JAMAICA | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Leads a Jamaican 100m Clean Sweep at the World Athletics Championships 2022 in a Time of 10.67 Seconds

JAMAICA | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Leads a Jamaican 100m Clean Sweep at the World Athletics Championships 2022 in a Time of 10.67 Seconds

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica wins the women’s 100m during the Wanda Diamond League 2022, Meeting de Paris (Athletics) on June 18, 2022 at Charlety stadium in Paris, France. (Shutterstock) By WiredJA News Team The Jamaican women have done it again, by producing yet another historic Track and Field clean sweep. This time in the final […]

Gang Violence in Port-au-Prince Threatens More Than a Million Food-Insecure Haitians

Gang Violence in Port-au-Prince Threatens More Than a Million Food-Insecure Haitians

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 11.01.2015: View of Port au Prince and the Jalousie, an extremely poor district of Pétionville suburb of Port-au-Prince. (Shutterstock) In addition to being hit hard by the global food and fuel crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in recent decades, Haitians have been subjected to devastating earthquakes, tropical storms, landslides and […]

Skittles Are Toxic, Federal Lawsuit Claims

Skittles Are Toxic, Federal Lawsuit Claims

By Jonathan Stempel, Insurance Journal Mars Inc. has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles candies are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ago to phase out. In a proposed class action filed on Thursday in the Oakland, California federal court, Jenile Thames […]

Is Monkeypox a Pandemic? An Epidemiologist Explains Why it Isn’t Likely to Become as Widespread as COVID-19, but is Worth Watching

Is Monkeypox a Pandemic? An Epidemiologist Explains Why it Isn’t Likely to Become as Widespread as COVID-19, but is Worth Watching

By Kathryn H. Jacobsen, The Conversation Monkeypox is the latest global public health threat to make headlines. Most people who contract the monkeypox virus experience flu-like symptoms and a blistery rash that lasts two to four weeks, but a small percentage of infected people develop sepsis or other severe and potentially fatal complications. It is […]

More Young Voters Could Come out to Vote in November, Sparked by Abortion and Other Hot Political Issues

More Young Voters Could Come out to Vote in November, Sparked by Abortion and Other Hot Political Issues

By Abby Kiesa, The Conversation The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has far-reaching personal and political implications and may help decide the midterm elections in November 2022. That influence extends to young people’s election participation. People ages 18 to 29 have historically been less likely to vote than older […]

DiNapoli: New Yorkers Struggling to Pay Utility Bills

Bankruptcy Attorney Brian Figeroux discusses options.

DiNapoli: New Yorkers Struggling to Pay Utility Bills

New York, NY – January 18, 2021: Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller speaks during Martin Luther King celebration at NAN headquarters. (Shutterstock) By Chris Tobias The devastating number of job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant increase in the number of residential customers owing money to their utility companies, with one […]

Barbados PM Concerned About Crime

Barbados PM Concerned About Crime

Barbados is facing a new difficult situation: Homicide rates are now higher than ever in 2019 and 2020. The question is, will it be able to curb the violence down or will it catch up with some of its Caribbean neighbors? According to an article last month by Chris Dalby, Insight Crime, the numbers can […]

BOSL Supports B.A.D.A.S.S Luncheon Featuring Wendy Fitzwilliam

BOSL Supports B.A.D.A.S.S Luncheon Featuring Wendy Fitzwilliam

Bank of Saint Lucia (BOSL) partnered with the organizers of Bonding and Developing a Support Sisterhood for a second time in hosting their signature “BADASS” event. The luncheon was held recently at Kelly’s Restaurant at Sandals Halcyon and offered professional women across the island a forum to network and learn from each other. Featured speaker […]

Employment-based Adjustment of Status Applicants: Do’s and Don’ts for Your Medicals to Enable More Efficient Processing

Employment-based Adjustment of Status Applicants: Do’s and Don’ts for Your Medicals to Enable More Efficient Processing

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plays a significant role in the processing of employment-based visas, and we want to ensure we use as many available visas as possible in fiscal year (FY) 2022, which ends on Sept. 30, 2022. We are still doing our part with the U.S. Department of State (DOS) in processing […]