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Video: Zika Virus: What you need to know
Zika Virus: Our Dystopian Climate Future
I’ve spent much of my life chronicling the ongoing tragedies stemming from global warming: the floods and droughts and storms, the failed harvests and forced migrations. But no single item on the list seems any more horrible than the emerging news from South America about the newly prominent Zika disease.
~ Bill McKibben, “The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future,” The Guardian, January 25, 2016
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Guyana – Capitol TV News Videos – 26 January 2016
| Carvill Duncan in Court over increase
Posted: 26 Jan 2016 03:09 PM PST |
| Groups put up their lists for Local Government elections
Posted: 26 Jan 2016 03:08 PM PST |
| East Coast groups in the elections fray
Posted: 26 Jan 2016 03:07 PM PST |
| Standoff over teacher promotion
Posted: 26 Jan 2016 03:06 PM PST |
| City workers feeling the squeeze from late salaries this month
Posted: 26 Jan 2016 03:05 PM PST |
| Another mother says her son is innocent of murder allegations
Posted: 26 Jan 2016 03:04 PM PST |
| Sports
Posted: 26 Jan 2016 03:00 PM PST |
A Guyanese Christmas
By Cheryl Springer – On December 11, 2015 – Stabroek News – Lifestyle
Black cake at Christmas
Every year, hundreds of Guyanese living in the Diaspora begin packing barrels and boxes to post ‘home’, some as early as June/July. In many cases it’s because they’re spending Christmas in Guyana and want to share more than they can carry in the token one or two suitcases they’re allowed on most flights.
But every year, hundreds more can only reminisce on the Guyanese Christmases of their childhoods or recent pasts. Four Guyanese living in Bristol, United Kingdom; Houston, Texas and Kentucky in the US and Tortola, BVI tell Lifestyle what they miss about Christmas ‘back home’. A recurring theme is ‘I’ve been away too long.’ Perhaps this reliving of the memories will turn their feet toward these shores. Continue reading
Guyana Government News Brief – January 26, 2016
The last Defender: Is Land Rover’s off-road heyday over? – BBC News
The last Defender: Is Land Rover’s off-road heyday over?
The last of Jaguar Land Rover’s classic Defenders will roll off the production line this week, ending 68 years of production – does this mean the carmaker’s best off-road days are behind it?
Picture a Land Rover and you might imagine a box-shaped green vehicle etching desert sand or surging through floodwater. Continue reading →
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