Stranded Cubans start to leave Guyana
From Caribbean News Service GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Apr 26 2017 – Hundreds of Cuban nationals stranded here over the past few days were leaving Guyana on Tuesday after the authorities granted the Honduras-based Easy Sky Airline temporary permission to fly into…
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Wyndham celebrates 200 hotels in Latin America and the Caribbean
Hospitality powerhouse doubles its footprint less than five years after welcoming its 100th in the region; Introduces approachable luxury to South America with the continent’s first Wyndham Grand hotels PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Hotel giant WyndhamHotel Group’s rapidly mounting global presence hit…
This ram is so on trend with its fused ‘unicorn’ horns
BY SASHA LEKACH From Mashable Just when you thought we’d reached peak unicorn, a sheep in Iceland has been discovered masquerading as the real thing. A ram, born last spring to family farmers Erla Porey Olafsdottir and her husband, Bjarni…
Proposed 2% tax on remittances to build Trump’s Mexican wall
By wiredja Online News MONTEGO BAY, April 26, 2017 – US President Donald Trump has ditched plans to fund his border wall from the budget, in favour of a plan to have congress place a 2% tax on remittances to…
Caribbean Immigration Services Director not surprised at US Remittance Tax
From Jamaica Gleaner Managing Director of the New York-based Caribbean Immigration Services, Irwine Clare, says he’s not surprised by the decision of the United States to propose legislation to tax remittances sent to countries like Jamaica. The tax would be…
Texas Earth Day
Texas hosts the largest Earth Day event in the world — here’s what it was like By Rebecca Harrington From Business Insider Dallas businessman and philanthropist Trammell S Crow founded Earth Day Texas in 2011 and its gotten bigger every…
Store of the future
Your data in return for a seamless online/offline shopping experience BY LIZA HEARON From Mashable Here’s an idea: all the convenience of online shopping combined with the instant gratification of shopping in physical stores IRL. This is the vision of…
Suriname protests escalate
From Caribbean News Service ARAMARIBO, Suriname, Apr 26 2017 – Trade unions and other civil groups say they will be filing a lawsuit against the Desi Bouterse government for violating their fundamental rights. The unions and other groups have been staging…
First gene therapy drug proves a flop in the market
By Jon Fingas From engadget Glybera’s $1 million price tag likely doomed it from the start. When UniQure launched the first commercial gene therapy drug, Glybera, it promised a minor revolution in medicine. By using custom viruses to deliver genes,…
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China proves its first resupply spacecraft can reach orbit
By Mariella Moon From engadget It successfully docked with the country’s orbiting lab. China’s space program just hit a milestone: according to Reuters, its first cargo probe has successfully proven that it can ferry supplies to orbit. Tianzhou-1 took off…
