NOAA, Hurricane Hunters team up for awareness tour
By Maj. Marnee A.C. Losurdo, 403rd Wing Public Affairs From Air Force Reserve Command 5/12/2014 – KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. — An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircrew with their WC-130J aircraft and a team of National Oceanic and…
Arrogance’ of ignoring need for sleep
By James Gallagher, Health and science reporter, BBC News Society has become “supremely arrogant” in ignoring the importance of sleep, leading researchers have told the BBC’s Day of the Body Clock. Scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Manchester and Surrey universities…
The iPhone 6 may deliver a devastating blow to iPad sales
By Tero Kuittinen From BGR We’ve known for a while that tablet market growth has not been what people expected. Apple’s double digit sales decline of iPad units in the March quarter was one ill omen. Nevertheless, the new Morgan…
Progress on Caribbean tourism marketing
From Barnacle MIAMI (May 13, 2014) – The Caribbean Tourism Development Company (CTDC)’s website CaribbeanTravel.com is making significant strides in promoting the region to the world. Meeting in Miami this month the CTDC board learned that 28 percent of visitors…
Support programme for smokers to quit in Cayman
From Cayman Islands Public Health Department The Public Health Department is urging members of the public to enlist in its ‘I Can Quit’ smoking cessation programme. Scheduled to begin on 4 June 2014, the programme will run for seven weeks…
Guyana to test persons entering country who exhibit Chikungunya symptoms
From Caribbean360 GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Wednesday May 14, 2014, CMC – Guyana says it will conduct tests on persons entering the country who may be experiencing signs of fever, head aches, pains to the joints and eyes as it seeks to…
Custom controller lets disabled man dig into Minecraft using his eyebrows
By Emily Price From Engadget Alexander Kostov has spinal muscular atrophy, a disease that makes impossible for him to use most traditional game controllers. Rather than let that hold him back, he just got creative with the help of UK-based…
Operation Smile: Doctors remove 4-pound tumor from girl’s face
By Loren Grush From Fox News In 2011, Larry O’Reilly traveled to the Caribbean nation of Haiti, to aid those who had been devastated by the massive earthquake that had occurred a year earlier. During his stay, O’Reilly visited a…
Rapper explains why he cut off his penis and jumped from balcony
From Caribbean360 CALIFORNIA, United States, Wednesday May 14, 2014 – Andre Johnson, the Los Angeles rapper who hacked off his genitalia before taking a dive from a second storey balcony in North Hollywood, has finally spoken out about what motivated…
Driving while pregnant might result in more crashes
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist One of the main culprits blamed for car accidents is that dastardly villain, Distraction. And if there’s one time in her life when a woman might be just a wee bit distracted, it’s when…
