Cocaine shipments through the Caribbean on the rise
By Maye Primera in Miami From El Pais Smugglers being forced to use alternative routes following crackdowns in Mexico At midnight on April 9, a US Customs border patrol discovered a 1.5-ton cocaine shipment on board a high-speed boat heading…
Nigeria abducted schoolgirls: Police reward offered
From BBC Parents have had not word about the fate of their abducted daughters Nigeria’s police have offered a $300,000 (£180,000) reward to anyone who can help locate and rescue more than 200 abducted schoolgirls. They were kidnapped more than…
New lifeline for storm-hit Caribbean Islands
By Natricia Duncan From The Voice High Wycombe group forms foundation to raise relief funds A new fundraising initiative has been launched to support cash-strapped Caribbean states left devastated by storms. The Caribbean Peoples Foundation, set up by a group…
Mental health tips for parents of teens, young adults
From Caribbean Life (StatePoint) If you are the parent of an older child or teen, you may not think about his or her day-to-day medical needs as often as you did during early childhood. But older kids also are dependent…
Caribbean International Holdings wholly owned subsidiary announces it has begun processing applicants for treatments via its website
Strategy is to Screen and Qualify Viable Applicants/Patients for Treatment in DR Through Regenerative BioScience, Inc. Treatments have already commenced SARASOTA, Fla., May 5, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Caribbean International Holdings (Pink Sheets:CIHN) through its subsidiary, Regenerative BioScience, Inc., (“RBS”)…
Medical Schools in region fight Caribbean flow
By Anemona Hartocollis From New York Times For a generation, medical schools in the Caribbean have attracted thousands of American students to their tiny island havens by promising that during their third and fourth years, the students would get crucial…
Another security flaw gets the Heartbleed treatment, but don’t believe the hype
By Christina Warren From Mashable Breathless reports of a new security flaw affecting OpenID and OAuth — the technology that powers the identity logins for services such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google and LinkedIn — hit the news Friday. Dubbed “Covert…
NASA’s new spacesuit design looks like something from ‘Tron’
By Samantha Murphy Kelly From Mashable As engineers and scientists work hard to build technologies that astronauts could one day use to live and work on Mars, the future of spacesuits is looking stylish too. Or at least, fittingly,…
Discrimination associated with mental health woes in black teens
From Science Codex VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The vast majority of African-American and Afro-Caribbean youth face racial discrimination, and these experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental health problems, according to a study to be presented Saturday, May…
Caribbean religious leaders inspire IMF Sunday schools
By Eric LeCompte From Caribbean360 WASHINGTON D.C., United States, IPS – Last Fall, I witnessed the Grenada Council of Churches insert themselves into negotiations between their government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) around the island’s debt restructuring and presumed…
