Caribbean Life News Update – 8 April 2017
Guyana Travel Tax billed into ticket
BY TANGERINE CLARKE | GUYANA
During a departure procedure on April 2, 2017, at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana, a ticket agent told this reporter, that a departure tax is no longer payable at check-in, he said the fee is now billed into the airline ticket at time of purchase.
Silicon Valley seeks Caribbean entrepreneurs and creators
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON | HAITI
The technology capital of the country is looking for Caribbean creatives to be a part of their initiative to improve the environment and the lives of people living in the region. Singularity University, a global educational technology organization based in California, is asking Caribbean entrepreneurs and innovators to present a startup idea that will change the livelihood and scope of climate in the Caribbean.
Clarke: Oppose Trump’s immigration policies
BY NELSON A. KING | BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has called on the Caribbean community in the United States to strongly oppose the Donald Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Clarke: Oppose Trump’s immigration policies
BY NELSON A. KING | BROOKLY
Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has called on the Caribbean community in the United States to strongly oppose the Donald Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Catastrophic antibiotic threat from food
BY JOMO KWA E SUNDARAM AND TAN ZHAI GEN | FOOD
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is a former economics professor who served as a senior UN official during 2005-2015. Tan Zhai Gen is an University of Oxford biochemistry graduate currently involved in research. Both are Malaysians.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 4, 2017 (IPS) – The greatly excessive use of antibiotics in food production in recent decades has made many bacteria more resistant to antibiotics.
Darren Sammy eager to play
BY AZAD ALI | SPORTS
Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy is eager to play for the regional tram in the upcoming Limited Overs (50) against Pakistan in the Caribbean.
Brooklyn Transition Lions Club hosts Centennial Luncheon
BY NELSON A. KING | BROOKLYN
Several Brooklyn Lions clubs two Saturdays ago showed their continued support to the Brooklyn Transition Lions Clubs as the group hosted its Centennial Luncheon.
Climate Change solutions can’t wait for U.S. leadership
BY DESMOND BROWN | ENVIRONMENT
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 4, 2017 (IPS) – From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources like Guyana, climate change poses one of the biggest challenges for the countries of the Caribbean.
Prodigal daughter tries to reconcile with estranged dad
BY KAM WILLIAMS | MOVIES
It’s not very clear whether Harry Catto’s (Joe Blakemore) death was a murder or a suicide. One thing’s for certain, though. It wasn’t merely a mishap, because nobody accidentally sticks a gun in his own mouth and pulls the trigger. The cops suspect that he killed himself, but his father (David Troughton) is too much in shock to press them to launch a full investigation.
