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Cayman Islands: West Bay Community Dog Wash is this Sunday From CARE – Cayman Animal Rescue Enthusiasts Cayman Islands utility company explains Tuesday’s (29) outage on Grand Cayman On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, customers in parts of East End, Bodden…
SEC accuses Biotech VC of siphoning funds
By Ross Todd, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — Prominent biotech venture capitalist G. Steven Burrill has agreed to pay nearly $5.8 million to settle charges that he redirected money from one of his funds to prop up other flagging investments…
Dogs know best: New study shows your pup can tell how you feel
By JACQUELINE BOYD for The Conversation From Mashable Can dogs tell when we are happy, sad or angry? As a dog owner, I feel confident not only that I can tell what kind of emotional state my pets are in, but…
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Deadly plants of the Caribbean
By IMA ODUO From Pink Pangea The plants here in Guadeloupe are out to kill you. You may think I’m exaggerating, but don’t underestimate the deadly potential of nature. The other day, as I was walking through Place de la Victoire…
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Toxic Ash: A Caribbean time bomb Part 1 – Something happened in Arroyo Barril
By Omar Alfonso From Caribbean360 This is part one of a three-part investigative series produced by Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, in collaboration with La Perla del Sur newspaper, about the environmental and health threat posed by coal ash…
More Caribbean countries confirm Zika cases
From CARIBflame The Caribbean Region continues to wrestle with the mosquito-borne Zika Virus and 15 Caribbean countries have confirmed cases. The region’s leading health body, the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA) has provided an update on Zika in the…
One dead, several injured in killer bee attack in Guyana
From Caribbean360 GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Monday March 28, 2016 – One man was killed and several others were injured, including a man who is listed in critical condition, after they were attacked by a swarm of African killer bees at Bath…
Merck wins patent battle over hepatitis c drugs
By Scott Graham, From The Recorder Gilead Sciences Inc.’s once impermeable defense of its hepatitis C medications has been cracked. Merck & Co. Inc. won a jury verdict of validity Tuesday on two patents covering the key ingredient in the…
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Elmo teaches kids in Caribbean
Elmo Teaches Kids in Caribbean, Latin America About Zika From NBC New York Channel 4 The Sesame Street character is featured in two 30-second videos Sesame Street has joined forces with the Pan American Health Organization to teach kids how…
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The Economist: Caribbean prisons – Blue seas, black holes
By The Economist From Guyanese Online “FREEDOM! We want freedom!” cried inmates of the Camp Street prison in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown. But in three days of unrest that began on March 2nd, 17 of them burnt to death. The rioting…
