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Several dead, missing after minibus plunges into sea in St. Vincent By SNO Staff – Monday, January 12th, 2015 at 10:38 AM Three people are reported missing after a minibus carrying several passengers, including students, plunged into the sea in…
A Safari of a different stripe
IMAGE: Galapagos Safari3 By Jessica Festa From The Financialist When most people hear the word “safari,” they envision piling into a jeep in Africa in search of the “Big Five”—elephants, lions, leopards, Cape buffalo, and rhinos. But from Australia to…
Climate change discussed
From The Barbados Advocate One of the biggest challenges facing the world at this time is how to cope with the variability of climate. Dr. Adrian Cashman, Director of the Centre for Resources Management and Environment Studies (CERMES), made the…
Haiti pays tribute to quake tragedy’s dead
By: AFP From Seychelles News Agency Haiti pays tribute to quake tragedy’s dead (AFP) – Haiti marks the fifth anniversary Monday of the massive and deadly earthquake that ravaged an already desperately poor nation, against the backdrop of ongoing epidemic…
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Militants planning mass casualty attacks against West: UK From Business Insider London (AFP) – The head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 warned on Thursday that militant Islamists in Syria were planning “mass casualty attacks” in the West and that…
New Caribbean Book: “Wide Sargasso Sea”
Caribbean culture and history From crossref-it.info The naming of the West Indies Wide Sargasso Sea is set on two Caribbean islands, Jamaica and a ‘honeymoon island’. This is not named but is very like Dominica, where Jean Rhys was born….
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Jamaica media condemn attack on French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo From Caribbean360 CMC – The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) Wednesday condemned the attack on the building housing the Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left at least 12 people,…
January events at Camana Bay
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman (Thursday 8 January): From gaining a stamp for India in your culinary passport to sleeping in and serving up a homemade brunch to cheering on stand-up paddlers as they race across the finish line to dining…
Extreme athletes live-tweet one of the world’s most grueling free climbs
By Patrick Kulp From Mashable To those safe on the ground, Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell are just two tiny specks on the otherwise unbrokenly smooth half-mile high stretch of granite that is the Dawn Wall of Yosemite National Park’s…
It’s official: 2014 was California’s warmest year on record by a huge margin
By Patrick Kulp And Andrew Freedman Federal data released Thursday confirmed what climate scientists had already widely suspected: California had by far its warmest year ever recorded in 2014. In the midst of the state’s worst drought in more than…