Escape to your own private paradise on Oil Nut Bay in the British Virgin Islands
Written by Kaletha Henry The Cliffs: a hybrid of elegance and modernity in Nature’s Little Secrets The dream to getaway to one’s own private island is now a reality through Oil Nut Bay and the recent unveiling of their upscale…
CRFM Ministerial Sub-Committee on Flyingfish calls stakeholders to action
Fisheries ministers who met on Friday, 22 February 2013, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to review urgent governance and management issues challenging the seven Caribbean countries that currently harvest the Eastern Caribbean flyingfish (scientific name: Hirundichthys affinis), are…
School suspends 7-year-old for shaping breakfast pastry into ‘shape of a gun’
By Daily Mail Reporter Second-grader Josh Welch tried to bite his breakfast tart into a mountain shape but his teacher thought it resembled a gun. Baltimore school suspended the boy for two days A seven-year-old boy was suspended from school…
Florida high school student suspended for disarming gunman
Written by Alex Newman The New American A Florida teenager was suspended from his high school last week along with two others after forcibly disarming a fellow student who allegedly pointed a loaded gun and threatened to shoot another pupil on…
60,000 Border and customs agents told to take furloughs – [US customs wait times to increase to 150 to 200 percent]
By Todd Beamon Newsmax Sixty-thousand federal employees responsible for securing the nation’s borders and facilitating trade will be furloughed for as many as 14 days starting next month because of $85 billion in cross-government spending cuts. The federal government notified…
Knives On Planes: Airline staff, flight attendants react to new USA transport rules with anger
The Huffington Post UK By Jessica Elgot Furious airline staff have rounded on America’s Transport Security authority, claiming that the relaxation of the rules around carrying knives on planes will put them at risk. Passengers on US flights will soon…
Cayman Islands Dive 365 Project Is Completed
by Sport Diver Staff The famous dive sites in the Cayman Islands have been written about for decades. But despite being recognized as the birthplace of recreational diving and boasting legendary dive sites, these magical islands still had some secret…
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Kenny Chesney and Eric Church headline Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival
Multi-platinum artist and touring sensation Kenny Chesney will headline the inaugural Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival on Fort Lauderdale Beach scheduled for April 13-14, 2013. The event is presented by Landshark Lager. Platinum-selling country music artist and seven-time 2013…
Cash Hoard Grows by $187 Billion in Untaxed Overseas Profits
By Richard Rubin Bloomberg U.S. companies led by General Electric Co. (GE) and Pfizer Inc. (PFE) stockpiled an additional $187 billion in untaxed overseas profits over the past year, boosting their offshore holdings by 18.4 percent, according to data compiled…
Saw palmetto no help for enlarged prostate, study says
By David W Freeman /CBS News Saw palmetto offers no relief from symptoms of prostate enlargement, a.k.a. benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). That’s the stark finding of a new study that tested the popular herbal remedy in men suffering from BPH,…
