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Clinton Foundation aims to lead Caribbean disaster recovery with new action network
By Amy Lieberman From devex NEW YORK — The Clinton Foundation is launching a new action network on post-disaster recovery in the Caribbean, aiming to tackle long-term challenges that climate change is wreaking on vulnerable small islands such as Puerto…
TT, the bright spot in RBC Caribbean operations
From Newsday TT This country has proved to be a bright spot in RBC Caribbean’s operations, with the local bank posting a net income of $191.3 million for the financial year ending October 2017, a whopping 59 percent increase over…
US Flint water crisis
University of Michigan teams with Google to track Flint water crisis By Andrew Tarantola From engadget They’ve developed an app to show just how little the government has done to fix things. Thanks to the prolific ineptitude of elected officials,…
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‘Destruction everywhere’: Caribbean medical school student reflects on ‘desperation, camaraderie’ after Hurricane Irma
Written by Alyssa Rege From Becker’s Hospital Review Prior to making landfall in Florida last September, Hurricane Irma blew through the Caribbean islands, battering an estimated 1.2 million people with roughly 185 mile-per-hour winds. Medical school students at the American…
Largest digital survey of the sky mapped billions of stars
By Mariella Moon From engadget The Pan-STARRS astronomers released two petabytes of data to the public. An international team of astronomers have released two petabytes of data from the Pan-STARRS project that’s also known as the “world’s largest digital sky…
$8.5M Caribbean villa set on UNESCO World Heritage Site heads to auction
(PRESS RELEASE) – A breathtaking villa built on a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in the picturesque Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia will sell to the highest bidder on February 28th through leading…
US tiny towns
The tiniest town in every state Part 5 By Sarah Schmalbruch From Insider Often, a state’s largest city is considered its best place to live. But there’s something to be said for rural towns too. We rounded up the least-populated…
Oil, the environment and the Caribbean
By David Jessop From The Caribbean Camera Earlier this month Exxon announced that that it had made a major new oil find off Guyana. It was, it said, the largest since it began exploration there in 2015. The company’s statement…
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Dutch to help tourism firms on storm-hit Caribbean isles
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The Dutch government Thursday unveiled a 2.48-million-euro (US$3-million) plan to compensate tourism businesses on two Caribbean islands, left reeling after last year’s hurricane. “I saw with my own eyes the devastating effect that Hurricane Irma…
Cricket: England Lions bracing for tough challenge in Caribbean conditions
From Guyana Chronicle LONDON, England (CMC) – England Lions left for the Caribbean yesterday, bracing for a tough challenge in foreign conditions, but confident of executing, following an intense training camp Down Under. The squad, headed by Test opener Keaton…
