St Vincent PM announces prisoners’ release, permanent jobs

October 28, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_3691" align="alignleft" width="300"] St Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph GonsalvesRead more: http://www.caribbean360.com/news/gonsalves-knows-date-for-st-vincent-and-the-grenadines-general-election#ixzz3Vy52Rnsd[/caption] KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says he will soon order the release of a number of young prisoners, and make permanent the appointment of 100...

Mosquito Army Released In Zika Fight

October 28, 2016 in Regional

Scientists are planning to release an army of millions of modified mosquitoes in areas of Brazil and Colombia. They say the unusual approach is an attempt to provide “revolutionary protection” against mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika and chikungunya. The mosquitoes are infected with a bug called...

Angry JC students urged to pray after schoolmate killed on bus

October 28, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14925" align="alignleft" width="300"] Nicholas Francis’ desk decorated with tributes from his classmates[/caption] ANGER and grief gripped Jamaica College in St Andrew yesterday as students grappled with the death of one of their schoolmates late Wednesday at the hands of a savage, knife-wielding robber. Fourteen-year-old Nicholas Francis,...

UWI Regional Task Force On Zika Tracks Rare Neurological Disorder

October 27, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14915" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thomas Langerak, PhD student at Erasmus Medical Centre, Holland, (second from right), demonstrates the use of the new Caribbean database for Guillain-Barré Syndrome to (L-R) Dr Azad Esack, Consultant, Neurologist, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Centre, Mount Hope (EWMSC); Dr Sherry Sandy,...

One dead, five injured in Haiti food fight

October 27, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14907" align="alignright" width="300"] Residents await their turn to obtain food and zinc sheets for roofing at a local distribution center in the city of Jeremie, southwestern Haiti, on October 22, 2016, in the aftermath of Hurrican Matthew[/caption] PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A young woman in...