By Jewel Fraser Contributing Writer ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago, Oct 1 2019 (IPS) — The Caribbean is currently deploying a new technology to help it build resilience to natural disasters. Known as LIDAR, the acronym for light detection and ...
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Trinidad Police Warn Against Vigilantism After Homeless Man Is Beaten To Death
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, October 4, 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), on Tuesday, urged people not to engage in vigilante justice, after a homeless man died at hospital, after being beaten by several ...
Read More »Man Given Life Sentence For Killing Niece Over A Pair Of Earrings In Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana October 4, 2019 (CMC) – A 22 –year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to murdering his 18-month old niece, over a pair of earrings in 2017. Justice Jo-Ann Barlow described the murder ...
Read More »Woman Who Stole Day-Old Baby Sentenced To Hard Labour In Prison in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica October 4, 2019 (CMC) – A 28-year-old woman, who pleaded guilty to stealing a day-old baby, named Sae’Breon, from the Victoria Jubilee hospital, here, has been sentenced to prison for three years and four months with hard labour. ...
Read More »Caribbean Airlines Launches Layaway Payment Plan
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, October 4, 2019 (CMC) – Regional carrier, Caribbean Airlines, announced, today, the launch of Caribbean Layaway, an interest-free layaway plan, which allows customers, travelling within a two to six-month period, to pay for their ...
Read More »When Parents Play Favourites, What Happens To The Children?
By Sheri Madigan and Jennifer Jenkins Guest Writers Many siblings, when they get together as adults, joke about which child was loved the most. But is it really a joke or is there an edge of truth that still rankles us? In ...
Read More »Can You Life-Hack Your Way To Love?
By Joseph Reagle Guest WriterThere’s never been a shortage of dating advice from family, friends and self-help authors. Yet in the digital age, people are turning to nerdy hacker-types as guides. At first, they might seem like an odd ...
Read More »Guyana Telephone And Telegraph Company Introduces 4G Technology
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 4, 2019 (CMC) – Local telecommunications provider, the Guyana Telephone And Telegraph Company (GTT) introduced Guyana’s first 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile network service, yesterday. Subscribers from Georgetown to Great Diamond (East Bank of Demerara), Lusignan ...
Read More »Former US President Richard Nixon’s Western White House On The Market
The thirty-seventh President of the United States, Richard Nixon, always enjoyed telling the American people what simple folk he and his wife, Pat, were, in order to appeal to the middle-class voters. Fond of saying that Pat wore plain cloth ...
Read More »Thanksgiving Turkey With Sweet Apple Stuffing
By Chef Selwyn Richards Culinary Specialist Ingredients 3/4 cup butter, cubed 1-1/2 cups celery, chopped 3/4 cup onion, chopped 9 cups day old whole wheat bread, cubed 3 cups apples, chopped fine 3/4 cup raisins 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 ...
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