WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A dirty-looking, commercially worthless brown diamond found in Brazil is yielding priceless information about the composition of a layer deep inside our planet.
The diamond contained a mineral called ringwoodite that entrapped a significant amount of water, an international team of scientists reported this week.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state prosecutor said yesterday the death toll from a month of violent protests had risen to 28, after the nation’s top court ordered opposition mayors to dismantle barricades set up by street protesters.
State prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz, speaking on the sidelines of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, also said 1,293 detainees had been released and 104 remained in custody accused of serious crimes during the anti-government demonstrations.
(Trinidad Express) In an effort to reduce Trinidad’s carbon footprints, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Ramona Ramdial said, Trinidad and Tobago will have a state-of-the art recycling plant very soon.
“The recycling plant would cost around $400mTT,” Ramdial said.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - Hemispheric and regional reactions to the situation in Venezuela have taken an intriguing turn.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - As of yesterday, six days after being declared missing, there had been no word on the whereabouts of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - THE African-descended population in the Caribbean has the highest incidence in the world of chronic diseases, in the forms of hypertension and type two diabetes. This pandemic is the direct result of the nutritional experience, physical and emotional brutality and overall stress profile associated with slavery, genocide and apartheid.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Victims of crimes against humanity and their descendants have a legal right to call for reparatory justice. As such, the CARICOM Reparatory Justice Committee has come up with a ten-point plan of action, which outlines the path to reconciliation and justice for such persons.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - Data from the National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation (Namdevco) indicates an increase in the availability of selected agricultural commodities at the Norris Deonarine Northern Wholesale Market (NDNWM) for the period July to December 2013, the Central Bank of T&T said in its latest Economic Bulletin. Among the major locally produced food crops, larger quantities of sweet potato, cassava, cabbage and sweet pepper were available for sale, when compared with the same period a year earlier.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian -The United States wants countries including T&T to remove its subsidies on petroleum products, according to a high-ranking US State official. In what is called a background briefing at the US State Department here in Washington DC, the high-ranking official, who the media are not allowed to name, said it was US government policy that it remove subsidies from petroleum products and would like to see other countries follow.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Express -The statement issued by The University of the West Indies (UWI) in defence of the doctor and consultant was confusing, says chairman of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) Dr Shehenaz Mohammed.
“I’m surprised that they can draw a conclusion without any discussions with us and I’m even more surprised that anyone can draw conclusions without any facts when we ourselves have to appoint an expert panel in order to reach a conclusion,” said Mohammed.