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Jamaica: Microcredit act to be tabled within 12 months
By Douglas Mcintosh From JIS Story Highlights “We are seized of the importance of the Microcredit Act. We have (several) pieces of legislation, of which the Microcredit Act is an important component, that we intend to table in the House…
Fox AI predicts a movie’s audience based on its trailer
By Jon Fingas From engadget Get ready for an era where algorithms shape movie previews. Modern movie trailers are already cynical exercises in attention grabbing (such as the social media-friendly burst of imagery at the start of many clips), but…
OP-ED: 30th July – World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
By Mahimbo Mdoe – UNICEF Representative and Alice H. Shackelford – UN Women Representative After being abducted, two young South Africans, one a 20 year old woman and the other a 14 year old boy, were smuggled across borders and…
Guyana: Husband kills wife by cracking her skull with a hammer
By Allan Watkins From Guyana Guardian A woman who always goes to the police station to force the lawmen to release her husband every time he is arrested for beating her, would no longer be around to save her abuser….
Guyana: She was murdered! – We are not buying that suicide story
By Andrea Fernandes From Guyana Guardian Close to a year after the body of a British government employee was discovered hanging from a rope in the home where she was staying in Guyana, family members and close friends of the…
CHTA congratulates Karolin Troubetzkoy on SLHTA election
Monday, July 30, 2018 — Miami, Florida – Frank Comito, CEO and Director General of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), congratulated the St. Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA) on the election of Karolin Troubetzkoy as its new president….
True/False: Radio stations mostly play songs music companies pay them to play
By Carolyn Gilbert & Leigh Jacobs From All Access Music group Last week we revealed one of the new findings in our twelfth and latest NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study. Almost half the respondents in our latest sample of 3,049 persons…
Syria war: IS ‘seized women and children’ in Sweida attack
From BBC Islamic State (IS) militants are holding more than 30 women and children hostage in south-western Syria, a monitor and local media say. They are thought to have been seized during a wave of deadly IS attacks in Suweida…
Artaic reinvents
Artaic reinvents the mosaic tile medium with technology, robots and custom colors By Lena Katz From Forbes This Cayman Islands vacation villa features a giant undersea-inspired mosaic swimming pool floor. Made from thousands of intricately colored vitreous glass tiles, the…
CEYA Later Pam!
Bridgetown, BARBADOS, July 30, 2018. The Caribbean Export Development Agency officially said farewell to its longest standing Executive Director, Pamela Coke-Hamilton on Friday 27th July 2018 and announced the 2018 Caribbean Exporter of the Year Awards (CEYA) to be held…
