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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...
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...
Dennis Minott and Denise Forrest | Call for climate-responsive curriculum
The Gleaner
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July 20, 2025
In the face of intensifying climate threats, volatile energy markets, rising inequality, and the brutal legacy of unsustainable development, it is no longer acceptable for Caribbean business schools to persist with curricula largely disconnected...
Caribbean Delegation Pushes Slavery Reparations In Europe
Our News Bahamas
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July 11, 2025
UNITED KINGDOM – Caribbean activists and researchers are calling two days of meetings in Europe a major step forward in the fight for slavery reparations. Delegates from Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, Suriname, and other CARICOM nations held high-level...
Berbice to get 2 feed plants, high-performance facility as Pres. Ali outlines major transformations to come
I News Guyana
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July 21, 2025
In his bid for a second term in office, President Dr Irfaan Ali today promised to deliver a host of initiatives that will see a massive economic transformation of Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) over the next five years He was at the time...
CRFM appoints two Caribbean leads for regional fisheries sustainability program
Dominica News Online
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July 9, 2025
(L-r) Sherrón Barker, Daintyann Barrett-Smith,The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) is actively progressing with the execution of the STAR-Fish Project, a venture funded by Canada aimed at fostering sustainable technologies to enhance...
Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life
Mongabay
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July 4, 2025
As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures. Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can destabilize marine ecosystems by...
Sanjaya Baru Interview | 'I don't see Indians coming back saying we want to build a new India now'
The New Indian Express
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A record 23000 millionaires left India in the past one decade. That's roughly over 2000 a year. This is over and above the millions of students and professionals migrating overseas every year. But despite the rise in the drain of knowledge and now...
Mapped: Average Penis Length by Country
Visual Capitalist
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July 19, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Mapped: Average Penis Length by Country This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts...
IInstitute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean installs new President
Searchlight
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July 18, 2025
PRESIDENTS OF THE professional accounting bodies in the Caribbean. INSET: SIXTO COY, ICAC President 2025-2027 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean (ICAC), said it successfully concluded the 42nd Annual Caribbean Conference, at...
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UG’s Architecture Dept wins again at competition in French Guiana
Stabroek News
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July 6, 2025
French Ambassador to Guyana and Suriname Nicholas de Lacoste (third, right) poses with from left: students Kiana Persaud, Aditya Mohanall, and Denish Ramnarin; Head of UG’s Architecture Department Dr Anna Perreira and lecturer Kurt Gonsalves The...
UG’s Architecture Department cops first place at Fifth Int’l Lekol Architectural Competition in French Guiana
Guyana Chronicle
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July 4, 2025
– ‘win signals the expertise the department possesses and the calibre of students in the programme’, dep’t head says THE University of Guyana’s Architecture Department in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET) has once again copped the...
UG’s Architecture Dept. cops 1st place at int’l competition
I News Guyana
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July 3, 2025
The University of Guyana’s Architecture Department in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET) has once again copped the first prize at the 5th International Lekol Architectural Competition held in French Guiana from June 24 to 27, 2025....
Keller Williams Expands to Singapore
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 16, 2025-- Keller Williams Realty, LLC (KW), the world's largest real estate franchise by agent count, is expanding across Asia. As momentum continues, KW has awarded a new master franchise in Singapore. As of...
Caribbean voices put slavery reparations on the agenda in Europe
Loop News
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A number of activists and researchers in the reparations movement from across the Caribbean region have hailed two successful days of constructive engagements with EU and UK political representatives on the issue of slavery reparations. In a...
Caribbean reparations proponents in UK talks
The Royal Gazette
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July 4, 2025
Created: Jul 04, 2025 01:53 PM The delegation to the European Parliament included Professor Jean Marie Théodat, left, Denis O’Brien, Don Marshall, Fiona Compton, Uriel Sabajo, Dr Michael Banner, Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles and members of the...
Brazil’s Congress Sets the Stage for Major Oil Talks in Untapped Equatorial Waters
The Rio Times
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July 16, 2025
Brazil’s Congress has just approved a plan to jumpstart public debates on oil exploration in the country’s Equatorial Margin, a region stretching more than 2,000 kilometers along the north coast. Backed by lawmakers and local industries, this move...