Eclipze “PINK OUT MONTH” for Breast Cancer Awareness
We are very pleased to announce that Eclipze Hair Design & Day Spa will be hosting our “PINK OUT MONTH” for Breast Cancer awareness in October 2021! After 20 years of doing an Annual Cut-a-thon, covid has made them put…
IMF / Global Financial Stability Report October 2021 Forecast
The IMF is warning in its latest Global Financial Stability Report that Covid-19’s lingering impact is fading optimism among investors, which could lead to financial tightening in the medium term, Tuesday (October 12). “Amid the prolonged and painful pandemic, financial…
IMF / World Economic Outlook October 2021 Forecast
The IMF is lowering its global growth projection for 2021 slightly to 5.9 percent while keeping it unchanged for 2022 at 4.9 percent. However, this modest headline revision masks large downgrades for some countries the Fund reports in its World…
Why record numbers of workers are quitting and striking
Taken together with a sharp increase in union strikes, the mass resignations of individuals indicate a deep worker dissatisfaction across the nation. By Sonali Kolhatkar / Independent Media Institute On September 14, a young woman in Louisiana named Beth McGrath…
UK: Industry reaction to the latest Rightmove House Price Index
The latest Rightmove House Price index shows that: – ● Price of property coming to market jumps by 1.8% (+£5,983) this month, the biggest rise at this time of year since October 2015 ● Market delivers a ‘full house’ for first time…
COVID-Era ‘Great Resignation’ has workers forcing employers to pay up
By Eric Mack The lockdowns and shelter-in-place actions during the COVID-19 pandemic have ushered in “The Great Resignation,” according to an organizational psychologist, and one that has Bank of America projecting “structural changes to the workforce” for years to come. Apparently, Americans…
Upcoming Caribbean Magazine Plus Short Story Contest 2021/2022
October 12, 2021: After the success of the inaugural Caribbean Magazine Plus (CMP) Poetry Contest 2021, Arawak Media and CMP is coming back again this Friday to launch the CMP Short Story Competition to run until January 14, 2022. Already…
UK: Even a global pandemic can’t rattle rental yields as market stays strong
By James Lockett From PropergandaPR Research by nationwide buy-to-let specialist, Sequre Property Investment, has revealed which regions of the UK buy-to-let market have best weathered the rental market uncertainty posed by the pandemic and currently present the best yields for UK…
‘Naively ambitious’: How COVAX failed on its promise to vaccinate the world
By Olivia Goldhill — STAT and Rosa Furneaux — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism round the world this spring, country after country awaited their first Covid-19 vaccine shipments. They’d been promised deliveries by COVAX, the ambitious global collaboration set up to give people in…
IMF / 2021 Annual Meetings Advancer
The IMF and World Bank are set to launch a hybrid version of their Annual Meetings in Washington, DC next week (October 12-23). The Fund will launch the World Economic Outlook forecast for global growth on Tuesday showing that COVID-19…