School in China literally cracks down on students’ phones
BY YI SHU NG From Mashable Many schools frown upon students bringing phones to school. And this one means business. A middle school in Guiyang, a city in southwest China, is going viral for actually destroying phones that it confiscates….
United States suspends all Brazilian meat imports
From BBC The United States has suspended Brazilian meat imports over “recurring concerns about the safety of products intended for the American market”. Several countries banned Brazilian meat in March, when prosecutors said health inspectors there had been taking bribes…
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Things That Matter: Letter From Nassau, Bahamas
BY: SIR HENRY FRASER From Barbados Advocate Last Sunday I wrote about joining in the celebration of the success of 48 young doctors passing the final medical exams of the University of the West Indies, at the Cave Hill Campus…
The perverse presidency of Donald Trump
By Andrew Sullivan From New York Mag I was mulling, as one does, over this presidency, and something crystallized in my head that I had not quite grasped before. Its policies are best described as simply perverse. The new Senate…
Antarctica Is melting, and giant ice cracks are just the start
By Douglas Fox From National Geographic The massive iceberg poised to break off the Larsen C Ice Shelf may be a harbinger of a continent-wide collapse that would swamp coastal cities around the world. Seen from above, the Pine Island…
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Cricket: The calm after the storm
By Hemant Buch From espn Cricketinfo On June 19, tropical storm Bret lashed Trinidad, downing power lines, flooding several low-lying areas and leaving the island in chaos. Just a day before that, a storm named Pakistan had lashed the Indian…
Global ransomware attack causes turmoil
From BBC Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack. British advertising agency WPP is among those to say its IT systems have been disrupted as a consequence. The virus, the source…
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UTSA associate professor travels to Cuba to research female folklore
(June 26, 2017) — Inspired by the research she did for her internationally recognized Fall 2016 undergraduate course, “Black Women, Beyoncé and Popular Culture,” UTSA English professor Kinitra D. Brooks will be in Cuba this month to conduct research on…
IV Trade and Investment Conference to be hosted in Costa Rica on the 29-30 August
By Giordano Associates Ltd The Costa Rican President, Luis Guillermo Solis, has endorsed the Caribbean RIM Platform, and the IV International Investors Conference & the FIRST CARIRIM TRADEXPO 2017 to be held at the internationally prestigious, EARTH University – located…
AIDS Foundation tests 89 on Caribbean testing day
From The Daily Herald St Maarten PHILIPSBURG–Eighty nine persons learnt their HIV status during the St. Maarten AIDS Foundation free and confidential testing held on Caribbean Regional HIV Testing Day on Saturday, June 24. The Foundation held the testing day…
