Caribbean Fever's Blog – April 2014 Archive (81)

Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A firefighter who came upon the body gently pulled the toddler from her arms.

“It makes you just take a breath now,” said next-door neighbor Kenneth Billingsley, who witnessed the scene at what was left of Ruth’s Child Care Center in this logging town of 6,600. “It makes…

When the size of a country’s wealth doesn’t match its pace of social progress

Tony Best

Two Caribbean nations, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago have made significant strides in meeting the basic human needs of their people, more so than much larger and wealthier countries.

And they have achieved that benchmark while outpacing…

New York City spends more than a million dollars every year to distribute free condoms to combat unintended pregnancies and diseases such as AIDS. Yet city police are allowed to confiscate those very condoms as evidence of prostitution.

That conflict is behind the latest legislative proposal to make New York the first state to prohibit condoms – specifically the existence of multiple condoms – from being used…

Donald Sterling tells Anderson Cooper: I was 'baited' into 'a terrible mistake' {VIDEO}

*As expected, certified d***head and a-hole racist, Donald Sterling is not going to quietly go away.

According to reports, the 80-year-old Los Angeles Clippers owner has hired prominent antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher, who wrote a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan threatening to…

Let's first address what we know to be true. Pia Mia is a model, singer and actress thatKanye West has taken a professional interest in.

The superstar producer/rapper has been working with Pia, real name, Pia Mia…

Anti-homosexuality Pastor Martin Ssempa, perhaps best known for his so-called "eat the poo-poo" lecture, is now being accused of promoting homosexual behavior in his home country of Uganda.

Booking photo of Ana Rosa Mora (Photo from Chicago Police Department)

An 18-year old Chicago woman has been charged with first-degree murder is connection with the bizarre killing of her newborn baby.

Ana Rosa Mora gave birth to a baby boy on Saturday, April 19, then put him in a plastic WalMart bag and placed him…

• Multi-millionaire CEO of RadiumOne, Gurbaksh Chahal, 31, was charged with 45 felony counts relating to an assault on his girlfriend in August
  
  
• CCTV allegedly showed him hitting and kicking her 117 times in 30 minutes 
  
  
• The footage was ruled inadmissible before it was gathered without a…

• Frank Phillips, 47, was found 'unsuitable for continued employment' by Knox County Sheriff J.J. Jones
  
  
• Deputies were called to a University of Tennessee student party that spilled out onto a residential street
• Students threw beer bottles at officers and several people were…

• Foal with stripy legs and brown body is rare cross between a zebra and a donkey

What's black and white and looks like a donkey? A zonkey!

The animal is just as it sounds: a rare and unusual cross-breed between a zebra and a donkey.…

Hundreds of friends in gowns and tuxedos hold memorial instead of prom {VIDEO} 16-year-old Connecticut girl killed by jilted teen after she refused to go to junior prom with him

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, 67, sparked a firestorm of criticism after suggesting that Black Americans were “better off as slaves” rather than being free and accepting money from the federal government, reports the L.A. Times.…

• Fuel tanks ditched by aircraft during the Vietnam War are still scattered throughout the country's forests
  
  
• Local farmers have started customising the hollow aluminum tubes to be used as river boats and canoes
  
  
• Auxiliary fuel tanks were ditched by fighter jets as they limited…

• Dan Bilzerian has gained the reputation of 'Instagram's Biggest Playboy' after sharing images of his hard-partying lifestyle with his 1.4m followers
• The professional poker player is reportedly worth $100 million
• A video has emerged showing him lifting up naked teen porn star Janice Griffith and…

In a radio and television broadcast on Thursday night, Prime Minister Spencer…

Beyonce was honored by Time Magazine by being named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. She also lands one of four covers. Jason Collins, Robert Redford and Mary Darra nabbed the other three.

Sheryl Sandberg,COO of Facebook and the founder of LeanIn.org had this to say about Mrs.…