Caribbean Fever's Blog – January 2017 Archive (119)

The battle lines are drawn in Bermuda as a gay couple mounts a fight in the law courts to tie the knot in the British Overseas Territory.

Bermudian Winston Godwin and Canadian Greg De Roche insist they have a right to happiness and the island’s legal system must rethink its treatment of same-sex couples.

Godwin and DeRoche are pressing the Supreme Court to order the…

President Trump Accuses Former President Barack Obama Of Wiretapping Him During Election (Video)

• Trump has accused Obama of wire tapping his phones at Trump Tower on Twitter
• The president tweeted that Obama had been spying on him in October  
• He claims the phones in Trump Tower were 'tapped' before his election victory 
• But Obama's spokesman,…

ImeIme Umana is the first black woman to be elected as president of the Harvard Law Review.

Umana graduated from Harvard College in 2014 and, according to her LinkedIn profile, hopes to graduate with her law degree in 2018. Her undergraduate studies were focused on government and African-American studies, and she worked as a criminal law investigative intern for the public defender’s office in Washington, D.C.…

A would-be killer nonchalantly walked down the aisle behind the bride and groom at a Brazilian wedding before pulling a gun from his waistband and firing shots.

Umberto Ferreira dos Santos, known by his nickname Betinho, opened fire at guests at the ceremony inside a church in Limoeiro de Anadia.

He was plotting to take out a father and son, who were due to serve as witnesses at the wedding, in a revenge attack over the death of his own boy, it was claimed.…

DR. WINSTON DAVIDSON IS PREPARING TO ROLL OUT THE APP. (PHOTO CREDIT: JAMAICA OBSERVER)

Respected Jamaican doctor and wellness practitioner Dr. Winston Davidson is gearing up to roll out a new app that will allow people who need urgent medical care to access their doctors around the clock, anywhere in the world.

Doctor On Call is being rolled out in the island’s…

Azealia Banks comes for Teyana Taylor and Teyana claps back

SEVERAL DIFFERENT STRAINS OF BIRD FLU HAVE BEEN SPREADING ACROSS EUROPE AND ASIA SINCE LATE LAST YEAR.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is on high alert and has called on all countries to closely monitor outbreaks of deadly avian flu in birds and to promptly report any human cases that could signal the start of a pandemic.

Several different strains of bird flu have been spreading across Europe and…

• Catherine Howarth is of Nigerian heritage, while her husband Richard is white
• She first had a white son with blue eyes, now has a white, blue-eyed baby girl
• The odds of a black woman having two white children is 'millions-to-one'
• She said: 'I get tired of being stopped in street by people asking if I'm the nanny' 
• Doctors say…

Two New Hampshire Burger King employees were caught selling weed to customers who requested their fries to be “extra crispy.”

Garrett “Nasty Boy” Norris, 20, and Meagan Dearborn, 19, were allegedly selling weed to customers who made that particular order, and their scheme was discovered by an undercover police officer. According to Seacoast Online, the two operated by handing the weed through the drive-thru…

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(Reuters) President Donald Trump's sweeping ban on people seeking refuge in the United States and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries caused confusion and panic among travelers on…

Sex crimes against children are on the rise in Trinidad and Tobago and, according to police, the majority are occurring within families.

Even more alarming is that the majority of cases remain unresolved, the Child Protection Unit (CPU) of the…

THE NEW TECHNIQUE COULD NEVERTHELESS REDUCE THE NEED FOR MAN-MADE FILLINGS, WHICH ARE PRONE TO INFECTION AND OFTEN NEED REPLACING OVER TIME.

A new discovery out of England comes as a big relief to those of us who hate injections and the high whine of a drill in our mouths as dentists prepare damaged teeth for fillings.

Research published in the journal Scientific Reports indicates that fillings could…

Sitches has run into some legal trouble in Miami.

TMZ reports the 21-year old rapper, born Phillip Nickolas Katsabanis, was arrested Wednesday night, January 25, after cops discovered a gun and marijuana in his Porsche.…

She was taken into care after suffering sexual abuse from a different man (Picture: Getty)

A child contracted gonorrhea and chlamydia at age seven or eight after she was abused by her foster father.

He ‘breached the trust placed in him by sexually abusing her’, social services said in a serious case review.

The girl,…

{NEW PICS) Did Popcaan Steal Machel Montano’s Girlfriend? 

Popcaan might be off the market after secretly getting married to his Trinidadian girlfriend Kavell Keir.

• Police say Sky Juliett Samuel, 18, tainted a customer's food with bodily fluids at a Jack's Family Restaurant in Columbus, Mississippi
• Coworker claims she saw Samuel arguing with drive-thru customer on January 7
• Says Samuel put her finger 'in her pants and put it on the bread'
• Samuel surrendered to police on Friday and was released on…

KANSAS CITY ROYALS PITCHER YORDANO VENTURA (LEFT) AND FORMER MAJOR LEAGUER ANDY MARTE (RIGHT) DIED IN SEPARATE ACCIDENTS ON THE SAME DAY.

In a cruel twist of fate, two separate accidents claimed the lives of past and present US baseballers in their native Dominican Republic on Sunday.

Highway patrol spokesman Jacobo Mateo said Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura died on a highway leading to the…