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Get your rum on while visiting these 3 Caribbean islands By Brian Major From Travel Pulse Rum is as much a part of the Caribbean as blue waters, white-sand beaches and lush countryside. The spirit was created on 17th and…
Watch the Earth
Watch the Earth from the ISS observatory in a 4K 360 video By Steve Dent From engadget The best seat in the house. International Space Station (ISS) crew work pretty hard, but when they do get time off, they often…
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Revolutionary Cuba trains 80k international doctors—for free
From telesur Cuba began awarding free scholarships to students from across the Global South in the 1960s, many of whom had been affected by conflict and war. Cuba has trained more than 80,000 doctors from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa,…
WSJ: Junk Bond Market Signals Market Optimism Over Trump
By F McGuire From Newsmax Junk-bond investors are “sending relatively optimistic signs” about a Donald Trump administration, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Prices are dropping, and money has been flowing out of high-yield bond funds. But risk premiums haven’t risen,…
New York Times flooded with complaints about election coverage
By Theodore Bunker From Newsmax The readers of The New York Times are speaking out against the newspaper’s election coverage and complaining to their offices at “five times the normal level.” “The number of complaints coming into the public editor’s…
These are the most common weeks of the year for Americans to get married
By Dan Kopf, Priceonomics From Business Insider Picking a wedding date is likely the single biggest planning decision a couple will make in their lives. The chosen date impacts the expense of the ceremony, venue possibilities, and the plans of…
Peter Binose: Mount Coke, or a Mountain of Cocaine, Ask Ralph?
By Peter Binose Mount Coke as most Vincentians know is on the hill adjacent to Argyle, with its lovely little Church, now short of a few worshippers after the government pulled their houses down and stole their land to build…
Researchers are crowdfunding in a last-resort to save the orange-bellied parrot
BY JOHNNY LIEU From Mashable The orange-bellied parrot has long been threatened with extinction in the wild, but it’s only recently researchers realised just how much trouble the species is in. Each year, researchers keep track of how many of…
Trump team promises to address ethics concerns on businesses
By David Shepardson, Reuters From newsmax WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump will work to ensure there is “proper separation” between his business empire and his job as president of the United States, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said on Sunday,…
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“Wars of Others” encore to close HBO’s 2016 documentary season
The HBO Latin America original production ranks as the most streamed documentary on HBO GO and will also air in the U.S. on HBO Latino MIAMI, Fla. – November 21, 2016 – HBO’s 2016 Documentary Season comes to a close…
