when research reveals a positive angle to…
Caribbean Fisheries Forum to review regional spiny lobster declaration
Belize City, March 29, 2015 (CRFM): Heads of national fisheries authorities from the seventeen (17) Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), as well as observers and partner agencies, will attend the 13th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries…
Stieg Larsson’s partner appalled by ‘Millennium business’
By Camille Bas-Wohlert, AFP From Business Insider Stockholm (AFP) – Eva Gabrielsson doesn’t mince her words: continuing the wildly successful Millennium trilogy written by her late partner Stieg Larsson is a mistake and should never have happened. The highly-anticipated fourth…
