How 3D printing is building a new future
By Lyndsey Gilpin From ZDNet Summary: Perhaps no technology has been overhyped more than 3D printing in recent years, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t delivering real disruption. Here’s how, and what’s still holding it back. 3D printing has recently…
Caribbean Voices
By Tony Martin From Caribbean Beat Issue 56 “Nothing was created in the West Indies”, V.S. Naipaul famously wrote. Yet many of the earliest writers and thinkers in the Americas were Caribbean men and women, creating histories, novels, essays, poems,…
Indonesian boat sinks
From ITV Two Brits rescued but 15 missing as Indonesian boat sinks Two Brits are in hospital after being rescued from a boat which sank while travelling between islands in Indonesia. Fifteen other people remain missing. The Foreign Office said…
Steady imports seen in second-half 2014 [Survey]
From Global Sources Many volume buyers expect level business in the months ahead, results of Global Sources’ latest buyer survey reveal. More than 1,300 importers participated in the survey, which focused on second-half 2014 projections. Over 60 percent of surveyed…
Puerto Rico’s population shrinks as residents move to US
From Caribbean360 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Thursday August 14, 2014 – A new study has found that Puerto Rico has undergone such a dramatic population shift that there are now over a million more Puerto Ricans on the US mainland…
Daily Buzz reports “Real mermaid infant washes ashore in the Caribbean”
No its not April Fools Day but according to the website Daily Buzz Live a “Real Mermaid Infant Washes Ashore In The Caribbean” and “According to NOAA they are growing in massive numbers”. I leave you without comment the whole…
Cricket: Barbados Tridents win rain-marred CPL final
From ESPNcricinfo Barbados Tridents 152 for 6 (Smith 59, Mailk 55, Santokie 3-19) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 107 for 4 (Hafeez 28, Holder 2-18) by eight runs (D/L method) In a final plagued with rain interruptions, Barbados Tridents won the…
Caribbean Philosophical Association neeting: “Shifting the Geography of Reason XII—Technologies of Liberation”
From Repeating Islands I love the theme for next year’s Caribbean Philosophical Association 2015 Annual Meeting, “Shifting the Geography of Reason XII: Technologies of Liberation;” quite a propos, since next year will also be Frantz Fanon’s 90th birthday. The meeting…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
British singer Cliff Richard subject of police investigation into sexual assault on boy
Sir Michael Parkinson brands Cliff investigation a ‘witch hunt’ From ITV Sir Michael Parkinson has told ITV News the investigation into his friend Sir Cliff Richard and others “feels like some sort of witch hunt”. He said anyone who has…
