BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 12, 2019 (CMC) – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, says progress has been made, regarding the future direction of the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, following a more than four hour meeting, here, ...
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UN Pays Homage To Staffers Who Died In Fatal Ethiopian Airlines Plane Crash
By Thalif Deen Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York March 12, 2019 (IPS) — The United Nations headquarters is in mourning – and the UN flag is at half mast. The deaths of 21 UN staffers on March 10, on ...
Read More »Canadian University Professor, Who Died In Ethiopian Airlines Crash, Mourned
By Sam Olukoya Contributing Writer LAGOS, Nigeria, March 12, 2019 (IPS) — Nigeria is mourning, along with the rest of the world, after the downing of Ethiopian Airlines Flight, which claimed all of the 157 lives onboard. The fatalities included ...
Read More »Multi-Award-Winning Novelist, Andrea Levy: Her Important Body Of Work Set Out What It Is To Be Black And British
By Sarah Lawson Welsh Guest Writer Prize-winning British novelist Andrea Levy, who died on February 14, will be remembered affectionately for raising awareness of black British writing and the closely intertwined histories of Britain and the Caribbean more than any ...
Read More »The Why, What And Where Of The World’s Black Leopards
By Sam Williams Guest Writer A black leopard was recently spotted in Kenya’s Laikipia area by San Diego Zoo scientist, Nicholas Pilfold. Sam Williams, a conservation ecologist focused on African carnivores, asked Nicholas about the elusive cats. Question: ...
Read More »Could Sex Robots Cause Intimacy Between Humans To Become Obsolete?
By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Could sex, as we know it, soon become out of place and obsolete? With the passage of time, a growing number of people will find sex and partnership entirely from either artificial agents or in ...
Read More »Breaking Up The Old Boys Club In Sports By Elevating Women Coaches
By Jenessa Banwell Guest Writer The federal government has a goal of achieving gender equity across all levels of sport by 2035. Minister of Sport Kirsty Duncan announced the development of a Working Group on Gender Equity in ...
Read More »Young People Drowning In A Rising Tide Of Perfectionism
By Simon Sherry and Martin M. Smith Contributing Writers We recently conducted one of the largest-ever studies on perfectionism. We learned that perfectionism has increased substantially over the past 25 years and that it affects men and women equally. We also ...
Read More »Trinidad Named Among Five Caribbean Countries On European Union’s New Blacklist Of Non-Cooperative Tax Jurisdictions
BRUSSELS, Belgian March 12, 2019 (CMC) – The European Union, today, named five Caribbean countries on a new list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, which it said had been based on an “an intense process of analysis and dialogue steered by ...
Read More »What Is Intersectionality? All Of Who I Am
By Roberta K. Timothy Contributing Writer “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ― Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider) Last year at the Golden Globes, many Hollywood actors got on stage in ...
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