Daily Archives: 05/25/2022

BARBADOS: Time: Barbados PM among the 100 most influential people of 2022

05/25/2022 – 1:45 am

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has made the Time 100 list of the most influential people.

By May 23, 2022

Mottley has spent the past few years since becoming the first female Prime Minister of Barbados lobbying for better trade and financial relationships and conditions for Barbados, the Caribbean and small island developing states.            Continue reading →

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HEALTH: Tech neck: what are smartphones doing to our bodies? –THE GUARDIAN

05/25/2022 – 1:20 am

Bending your head to use a phone stresses the spine, say chiropractors – and that’s not the only way the devices are injuring and changing us

One black woman suffering having poor posture using mobile phonePosed by model Portrait of black woman feeling neck pain using cellphone

Age: Two years old.

Appearance: The next stage of human evolution.

This sounds exciting! Are we all going to be cyborgs soon? Not exactly.            Continue reading →

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GUYANA: The 2022 Floods: Lethem; other Rupununi areas severely flooded

05/25/2022 – 1:00 am

Posted by: Denis Chabrol in News Monday, 23 May 2022, DEMERARA WAVES

EDITOR’s NOTE: The 2022 rainy season has now begun.  It usually starts in the interior regions and then moves towards the coastlands as the main rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Region 5 has already been affected and in the following weeks other coastal regions will feel the effects of the increased rainfall.
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Flood waters from steadily rising rivers in neighbouring Brazil on Monday forced more than 50 persons in Lethem, the capital of  Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo), to evacuate their homes and seek refuge in now filled-to-capacity government shelters, a regional spokeswoman said.          Continue reading →
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