WHO approves world’s first-ever dengue vaccine
By Ted Andersen/Geneva From TIME The painful and sometimes deadly mosquito-borne disease is on the rise, but a new vaccine could help the most vulnerable populations The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday endorsed the world’s first-ever vaccine for dengue…
Chicken odour ‘prevents malaria’ research in Ethiopia finds
From BBC The smell from a live chicken could help protect against malaria, researchers have found. Ethiopian and Swedish scientists discovered that malarial mosquitoes tend to avoid chickens and other birds. The experiments, conducted in western Ethiopia, included suspending a…
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Grand Cayman: South Sound Road Warning Motorists in the South Sound area will this week see the beginning of work to widen the section of road between Bel Air Drive and the South Sound dock. Work will start Thursday…
We cannot keep jumping from crisis to crisis, IFAD’s Chief Strategist to tell world leaders in Istanbul
Rome, 19 May 2016 – With more than 60 million people across the world reeling from the drought caused by El Niño, Josefina Stubbs from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has a strong message for leaders gathering…
UN agricultural agency and European Union step up efforts to combat illegal timber trade
13 May 2016 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO) and the European Union (EU) will step up joint efforts to support tropical timber-producing countries in curbing illegal logging, improving forest governance and promoting the trade of legally sourced…
Demolishing srereotypes
Clark University’s Caribbean and African students demolish stereotypes By Kaiomi Inniss From Odyssey All Africans are whaaat? Stereotypes; they are everywhere. Usually perpetuated by the mass media, stereotypes usually become labels for certain cultures, races, ethnicities and/or religions. Caribbean and…
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Film development: call for submissions
Call for Submissions: Film Development and Production Incubator for Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora Producers By CaribbeanTales | Shadow and Act April 18, 2016 at 2:46PM The CaribbeanTales Incubator (CTI) is a year-round film development and production hub for Caribbean and…
Mysterious fairy circles
Mysterious fairy circles discovered in Australian outback By Jenni Ryall From Mashable A mysterious landscape phenomenon known as fairy circles has been found in the Australian outback. The fairy circles are characterised by a hexagonal organisation of soil gaps between…
Guyana becomes 57th member of the Islamic Bank
By Ray Chickrie From Caribbean News Now GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is now a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), after joining the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in 1998, according to a press release from the ministry of finance…
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Jamaican woman becomes queen in Nigeria
A Jamaican woman became the queen in a Yoruba kingdom, and her people are so excited, they made a story out of it. The Imperial ruler of Iwo kingdom, Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Rasheed Adewale Akanbi, met and married his…
