By Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica Earlier this year, the pandemic swept across the country, killing 100,000 Americans by the spring, shuttering businesses and schools, and forcing people into their homes. It was a great time to be a debt collector. In August, Encore Capital, the largest debt buyer in the country, announced that […]
Photo Credit: Economist By Guyanese Online Artist Frank Bowling OBE RA has been conferred with the honour of Knight Bachelor in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty The Queen. The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. During his six-decades long career, Bowling’s […]
By Calvin G. Brown, WiredJA WASHINGTON, DC – October 8, 2020: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says given the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, under further strong deterioration of macro financial conditions, some Trinidad and Tobago banks could breach their minimum capital requirements in 2022. A report from the IMF following […]
By CARICOM CARIFESTA, the Region’s premiere cultural festival, which was scheduled to be held in Antigua and Barbuda in August next year, has been postponed to August 2022. The Hon. Daryll Matthew, Minister of Sports, Culture, National Festivals, and the Arts of Antigua and Barbuda, announced the decision on 8 October, at a virtual meeting […]
By NIA NIH It’s no secret that our immune system function declines as we age, which can make older adults more susceptible to a variety of viral and bacterial pathogens including COVID-19. But the role of sex in immune system aging is not well understood. An NIA-supported study took a closer look at how the […]
By Calvin G. Brown, WiredJA KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, October 8, 2020 – The people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will go to the polls on November 5 to elect a new government. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves who will be seeking his fifth consecutive term made the announcement during an online meeting of the […]
The California senator's poise and firmness made for a satisfying contrast to the vice president's smug condescension and interruptions — but an insect stole the show.
By Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter The first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election could’ve been a taste of normalcy — a now-exotic blandness in a brain-melting, sanity-bombarding year. After all, Mike Pence’s main political asset, other than the network of evangelicals that he helped usher into Trump’s base, is supposed to […]
The New England Journal of Medicine website page. Nejm.org logo on display screen, Illustrative Editorial. – Los Angeles, California, USA – 26 March 2020 (Shutterstock) By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) – In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for […]
US President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the East Room of the White House alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel. – Washington, DC – April 27, 2018 (Shutterstock) New York, NY—On Wednesday afternoon, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s appeal for a stay on Judge Koh’s order that […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Intimate partner violence is especially horrible for immigrants who depend on their spouses for immigration benefits. We call it Green Card Slavery. Thanks to VAWA (the Violence Against Women’s Act) which is gender neutral and was sponsored by then Senator Joe Biden, there is hope through the Spousal Abuse […]