Scientists are planning to release an army of millions of modified mosquitoes in areas of Brazil and Colombia. They say the unusual approach is an attempt to provide “revolutionary protection” against mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika and chikungunya. The mosquitoes are infected with a bug called...
[caption id="attachment_14925" align="alignleft" width="300"] Nicholas Francis’ desk decorated with tributes from his classmates[/caption] ANGER and grief gripped Jamaica College in St Andrew yesterday as students grappled with the death of one of their schoolmates late Wednesday at the hands of a savage, knife-wielding robber. Fourteen-year-old Nicholas Francis,...
[caption id="attachment_14915" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thomas Langerak, PhD student at Erasmus Medical Centre, Holland, (second from right), demonstrates the use of the new Caribbean database for Guillain-Barré Syndrome to (L-R) Dr Azad Esack, Consultant, Neurologist, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Centre, Mount Hope (EWMSC); Dr Sherry Sandy,...
[caption id="attachment_14907" align="alignright" width="300"] Residents await their turn to obtain food and zinc sheets for roofing at a local distribution center in the city of Jeremie, southwestern Haiti, on October 22, 2016, in the aftermath of Hurrican Matthew[/caption] PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A young woman in...
[caption id="attachment_14896" align="alignright" width="300"] Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine[/caption] GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Wednesday October 26, 2016 – Guyana’s top cop doesn’t believe that bail should be granted to re-offenders or anyone who is charged with a gun crime. Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine is therefore calling...