Recipe of the week – Halloween
Halloween is coming up… the spookiest time of the year! This celebration on October 31st has many iconic symbols such as costume parties, trick-o-treating and pumpkin carving. We’re inviting you to enjoy Halloween and to encourage you to decorate your…
Free Beacon: Loretta Lynch ‘Pleads Fifth’ on Iran ransom probe
By Joe Crowe Attorney General Loretta Lynch is declining to comply with a probe into the Obama administration’s secret efforts to send Iran $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year to avoid incriminating herself, according to The Washington Free Beacon….
Latin America and the Caribbean at the forefront of climate action
By Matilde Mord From UNDP In this blog series, UNDP experts share their perspectives in the lead-up to the next climate summit, COP22, taking place in November in Marrakech, Morocco. Latin American and Caribbean countries have long been at the…
Congresswoman urges Caribbean nationals to meet deadline to file for citizenship
From Jamaica Observer NEW YORK, USA (CMC) — Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke is urging Caribbean nationals who want to file immigration applications and petitions to submit them before December 23, 2016, when several fees will increase. “Citizenship confers enormous benefits,…
Caribbean mobile entrepreneurs urged to participate in Canadian government funded project
From Antigua Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct 29, CMC –Regional mobile entrepreneurs are being given an opportunity to compete for a share of US$75,000 and be recognized as some of the top tech talent in the region under a project aimed…
Viral obituary wrongly declares Great Barrier Reef as dead
BY MARIA GALLUCCI From Mashable The bad news: 22 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has died. The good news is, relatively speaking, that the rest of the 1,400-mile-long coral reef is alive — severely threatened, yes, but not yet…
Free trade taking toll on health of Caribbean school children
From CARICOM GEORGE TOWN Cayman Islands, Demerara Waves – Caribbean health and education experts have lamented the impact of free trade on the consumption of certain foods and beverages that are badly affecting the health of the region’s children. Senior…
Why did the Galaxy Note 7 explode? Samsung won’t tell us anytime soon
By Chris Smith From BGR The Galaxy Note 7 is both the best smartphone Samsung has ever made and its biggest scandal. Multiple Galaxy Note 7 explosions lead to a first recall, which was not sufficient to fix the manufacturing…
Caribbean lukewarm on LGBT travellers
From Antigua Observer MIAMI BEACH, Florida – The Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) has said the body cannot force member countries to cater to the Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Transgender (LGBT) traveller. Hugh Riley has labelled as “a…
US vote could impact Caribbean’s climate future
From Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica and the Caribbean’s bid for a secure climate future is likely to be impacted by the outcome of the November 8 United States (US) presidential election. However, whether the impact will be negative or positive remains…