Gadget of the week
Measuring stuff with this $44 laser gadget is way more fun than it should be By Maren Estrada From BGR You know how sometimes you get your hands on a new gadget and you have so much fun playing with…
Cricket: The British are coming
BY GEORGE ALLEYNE From Caribbean Life By copping five matches in an English cricket team tour from January, Barbados has rebounded from the loss suffered when it failed to get to host a game in the Women’s Cricket World Cup…
Judge: Bankruptcy applies to all Puerto Rico Catholic churches
By Eva Lloréns Vélez From Caribbean Business SAN JUAN – Federal bankruptcy Judge Edward Godoy decided Friday that Archdiocese of San Juan’s bankruptcy filing applies to all Catholic churches in Puerto Rico. This means that both the Archdiocese of Mayagüez…
Venezuelan diplomat defends viability of Petro cryptocurrency
By Youri Kemp From Caribbean News Now CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan charge d’affaires in Barbados, Alvaro Sanchez Cordero, has responded directly to a Caribbean News Now report on the viability and efficacy of the Venezuelan, oil backed, cryptocurrency, the “Petro”,…
Reuters special report challenges viability of Venezuelan cryptocurrency
By Youri Kemp From Caribbean News Now CARACAS, Venezuela — A special report by Reuters news agency on August 30, 2018, said the Venezuelan cryptocurrency, the Petro, announced by the government in December 2017 and launched in February 2018 by…
Poetry and natural beauty on the Island of Guadeloupe
By Steve Bergsman Travel Writers From Creators.Com As my wife and I stood at the edge of the Guadeloupe rainforest contemplating the hike to a waterfall, a well-traveled car pulled up alongside us. Luckily the man behind the steering wheel…
Local justice versus the CCJ – a personal experience
By Norris Mitchell, Grenada, From Caribbean News Now Letter: Dear Sir: The announcement by the prime minister to hold a second referendum in November of this year, in order to accede to the appellate court of the CCJ as a…
St Lucia minister admits border agency consultation process ‘flawed’ as Customs sick-out begins to bite
By Melanius Alphonse From Caribbean News Now associate editor CASTRIES, St Lucia — In a somewhat bizarre turn of events, minister for the public service in the Office of the Prime Minister, Dr Ubaldus Raymond, has not only admitted that…
Jacqueline Kennedy’s iconic outfits
13 iconic outfits former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore By Lucy Yang Sep. From Business Insider A lifelong champion of the arts and outspoken preservationist, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was also one of the most influential fashion icons of her…
Dallas officer who killed black man also shot a man in 2017
By RYAN TARINELLI, Associated Press From US News The Dallas police officer who says she mistakenly went to the wrong apartment after work earlier this week and fatally shot a black man also had fired her weapon and wounded a…