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Tobago Shark Attack Man Stable, Can Communicate. Beaches Still Closed.

A British man seriously injured in a shark attack in Tobago is “aware of what is happening” and “able to communicate”, his wife has said, according to BBC reports. However the full extent of his wounds is still under investigation. Peter Smith, 64, was bathing standing near the shore in waist-deep water when he was […]

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PAHO Taking Caribbean Digital To Improve Healthcare, Prepare For Pandemics.

The president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Ilan Goldfajn, and the director of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Jarbas Barbosa, signed an finance agreement that will help accelerate the digital transformation of health services, strengthen primary healthcare, and enhance pandemic preparedness across the whole of the  Latin American and the Caribbean region. The new […]

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Jamaica Fights Drought By Trucking Water To Farms.

The Jamaican government has bought two new water trucks which will be used to carry water to remote farms in times of drought, it was announced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining. The Shacman F3000 trucks are made in China and have a maximum speed of 90 mph. The units, each with a […]

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The Third Man–Turks Detain Another American Tourist With Bullets In Backpack.

A third American tourist in three months has been arrested for bringing bullets to Turks and Caicos while on vacation. Tyler Scott Wenrich’s wife said the two bullets authorities found in his suitcase were there accidentally. Now he’s facing the possibility of more than a decade in prison after being stopped while disembarking from a […]

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Guyana’s Ali Calls For More Investment In West Indies Cricket Talent.

President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali has called for new regional legislation that could revive the West Indies as a world power in cricket that could have a say in any changes in the laws of cricket. This was his charge during the opening ceremony of the inaugural CARICOM Regional Cricket Conference, held at the Hyatt […]

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Kennedy Jr. Standing Firm As Independent After Claiming Team Trump Asked Him To Be Vice-President Candidate.

November, will see another US presidential election. While the two main candidates are two experienced men,  sitting President and long-time Senator from Delaware, Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump, there is a third candidate with a famous name in the running who could steal votes from both the main candidates. But nobody quite knows […]

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Rising Unemployment In Canada As Immigration ‘Overshoots’.

Canada is one of the world’s premium immigrant countries, and it has an unusual feature. If foreign students go to university in Canada and get degrees, then they can usually obtain permanent residency and eventually citizenship in Canada. Since the foreign students have to pay a lot of money to Canada for their education, this […]

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BVI Social Workers Telling Children Of All The Islands To Speak Up.

Social Workers from the BVI Social Development Department have visited several schools on the sister islands to deliver messages on child abuse prevention and awareness. The officers visited the Bregado Flax Educational Centre, the Robinson O’Neal Memorial Primary School and the Ciboney Centre for Excellence on Virgin Gorda on April 25 to educate children on […]

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Haiti’s New Leadership Already Under Pressure To Find Some Way To Stop The Violence.

The Transitional Presidential council was finally installed in yesterday in Haiti, after a month of inexplicable delays, and they are confronted right away with a shopping-list of the immediate urgent needs of Haitians, not-so-trivial items like security, food, and jobs. After a long gestation the nine members of the council (two of whom are “nonvoting”) […]

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“Nobody Saw The Shark Coming”: Tobago Tourist Beach Bather In Intensive Care After ‘Jaws’ Attack.

In a horror attack reminiscent of the sensational seventies movie Jaws, a British tourist was attacked from behind by a shark that swam up on a group of early-morning bathers at an idyllic beach in the island of Tobago. The 64-year-old victim is in hospital in intensive care fighting for his life with serious injuries […]

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