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Silver and blue economies gaining ground in coloured economy

Silver and blue economies gaining ground in coloured economy

The silver economy, which centers on the needs and contributions of older citizens, is becoming increasingly relevant as Jamaica’s population ages. By 2025, data from the Ministry of Health and Wellness suggest that approximately 17 per cent of...

U.S. Plans to Drop Millions of Flies from the Sky to Prevent Spread of Flesh-Eating 'Man-Eater' Maggots

U.S. Plans to Drop Millions of Flies from the Sky to Prevent Spread of Flesh-Eating 'Man-Eater' Maggots

NEED TO KNOW The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots, which threaten livestock, wildlife, and humans, with projected losses topping $100 billion A $29.5 million multi-agency plan includes...

United as one: Fans of Mexico’s national soccer team take over State Farm Stadium

United as one: Fans of Mexico’s national soccer team take over State Farm Stadium

Team Mexico fans cheer at the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal match between Mexico and Saudi Arabia at State Farm Stadium Saturday in Glendale. (Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images) GLENDALE – Fans filled the red seats of State Farm Stadium full...

Why US plans to drop millions of flies from planes

Why US plans to drop millions of flies from planes

It may sound bizarre, even like a horror movie — but US officials are preparing to fight a flesh-eating pest by releasing hundreds of millions of sterilised flies from aircraft. The target? The New World screwworm, a parasitic larva that has been...

Customs seizes 150kg of cocaine bricks in Tauranga

Customs seizes 150kg of cocaine bricks in Tauranga

Cocaine worth an estimated $58.2 million has been found at the Port of Tauranga in a shipping container from Jamaica. Customs officers based at the port seized an estimated 150kg of the Class A drug from a container destined for New Zealand. The...

Lee Ramon Wilson

Lee Ramon Wilson

Lee Ramon Wilson, 92, of Columbia, died on Saturday, June 28, 2025. Born on March 22, 1933, in Rutland, Vermont, he was the son of the late Earl “Roxie” D. Wilson and Marie Snyder Wilson. Lee is survived by his wife of nearly 38 years, Suzette...

Trump tax bill sends new icebreaker fleet into…

Trump tax bill sends new icebreaker fleet into…

Climate change is opening up a new front in the ongoing cold war between the United States and China, and President Donald Trump is gearing up with new icebreakers to help patrol the Northwest Passage connecting Alaska to Greenland. Contained in...

SCAD Takes Cannes: IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking

SCAD Takes Cannes: IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking

The Savannah College of Art and Design is the university launchpad for a career in film and television. The opportunities for actual professional experience SCAD offers are second to none. From film sets to casting offices to production and...

US to drop millions of flies over Texas to kill ‘man-eater’ maggots

US to drop millions of flies over Texas to kill ‘man-eater’ maggots

(NewsNation) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. It’s part of the government’s plans for protecting the U.S. from the so-called...

‘Grateful’: Natalie Milian Orbis stacks $301K to defend her Miami-Dade Commission seat

‘Grateful’: Natalie Milian Orbis stacks $301K to defend her Miami-Dade Commission seat

She’s unopposed so far, but Natalie Milian Orbis is wasting no time building up a war chest to defend her District 6 seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission. In her first campaign finance filings since she was appointed to the panel, Milian Orbis...

Recycling Public Service Announcement by Cloe Thompson

Recycling Public Service Announcement by Cloe Thompson

In my teenage years, as the high school president of the Ecology Club, sustainability has always been close to my heart. Over the years living in Canada, recycling evolved to be as quick and easy as putting out your trash for collection…except you...

World Cup Power Rankings: USMNT outside top 20

World Cup Power Rankings: USMNT outside top 20

With the Gold Cup done and dusted, the 2024-25 international cycle is done and dusted. A year from now we will be in the teeth of the 2026 World Cup knockout stages, so what better time to assess who figures to be in the mix in 365 days time? Ten...

Flesh-eating parasite closes US border as disease spreads across country

Flesh-eating parasite closes US border as disease spreads across country

The United States has once again shut its southern border to livestock imports, citing the northward spread of a flesh-eating parasite in Mexico, further than previously reported. Mexico's president expressed his criticism on Thursday, insinuating...

Frank B. Nelson

Frank B. Nelson

Family services will be held at a later date. Frank Boyce Nelson was born July 16, 1932, to Frank A. and Martha (Hinrichs) Nelson in Ringsted, Iowa. He spent his formative years there and graduated from Ringsted High School in 1950 where he...

USDA to resume livestock imports from Mexico after screwworm fears

USDA to resume livestock imports from Mexico after screwworm fears

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in May suspended the transport of live cattle and other livestock from Mexico to stop the spread of the New World screwworm. The agency plans a phased-in reopening starting Monday. File Photo by Juan Manuel...

US Reopens Mexico Cattle Import Sites After Screwworm Battle

US Reopens Mexico Cattle Import Sites After Screwworm Battle

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Monday a phased reopening of livestock import sites along the Mexican border, beginning July 7 with Douglas, Arizona. Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins said the decision follows weeks of...

Coffee with… Leagh Turner, CEO, Coupa

Coffee with… Leagh Turner, CEO, Coupa

“Talk to me about what’s going on out there—you’ve been to more trade shows than me…” says Leagh Turner, CEO of procurement giant Coupa. Bright, curious, and instantly engaging, it takes a good ten minutes before I get to ask her a single...

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study

As the demand for butterflies, spiders, ants and other terrestrial invertebrates grows worldwide, researchers in a recent study say better policy and regulation coverage can help ensure sustainability. The researchers reviewed existing scientific...

Ratiram in Rome; Tancoo travels to Spain

Ratiram in Rome; Tancoo travels to Spain

Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries Ravi Ratiram and Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo were both in Europe over the weekend; Ratiram for an event hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and Tancoo for...

La Gambie perd des millions à cause des flux financiers illicites – Dr Manneh

La Gambie perd des millions à cause des flux financiers illicites – Dr Manneh

Par: Nyima Sillah Ancien haut fonctionnaire chargé de l’intégration régionale à la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), Dr Lamin Manneh a déclaré que les flux financiers illicites (FFI) siphonnent des millions de la Gambie, compromettant ainsi...

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