Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories – After 45 days in prison/ Bangladesh scraps job quota/Amnesty International alledges/Sudan’s health crisis
– After 45 Days in Prison, Daniel Jadue is Dismissed as Mayor of Recoleta – Bangladesh’s Supreme Court Scraps Most of Government Job Quota Amid Widespread Protests and Violence – Amnesty International Alleges Boluarte May Have Deliberately Planned Violent Repression…
Ethiopia landslide rescuers pull 229 bodies from mud
By Kalkidan Yibeltal in Addis Ababa & Christy Cooney in London From BBC News Footage showed hundreds of people gathered at the scene. Reuters Rescue teams have so far retrieved the bodies of 229 people killed in two landslides in…
Study: Big Shift in Users of GLP-1 Meds Like Ozempic
Adobe Stock From Newsmax The boom in using GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic to treat obesity has resulted in a bust regarding the drugs’ original purpose, which was to treat Type 2 diabetes, a new study finds. New prescriptions for these drugs have…
Just 10 Minutes in Nature Boosts Mental Health
Adobe Stock From Newsmax Spending time in nature can provide a boost for people with mental illness, a new review finds. Even as little as 10 minutes spent in a city park can improve a person’s symptoms, researchers found.Don’t Spend a…
Scientists Create a ‘Google Earth’ of the Human Heart
University College London By Lynn C. Allison From Newsmax Scientists have created a unique atlas of the human heart that can take you into its internal workings just like Google Earth. The video offers “unprecedented 3D detail” of the organ to help…
How Neurologists Keep Their Brains Sharp
Dreamstime By Lynn C. Allison From Newsmax Our brains thrive on rest and rejuvenation, but in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world, it’s hard to turn off the noise and chatter and think clearly. It is also difficult to calm our minds to get…
The Caribbean stands tall in the global fight for Blue Justice
In the photo above: Representatives from Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago attended the Blue Justice Community Gathering held in June 2024 at Oscarsborg, Norway..The Caribbean…
Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
This all-ages education center reminds us that “we are a part of this earth, not apart from it.”
Cayman: Premier Absent from Parliament
Premier Honourable Juliana O’Connor-Connolly will not be in this week’s Fourth Meeting of the 2023-2024 Parliamentary Session, as she has tested positive for COVID-19. In her absence, Deputy Premier Hon. Andre Ebanks will be Acting Premier while Minister of Tourism…
Many Cases of ‘Dementia’ May Be Liver Cirrhosis
Adobe Stock A new study of aging U.S. veterans finds that one in every 10 who have been diagnosed with dementia might actually have brain impairments caused by liver cirrhosis. It’s a condition called hepatic encephalopathy, and it’s often treatable,…
