China and US teams bypass Washington and go straight to Buenos Aires for trade war talks
By Zhou Xin From South China Morning Post US and China trade negotiation teams change venue for high-level talks at last minute New venue intended to help prepare ground for Xi-Trump G20 meeting Chinese and American trade negotiators have made…
Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along
By Ron Miller From TechCrunch Diane Greene announced on Friday that she was stepping down after three years running Google’s cloud business. She will stay on until the first of the year to help her successor, Thomas Kurian in the transition. He…
A Nigerian infant was born with message written on her hands saying Jesus is coming back.
From Snopes On 4 November 2016, a web site called PeopleMagazine.co.za (which appears to be a knock-off of the legitimate celebrity and news publication People Magazine, whose domain is people.com) posted a strange story claiming that a baby girl had…
How to stay anonymous online
Online file sharing is sweeping over businesses in the age of technology. File sharing allows internal data to be transferred and archived digitally, in a centralized location that employees can access from any computer connected to the Internet. According to…
100-year-old WWII Veteran awarded French Legion of Honor
From Newsmax The French government on Monday awarded its highest honor to a 100-year-old Kentucky man who fought in World War II. Retired Lt. Col. William Pollard was awarded the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony at the Kentucky…
Chicago lift fall: Six survive 875 North Michigan Avenue drama
From BBC People trapped in a falling lift in the US city of Chicago thought they were going to die as they plummeted 84 floors to the ground. Six people, including a pregnant woman, fell from the 95th to the…
Whatever happened to Thanksgiving?
Dr. Dobson’s November Newsletter Dear Friends, I want to devote this letter to a review of the history of this great country. Thanksgiving Day will soon be upon us, and it is a time to remember, and to tell our…
How seniors can rev up their love lives
By Lynn Allison From Newsmax Experts say that your sex drive can stay high even in your senior years. But all too often, we lose energy as we age and this affects every aspect of our lives, from the boardroom…
Barbados government signs US$100 million loan agreement with IDB
From Caribbean News Now BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the government of Barbados have formalized a historic loan agreement for US$100 million to support the Barbados Economic and Recovery Transformation (BERT) Plan. Having pledged the IDB’s…
Traffickers paying Guyanese girls airline tickets to come to Barbados
By Andrea Fernandes From Guyana Guardian In the wake of revelations that an alarming number of Guyanese women are prostituting in Barbados, the Island’s Minister of Home Affairs Edmund Hinckson has expressed the belief that a sophisticated human trafficking network…