Imagine going to your favourite lunch spot to have some good ‘ole bajan rice & stew with finger licking baked chicken or just to grab a quick bite to quell the hungry pangs until you get home to eat.
Imagine between now and the next couple of hours you start to experience stomach cramps, diarrhoea and [...]
On Thursday 29th 2007 Barbados experience a 5.0 earthquake that was felt as far as Peurto Rico in the North to Venezuela in the South. For some it was a frightening experience. A wake up call. One house in St.George was extensively damage at the base. For days Barbadians traded stories on What, Where, When, Why and How. Experts and ordinary [...]
Heavy rain and wrecked roads hampered efforts to reach areas hardest-hit by China’s worst earthquake in three decades today, as the death toll rose to nearly 10,000.
State media reports indicated that the number of dead was likely to soar, with Xinhua news agency saying 10,000 people remained buried in the Mianzhu area of Sichuan province [...]
The response to this natural disaster was a welcome change compared to the slowness of the Myanmar [Burma] government in responding to the aftermath of the destruction caused by the cyclone in their country. According to Christian Broadcasting Network
India’s meteorological department said Wednesday [7th May] that it had warned Myanmar of the storm two days [...]
Less than three months before the Chinese capital is expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics in August, China has been hit with a massive earthquake with injuries and deaths including children, workers and possible hospital patients and staff. Rain was also predicted for the disaster area.
More than [...]
This article is sure going to raise a few eyebrows in the international community. Every since the surging global food crisis with millions around the world starving, the UN has been appealing to donors to contribute to its needy fund to feed the poor [who have been hit the hardest], one would have gotten the [...]
No sooner had the ink dry on the previous post where pointed questions where asked about our security of rice here on this island than when I was inform that today’s Sunday Sun have reported that some supermarkets have started to limit the amount of rice customers could purchase. Well it was bound to happen sooner [...]
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dreams I saw [seven heads] of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. after them, seven others sprouted - withered and thin and sorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the [seven] good heads……….”. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,”God has revealed [...]
Mayor Major Thomas Masters [Riviera Beach, Palm Beach County] returned from Haiti late Tuesday, armed with a challenge: Collect enough flour, rice and cooking oil to return to the impoverished country in 30 days.
Masters along with two local Haitian ministers were among a 20-person delegation, headed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, that spent three days in [...]
Family Watch Dog is a free service run by volunteers to assist persons in locating registered sex offenders in their neighbourhoods.
So I decided to put in a search for the Brooklyn New York area, since I have relatives out there and out pops a zillion- looking little squares in front of me. Click on [...]
Just when you though you have hear it all, then along comes something that just rocks your world and leaves you in a state of total disbelief. This is a classic example of the medical profession gone totally haywire. I wanted to comment more on this story but I hurting after reading the article.
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The same environmentalists that jumped on the biofuel bandwagon [because of it environmentally cleanliness to reduce carbon emissions as oppose to oil/gas which increases carbon emissions in the atmosphere], thereby reducing the land available for crop production to feed the world’s 6 billion plus people on planet Earth are utterly horrified that Europe [...]
Sometimes a close encounter can be hazardous to your health and life as well.
A brief look at how the global food crisis is affecting our Caricom neighbours as they too try to grapple with the rising food costs in their countries.
Haiti
Haiti which has felt the greatest impact out of the Caribbean nations have at least 5 people dead and 40 wounded this week since mass demonstrations began [...]
In what was billed as a press conference turned out nothing more than ” a conversation with the Prime Minister” [as Mr Cox candidly puts it] with 3 journalists quizzing Prime Minister David Thompson on the vexing issue of rising food prices, DLP manifesto promises amongst other things in a 90min CBC broadcast.
David Ellis [...]
