(NC) Salads have a host of bountiful nutrients, but it can be easy to get stuck eating the same kind every day. To help get you of this rut, Tom Filippou, executive chef for President’s Choice cooking school, encourages you ...
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How To Plan The Perfect Winter Getaway
(NC) Whether your travel style is more sun, sand and fun or learn, explore and history, everyone can use a vacation this time of year. Check out these tips for a memorable, stress-free adventure. 1. Do your research. Want a ...
Read More »Every Year 700 Million People Fall Ill From Contaminated Food
By Baher Kamal IPS Contributing Writer ROME, Italy February 11, 2017 (IPS) — It may sound like an endless tale of modern seven plagues: mad cows, avian flu, led-poisoned fish, swine fever, desert locusts being the most dangerous of migratory ...
Read More »US And EU Food Standards Major Hurdle For Caribbean Exporters
By Jewel Fraser IPS Contributing Writer PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 11, 2017 (IPS) — As Caricom countries struggle to move away from their traditional reliance on a single industry or major crop in the face of growing ...
Read More »2017 African Canadian Achievement Awards of Excellence Recipients Announced
Saturday, February 11, 2017 — Earlier this week, The Selection Committee of the African Canadian Achievement Awards of Excellence (ACAA) announced the recipients of the organisation’s prestigious awards for 2017. The 15 distinguished, accomplished individuals — from a wide variety ...
Read More »Guyanese Protest Parking Meters In Georgetown
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 4, 2017 (CMC) – Hundreds of people, including students and business executives, took to the streets here, yesterday, protesting the introduction of parking meters in the capital. But while the Movement Against Parking Meters was able to ...
Read More »JN Bank Commences Operations With A Covenant With Members
ST. ANDREW, Jamaica February 3, 2017 — The Jamaica National Group launched Jamaica’s first commercial bank owned by its “savers and borrowers”, JN Bank, on Wednesday, announcing a covenant with its members and Jamaicans to treat them with dignity and ...
Read More »Shocks For Developing Countries From US President Trump’s First Days In Office
By Martin Khor IPS Guest Writer PENANG, Malaysia February 1, 2017 (IPS) — His first days in office indicate that President Donald Trump intends to implement what he promised, with serious consequences for the future of the United Nations, trade, ...
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