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Americans are obsessed with knowing more about their family tree
AS
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July 25, 2025
If, like me, you’ve been tempted to spit in a tube and send it to a DNA lab, you’re not alone. Americans have always cared a lot about where they came from. The current boom in genealogy – from Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s hit show Finding Your Roots...
High-Level Political Forum Concludes With Call For Accelerated Action On Sustainable Development
Scoop
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Ministerial Declaration reaffirms commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals The 2025 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) concluded this week with Member States calling for urgent, coordinated action to accelerate...
TIC previews AI export, shipping solutions
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The evolution of artificial intelligence and its use in the local market was brought into focus for the export and shipping sectors at last week’s Trade and Investment Convention. WizdomCRM’s country manager Charielle...
PAHO Director and CARICOM Secretary...
SKNVibes
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Georgetown, Guyana, 22 July 2025 (PAHO) – The Joint Subregional Cooperation Strategy that will provide a coordinated framework for technical cooperation to address common public health challenges in the Caribbean was signed today by the Director...
St. Kitts and Nevis, CARICOM Calls for Accelerated Sustainable Development and Global Support at UN High-Level Political Forum
Win Media SKN
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July 23, 2025
by Kevon Browne St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN) — The Hon. Dr Joyelle Clarke, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Climate Action and Constituency Empowerment for St. Kitts and Nevis, represented her country and the Caribbean Community...
An uprooted people, a legacy of conservation
Conservation International
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July 22, 2025
Their forebears were strangers in a strange land. Yet over hundreds of years, in the shadows of their ancestors, they migrated and mixed into societies across South America, quietly reshaping the natural landscape. They are the descendants of...
Qantas data breach exposes the weakness of offshoring as class action mooted
Crikey
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July 22, 2025
The recent Qantas data breach that exposed the details of 5.7 million customers occurred at an outsourced call centre in Manila run by listed US company Concentrix. The data was exfiltrated through Qantas’ customer relationship management (CRM)...
Study links Afro-descendant communities to less deforestation, more biodiversity
Mongabay
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July 22, 2025
A new study finds that Afro-descendant communities in four Amazonian countries are linked to lands with high biodiversity and 29-55% less deforestation compared with protected and unprotected areas. More than 130 million people in Latin America...
Nickel boom on an Indonesian island brings toxic seas, lost incomes, report says
Mongabay
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July 23, 2025
Nickel mining on Indonesia’s Kabaena Island has polluted the sea, degraded forests and disrupted the lives of Indigenous Bajau fishers and farmers, who have reported severe drops in income, fish catches and seaweed quality. The mining has harmed...
Residents of tiny nation devastated as homeland vanishes before their eyes: 'Every day I see a piece of my land disappear'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 15, 2025
It's a global red flag. by Nicole WesthoffJuly 15, 2025 Residents of South America's smallest country face a decline in land area as the sea laps at its doorstep — and it's not relenting. What's happening? Suriname, a developing country with just...
Reconnecting Roots: University of Hyderabad Part of Rs 1.20 Crore ICSSR Project on ‘Girmitiya Legacy’
Telengana Today
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July 16, 2025
Prof Gajendra Pathak from the University of Hyderabad is part of a team awarded Rs 1.2 crore by ICSSR to study the cultural history of Indian labour migration under British rule, focusing on the girmitiya diaspora and their forgotten stories...
Jamaica joins Afreximbank
Trinidad Express
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JAMAICA has officially acceded to the Establishment Agreement of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), becoming the 13th Caribbean Community (Caricom) Member State of the African Multilateral Financial Institution. The historic signing took...
PAHO Director and CARICOM Secretary-General sign 2025-2029 Joint Subregional cooperation strategy to advance health and equity in the Caribbean
Pan American Health Organization
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July 22, 2025
Georgetown, Guyana, 22 July 2025 (PAHO) – The Joint Subregional Cooperation Strategy that will provide a coordinated framework for technical cooperation to address common public health challenges in the Caribbean was signed today by the Director...
PAHO Director and CARICOM Secretary-General sign 2025-2029 Subregional cooperation strategy to advance health and equity in the Caribbean
Pan American Health Organization
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July 22, 2025
Georgetown, Guyana, 22 July 2025 (PAHO) – The Subregional Strategy that will provide a coordinated framework for technical cooperation to address common public health challenges in the Caribbean was signed today by the Director of the Pan American...
Molecular Assessment of Traditional Mongolian Medicine Tongola-5 in Lactulose Induced Diarrhea: An in vivo Study
Dove Medical Press
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July 18, 2025
Introduction Chronic diarrhea is a prevalent gastrointestinal disorder that affects approximately 17% of the global population.1,2 With evolving lifestyles and dietary patterns, the incidence of diarrhea-related diseases has been increasing,...
Central Bank Governor calls for shift from recovery to resilience
Barbados Today
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July 22, 2025
28 Central Bank Governor Dr Kevin Greenidge says the Caribbean must move beyond post-COVID recovery and focus squarely on building resilience amid new economic and environmental threats. Speaking at the opening of the bank’s 45th Annual Review...
Payment Automation Hacks: Best Practices to Streamline & Scale Your AP Processes
CFO Dive
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Unified Policy Needed to Boost ‘Medical Tourism’ in India
Travel Daily Media
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July 22, 2025
Experts from the medical industry urged for a single-window platform to promote medical tourism in India. According to Dr. Sunil Khetarpal, Director of the Association of Healthcare Providers (India), "A unified national policy is essential to...
Organized crime and security in Latin America
Geopolitical Intelligence Services
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July 22, 2025
Transnational crime in Latin America is growing across the region, posing a challenge to democracies. Jan. 13, 2024: The Colombian national army has increased security at the Rumichaca Bridge on the border with Ecuador, due to the latter’s...
Ranked: The 50 Most Food Self-Sufficient Countries in the World
Visual Capitalist
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July 21, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: 50 Countries That Can Feed Themselves This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven...