November 2018 Blog Posts (122)

A restaurant in eastern China is serving food with a difference as they are using robots as waiters.

Chinese restaurants started to replace their workers with robots as early as 2006. Though some have proven pretty incompetent, they're still cheaper than human wait staff — the approximate $1,200 up-front cost per robot is just a couple months' salary for an average server in China (though robot…

The officer, along with the West Virginia ACLU, filed a federal lawsuit against the department and it was settled in February for $175,000.

Throughout history, and especially in the last 25 years, there have been multitudes of instances of police officers and average citizens shooting and killing Black people, often unarmed, at the drop of a hat.

In many cases, those shooters often…

“I won’t stand by as schools like Book's Christian Academy financially benefit from Black student enrollment while showing a disdain for Black students who bring their whole selves to class,” Clinton Stanley said.

A fundamentalist Christian school in Florida banned a 6-year-old because of his deadlocks and now that school is facing a lawsuit.

C.J.…

• Chris Watts can be seen loading up his truck and driving off on the morning of August 13 after killing his family…

• Nearly half of all pregnancies in the US are unintentional or wanted 
• There are myriad forms of birth control for women, but only two for men 
• Condoms often fail and sterilization surgeries may be permanent…

MANUEL TRUJILLO, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS PLATFORM, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, BELIZE, HOLDS UP A COCONUT SEEDLING AT CENTRAL FARM, BELIZE. (PHOTO CREDIT: CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE)

Coconuts are a long-time staple of Caribbean cuisine, and practically an emblem of the region’s climate and culture. But a new international initiative is shifting coconut’s image to an icon…

The government of Antigua and Barbuda appears to be in a fighting mood over plans by Scotiabank to sell off its operations in the twin-island nation, while Guyana has also expressed concern that the sale will create issues for the banking sector in that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.

Scotiabank announced on Monday that it is shutting shop in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada,…

• Samir Ahmed, 24, an Ethiopian immigrant was arrested on November 17 
• He had earlier helped a man from his neighborhood return to his house 
• Police arriving to reports of an intoxicated man suspected Ahmed of being…

• Reese Bowman was killed by Leah Walden, 24, at the Rocket Tiers center in Baltimore last May
• Walden suffocated Bowman with a blanket in the horrifying incident
• She pleaded guilty to the murder on Tuesday and was sentenced to 70…

Beenie Man daughter Desha Ravers and Ding Dong got into a massive brawl at Uptown Mondays recently.

UWI to benefit from over US $250 million in support as part of reparations for slavery

UWI VICE CHANCELLOR SIR HILARY BECKLES

Not so fast, says the University of the West Indies (UWI), there’s no agreement yet on the payment of £200 million (US$256 million) in reparations from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Glas­gow.

UWI Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles sought to make that…

Protests in Haiti continue their deadly toll even as embattled Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Henry Ceant tries to restore calm after more than a week of unrest.

In a speech posted on Facebook on Saturday, Ceant announced that from today, Monday, a public works programme to clean canals, build roads and pick up trash would begin in a bid to provide quick access to jobs for the poor in the capital of…

It was the most wonderful time of the year for quite a few people who used an ATM on Sunday night that accidentally made it rain on recipients when it dispensed $100 bills.

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• Youtuber Chris Gursky was on holiday in Switzerland when he tried hang gliding
• Seconds after take off the Youtuber realised he wasn't attached to craft
• Pilot steered the glider with one hand and tried to bring it safely…

• Acute flaccid myelitis causes flu-like symptoms and can lead to lifelong paralysis
• Experts are not certain what causes the disease and don't know how to treat it
• There have been more than three-and-a-half times as many cases as last…