Scientists: Cuba quake unusual, but recent Caribbean activity fairly typical
By David Smiley From Miami Herald The Enriquillo and Septentrional faults lie between the Caribbean and North American plates, which move against each other and make for an active seismic area in the Caribbean. That friction caused Monday morning’s quake…
New Clinical Psychology Service
Chatterbox is excited to be able to offer a brand new service. We now have a Clinical Psychologist called Grace Ranke, who is available to work with children and adults. She has been working in a world-renowned specialist clinic for…
Portable charging device jump-starts your dead smartphone battery
By Alex Magdaleno From Mashable Van Halen has likely been on repeat in the Native Union offices after the smashing success of the Kickstarter campaign for its new product Jump. It’s an answer to the frustrating issue of the dead…
Trinidad high court dismisses claims filed by insurance agents against CLICO
From Caribbean360 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday January 16, 2014, CMC – A High Court judge has dismissed claims filed by two insurance agents challenging the constitutionality of the Central Bank (Amendment) Act 2011, which they said prevented them from taking legal…
US War on Drugs is an abysmal failure
By Michael Kelley From Business Insider The ‘First Global Snapshot’ Of The Drug War Used Government Data To Prove That It’s An Abysmal Failure A new study used governmental data to prove that the war on drugs war has been…
Canned cocaine tampered with, says Trinidad company
By Rhondor Dowlat By Caribbean News Now contributor PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — According to SM Jaleel & Co Ltd, which describes itself as Trinidad and Tobago’s number one exporter of non-petrochemical products, a 20-foot container of cans labeled as…
Destination paradise [Cayman is one – of course!]
By Maura McBride From Irish Independent For Ireland’s young professionals, utopian destinations are no longer just to be explored while on holiday. Twenty and thirty-somethings are moving to far-flung destinations in search of higher pay and a better quality of…
Caribbean attack: former island health boss in hospital, husband killed
By Lucy Morgan From Isle of Wight Radio A former Chief Executive of St Mary’s Hospital is being treated in hospital in St Lucia after her husband was killed in an attack. 62-year-old Roger Pratt from Warwickshire died when he…
The CIA’s 1971 secret report on the Senkaku Islands dispute
From Tofugu Tensions have started flaring up again in regards to the Senkaku Islands, though to be honest that’s been going on for a while now. I brought the islands up in my “Where is Japan?” post, quite a while…
Pope won’t be lenient with predator priests: ex-prosecutor
By Philip Pullella From Sun Sentinel VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis will not show leniency towards pedophile priests because truth and justice are more important than protecting the Church, the Vatican’s former sex crimes prosecutor said on Saturday. Monsignor…
