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Alice In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass By Jenny Smith From Olwomen Movies Why a fairytale should be considered as a movie for females you may ask. Well if you have seen the first part you would know that Alice…
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Political defeat aftermath in Jamaica
By Derrick MillerFrom Caribbean News Now An Eye Opener: On February 25, 2016, the nation of Jamaica went to their constituencies and voted. This election cycle looks like an was an insult to democracy when several reports confirmed that more…
Creating Concorde
1964-1969 Creating Concorde. The world’s first supersonic passenger jet By Amanda Uren From Mashable October 1963 A wooden mockup of the Concorde nose and cockpit under construction at Filton factory in Bristol. Image: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images When, in 1947, the U.S….
IRS/DOJ Summons seeks to break Singapore Bank Secrecy on Non-Resident’s Account
By Scott D. Michel & Mark E. Matthews From Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered In late February 2016, the Justice Department filed an action in federal court to compel UBS’s branch in Miami to produce bank records of a Singapore account…
Trinidadian gets life for killing disabled daughter
From St Lucia Times TORONTO, Canada, Tuesday March 8, 2016 – A Trinidadian born woman has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, after being found guilty of the first-degree murder of her…
Thousands of Chinese residents evacuated for world’s largest telescope
By Emily Calandrelli From TechCrunch Over 9,000 Chinese residents will be evacuated from their homes in order to create a radio-quiet zone for the world’s largest telescope. The telescope, known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), will listen for…
Polar bears: endangered species
The US and Canada are clashing over the status of this possibly endangered species By VICE News From Business Insider Green groups and the American government are expected to lobby the global community to classify polar bears as a species…
Cayman Islands to ‘Fly a Flag for the Commonwealth’
The Cayman Islands will fly the Commonwealth flag outside the Government Administration Building (GAB) on Monday, 14 March 2016 at 10 a.m. as part of worldwide Commonwealth Day celebrations. To reflect this year’s theme “An Inclusive Commonwealth” over 850 Commonwealth…
10 Caribbean roots women in U.S. elected posts
From News Americas Now Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, last April, accompanied President Barack Obama on his Caribbean trip to Jamaica and the Summit of the Americas in Panama. (White House photo) Compiled By NAN Staff Writer News Americas, NEW…
Survey: Many companies are ignoring the risks of ‘Shadow IT’
By Stephanie Forshee, From Corporate Counsel Employees commonly use cloud-based services such as Evernote and Dropbox to share their work, even though these activities often haven’t been sanctioned by the employer’s IT department. This sort of unsanctioned information sharing, known…
