Happy Birthday: Queen Elizabeth II turned 93 on Easter Sunday
From Newsmax Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 93rd birthday, which this year coincides with Easter Sunday. The queen is marking Easter by attending a service with other senior royals at St. George’s Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle,…
Cricket: Wehby to head task force on corporate governance reform
From Windies ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies announced today that Jamaica senator Don Wehby has been appointed chairman of a Task Force on Corporate Governance Reform. The purpose of the Task Force is to help ensure that the…
Bodies of missing New York couple on Caribbean vacation may have been found
From The Daily Beast Officials in the Dominican Republic have recovered two unidentified bodies that they believe are the New York couple who went missing in March, CNN reports. Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle were expected to return to New…
Anti-Bird netting a danger to wildlife everywhere
By Kelly Wong from Care2 North Norfolk District Council has bowed to pressure to remove some anti-bird netting from cliffs. The netting was meant to deter sand martins from returning to their nesting grounds on the Bacton cliffs of the Norfolk coast. But it…
Opinion: Venezuela is in the process of political cleansing
By Jolly Green Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has said he wants a million more people to join his civilian militia by the end of the year [2019]. “With your rifles on your shoulders, be ready to defend the fatherland and…
The once and future Notre-Dame de Paris
By Justin Davidson From New York Mag The terrible thing about destruction is that it can happen so fast. Almost as soon as the pillar of bilious smoke appeared on the Paris skyline, it seemed foregone that flames would consume…
Columbine anniversary: How a notorious mass shooting forever changed the way Americans go to school
By Andrew Buncombe From Independent UK For the generation that followed, armed guards and active shooter drills are as commonplace as homework Like millions, Greg Crane, a supervisor of a Texas police SWAT team, watched in horror as the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High…
Look Out! Hurricane Season predicted as average, so prepare for the worst
By Dan Rattiner From Dan’s Papers This year, all are predicting there will be a total of 12 to 14 named storms. June 1 is the start of hurricane season every year. From then through to the end of October, we all…
Protect endangered species from mass extinction this Earth Day
By Brianna Lynne From Care2 Earth Day has always served as an important reminder to protect our planet. But this year — in the midst of climate change, a plastic pollution crisis and a sixth mass extinction — Earth Day seems even…
Puzzles for April 23 2019 Number search/Sudoku/Word search/Crossword
TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE #1 YESTERDAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE # 4 SOLUTION