Caribbean Fever's Blog – May 2017 Archive (120)

Bermuda Parliament Says No to Same-Sex Marriage, Yes to Cannabis

Bermuda has reversed marriage equality, with Governor John Rankin finally approving the Domestic Partnership Act 2017 that replaces same-sex marriage with domestic partnerships that can be entered into by both gay and heterosexual couples.

“After careful consideration in line with my responsibilities under the Constitution, I…

• Anna Hayes, a high school senior from Lake Village, attended prom last week with her friend Phillip Freeman, who happens to be black
• She posted the pictures on Facebook where her father, whom she does not live with, saw them
• He then sent her a string of racist, abusive texts telling her not to contact him ever again
• Anna said she knew he was racist but…

THREE MONTHS AFTER HE WAS FIRED AS THE GOVERNMENT’S CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER, DR DELISLE WORRELL IS INSISTING THE IMF IS VIRTUALLY THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE FOR THE FREUNDEL STUART ADMINISTRATION.

Former Governor of the Central Bank Dr Delisle Worrell has advised the Barbados Government to seek immediate help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to steer the economy out of its current rut.

In an…

Funkmaster Flex continues to catch heat from friends of the late rap icon Tupac Shakur. Treach of Naughty By Nature recorded a diss song titled "Whoooh." Now, West Coast legend Spice 1 is taking shots at…

Tim Westwood unearths another rare freestyle. This is an unheard one from Big Daddy Kane circa 2000. Give it a listen up…

Prince Philip will retire in autumn this year (Picture: PA)

Prince Philip is to permanently retire from royal duties, an emergency meeting of senior Royal Household staff have been told at Buckingham Palace this morning, according to the BBC.

Buckingham Palace said in a statement it was the Duke’s decision taken with the support of the Queen.

The 95-year-old will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn.

Prime…

• The messaging app was stuck on the 'Connecting...' screen and wouldn't work
• It mostly affected users in Europe and the UK, but the US was also impacted
• Facebook, which owns the app, is declining to say why it was affected 
• Glitch happened the same day WhatsApp announced it was beating Snapchat
• WhatsApp Status has 175m users;…

• Kotap was stored in a 10 sq ft box for two years by his captor in West Kalimantan
• Baco, his captor, claims he was given Kotap by some people in a nearby village
• Footage shows the moment the adorable ape is freed by International Animal…

• WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 
• Woman filmed walking naked through Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday afternoon
• Incident happened inside Terminal B where Delta Airlines is housed
• At one point, she stops and…

Jordan Edwards’ brothers witnessed devastating police shooting

• Former Balch Springs, Texas cop Roy Oliver, 37, charged with murder Friday 
• Oliver fatally shot Jordan Edwards, 15, on April 29 as he was leaving a party 
• Cop was fired from his department days later on May 2 amid public…

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DIRECTOR OF TRUST AND SAFETY AT FACEBOOK, EMILY VACHER, AT YESTERDAY’S LAUNCH

Starting today, alerts about missing children in Jamaica, called Ananda Alerts, will be delivered to Facebook users in the country – the first time this has happened in any Caribbean country.

The initiative is a partnership between the Ananda Alert Secretariat in the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) and the online social media…

A WAX WORM CHEWING A HOLE THROUGH PLASTIC. (PHOTO CREDIT: FEDERICA BERTOCCHINI, PAOLO BOMBELLI, AND CHRIS HOWE)

Plastic waste fouls the ocean, poisons marine life, defaces the environment and clogs gutters and landfills; sticking around for years without breaking down and with no viable solution in sight.

That was until the recent discovery that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the…

WITH EUGENE RHUGGENAATH AT THE HELM FOR THE FIRST TIME, HIS PARTY WON SIX OF THE SEATS UP FOR GRABS IN LAST FRIDAY’S ELECTION.

It appears Eugene Rhuggenaath could be Curacao’s next prime minister, after his liberal Party for the Restructured Antilles (PAR) won six of the 21 seats up for grabs in last week’s election.

The other 15 seats were split between the other 10 parties competing in last Friday’s poll,…

Avante-garde fashion can easily go south.

And while Pharrell's wife Helen Lasichanh won points among many fashion bloggers Twitter had its own response to her choice of attire at the Met Gala on Monday in New York City.

Wearing a Comme des Garcon full body suit with a pillowy design, which pinned her arms to her sides without outlets, the blonde certainly proved she is bold…

On Monday, bananas were found to be hanging from strings, which were fashioned in the shape of nooses, in three different locations on American University’s campus.

According to the school, the bananas were marked with “AKA,” the abbreviation for Alpha Kappa Alpha, which is a historically black sorority.

American University President Neil Kerwin issued a statement after the…

• Video, filmed on a Japanese ANA flight on Monday, was posted online
• Footage shows the men throwing punches at each other from their seats
• One man shouts  'Someone help! This guy is crazy' as staff tried to separate…

Can you believe Congress plans to cancel Obama's government pension following news of 400K speaking fees and a 65Million book deal?

While Republicans celebrate passing a bill that could potentially leave over 20 million Americans uninsured, provide tax cuts for the WEALTHY and prove disastrous for people with pre-existing conditions, there are a few Republicans who didn't even bother to read the…

• Horror actor Troy James twists his body into an unimaginable shape 
• Head upside down he crawls across the floor looking like a movie monster 
• The video was uploaded to Instagram where it's been viewed thousands of times…

White gunman with 'a beer in one hand, a gun in the other' opens fire on black pool party guests at luxury apartments - leaving at least one dead and seven hurt before cops kill him in San Diego

• Peter Selis opened fire during pool party at apartment complex Sunday night
• The 49-year-old killed one woman and injured seven others during…