Cuban Foreign Minister receives the Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Reproduced courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cuba (Cubaminrex) Friday, September 21, 2018 — The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, received on Thursday 20th September the Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States…
Spooked camel injures 6 children at Pittsburgh circus
By: Laura Goldman From Care2 You might think that the demise of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—which announced before it shut down last year that it would no longer use live elephants—would be a wake-up call for…
What can be done for workers in homes?
By Joanna Ewart-James, Freedom United Last week, the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Ms. Urmila Bhoola, released a shocking report[1] on the plight of potentially millions of marginalized migrant women who are domestic workers around the world, too…
Becoming American citizens
Powerful photos of people becoming American citizens By Jackie Nappo From Business Insider New citizens stand during the Pledge of Allegiance at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library in Manhattan Naturalization…
Another judge, another woman, another slap in the face
By Sejal Singh From The Cut Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the golden child of Washington’s “respectable” right, is on the verge of confirmation to the Supreme Court, fulfilling the decades-long conservative project of taking over American courts. His anointment had seemed…
To better understand their Puerto Rican students, Philly teachers travel to Caribbean
By Jesenia De Moya Correa From The Inquirer It’s Tuesday morning math class for seventh graders at Julia de Burgos Elementary School in North Philadelphia. They’ve been working with scientific calculators. “We are working on Page 16 now. En la…
Blood pressure study could prevent thousands of heart attacks, strokes
By Zoe Papadakis A breakthrough blood pressure study could prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes each year and it all has to do with genetics, experts announced Monday. The discovery was made by researchers from Queen Mary University of…
T&T turns to governing body in bid to have disqualification overturned
From Antigua Observer PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago Rugby Football Union (TTRFU) has turned to the sport’s governing body, World Rugby, in an attempt to have their disqualification from this year’s Rugby Americas North (RAN)…
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Cayman Islands: CORRECTED – Liquor store robbed on West Bay Road
CORRECTIONS TO BELOW FROM RCIPS Further to the below press release: The robbery took place just after 9:40PM on Saturday night 22 September. There were no shots fired during the incident nor were there any injuries as a result of…