Sailing the Caribbean in style onboard Viking Sky
BY JAMES LISTON From TTG Scandi style and charm meet value for money on a Viking Ocean cruise, as James Litston discovers in the Caribbean. Viking Sky West-Indies-ExplorerSHARELINESTwitterFacebook”Agents should feel confident recommending it to clients who enjoy quality, style and…
Biopic on disgraced Olympic skater fails to impress
BY KAM WILLIAMS From Caribbean Life Based on the unbelievable, but true events, “I, Tonya” is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. “I, Tonya” Poor (0…
Geneticists reconstruct the DNA of a slave born into a Dutch colony in the Caribbean who escaped to Iceland –
By CHEYENNE MACDONALD From DAILY MAIL UK – even though he died 200 years ago and his body has been lost Researchers reconstructed the maternal genome of escaped slave Hans Jonatan He was born in the late 1700s on the…
Open Banking is here to change how you manage your money
By Jamie Rigg From engadget It’ll bring about the next generation of financial advice. After completing a review of the retail banking sector back in the summer of 2016, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concluded that stagnation had…
Enslavement of African migrants in Libya
From CARICOM The Community Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at its first sitting of 2018, expressed concern at the reports of the dehumanizing situation of African migrants in Libya being auctioned into slavery by criminal elements. Ministers…
The Caribbean needs incubators!
From SMN-N Wow, why, what? Is there an upcoming baby-boom? Is it related to this year’s carnival? Why don’t they distribute contraceptives? Those are questions that I don’t have answers for. But I had something else in mind anyway. I…
NASA hopes to send a probe to Alpha Centauri in 2069
By Jon Fingas, From engadget Even your grandkids might not be around to see the results If you thought NASA was playing the long game with its plan to put people on Mars in the 2030s, you haven’t seen anything…
UAE to provide US$50 million renewable energy fund for Guyana and the Caribbean
By Ray Chickrie From Caribbean News Now GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Three of Guyana’s energy projects (micro-hydros) have been selected for funding by United Arab Emirates (UAE)-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund, said the minister of public infrastructure, David Patterson, who is heading…
It’s not all black and white
BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER From Caribbean Life “So You Want to Talk about Race” by Ijeoma Oluo c.2018, Seal Press $27.00 / $35.00 Canada 248 pages It’s all there in front of you. Plain as day. Plain as the nose on…
Pope Francis lands in Chile
From teleSUR The pontiff will also speak with survivors of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). Chilean President Michelle Bachelet greeted Pope Francis this evening as he stepped onto the tarmac of the Santiago airport, arriving from Rome. He…