Caribbean Fever's Blog – July 2014 Archive (105)

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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged Caribbean nationals and others in the Americas to decrease salt intake to help reduce hypertension – the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

“Salt reduction is recognized as the most cost-effective intervention for population-based prevention of hypertension, and it is one of the…

• Vanessa Williams was accompanying her friends family on a trip to California when she was molested by an 18-year-old girl
• 'She told me to lie down on the floor. She took my bottoms off and she said, 'Be quiet....She went down on me,' said Williams
  
  
• Williams says that the incident…

Sky News' Political Editor Adam Boulton had trouble during a recent live broadcast when a fly flew into his mouth. Rather than spit it out, he struggled for a few seconds while swallowing it and continued his report.

"I swallowed a fly, that's alright. But I've recovered now." he said.

Boulton was on reporting on the United…

Ismael Hernandez got a dose of street justice on Sunday, July 13, when a group of good Samaritans stopped him from stealing a woman's car from a San Diego parking lot.

According to the …

In Teresopolis, a small, quiet suburb in the mountains outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where the Brazilian national team trains, there are still posters around the city welcoming visitors to the home of the Selecao (Brazilian Selection). On street corners, bus stations, and in parks, visitors can find caricatured portraits of a few of the team’s most recognizable players like David Luiz, Neymar,…

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The Portia Simpson Miller led administration will be taking steps to prevent a food shortage as the country continues to experience an extended dry spell.

Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke says a decision will be made this week on whether permits will be issued for the importation of some agricultural products.…

SIR GARFIELD SOBERS (SECOND FROM LEFT) AND SIR VIVIAN RICHARDS (FOURTH FROM LEFT) PICTURED WITH CPL DIRECTOR OF CRICKET TOM MOODY (LEFT); CPL CEO DAMIEN O’DONOHOE (CENTRE) AND CPL CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER PETE RUSSELL.

West Indies cricket icons Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Vivian Richards have been appointed to key roles in the Caribbean Premier…

*Photographs showing Mariah Carey before and after airbrushing have leaked online.

The website Jezebel has published before and after photoshopped pics of the 44-year-old from a Wonderland magazine shoot shot by Terry Richardson.

In the altered images, Mariah’s appearance is adjusted to make her appear slimmer and more tanned. One before shot shows her posing in a…

• Enormous crater appears suddenly in part of Russia whose name translates as 'the end of the world'
• Teams of scientists are rushing east to fathom the cause of this unusual - and rare - geographical occurrence
• One especially outlandish theory talks about a UFO landing as a possible cause of this colossal chasm in the earth…
  
  

Her mother accidentally drowned following a drug binge in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2012.

And now Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina has once again sparked concern for her own wellbeing after allegedly posting a photo to Instagram in which she is smoking what appears to be 

a marijuana bong.…

• Craig Howe, 18, Justin Draper, 18, and Ashari Wilson, 18, of Elmwood Park, have each been charged in the case along with one as-yet-unidentified 17-year-old male suspect
• Unidentified girl was left on her parents lawn with no memory of the assault 
  
  
• Discovered iPhone video her her being attacked…

Written by Jason Sickles For Yahoo News

The celebrating began before the coroner could collect the bodies of Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, the Las Vegas patrol officers ambushed and executed while eating at…

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Ever thought about who makes all the food we purchase? Here’s a graphic to help show you where your money is going when you fill up your grocery cart. How do you feel about only a handful of companies owning a majority of foods that…

NY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO SIGNS BILL INTO LAW FOR NYC MUNICIPAL ID CARDS

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed legislation to create a municipal identification card for Caribbean and other immigrants living in the city, including undocumented persons.

“Even for those who already have IDs, we’re going to make sure that this card brings a lot to the equation, a lot of…

• The girl was brought to a medical clinic in the Philippines on Friday 
• Doctors at the hospital in Zamboanga declared the girl 'clinically dead 
• A relative spotted the girl's head move inside the coffin before the…

Ebola to land on U.S. soil for first time: Infected Americans are controversially airlifted back for treatment with one going to Atlanta isolation unit… but the destination of the other is unknown

• Dr. Kent Brantly landed in Marietta, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, on Saturday morning, from West Africa
  
  
• Second patient, aid worker…

A cancer stricken businessman, shot and killed his wife before committing suicide near the Shore of Peace cremation site at Mosquito Creek, south of here on Friday.

Relatives said that 58-year-old Donald Ragoo had telephoned them soon after shooting dead his 40-year-old common-law wife, Pamela Maharaj, informing them where the bodies would be found. Both bodies bore a single gunshot wound to the…

Dramatic Stamford NightClub Shooting Captured on Video

A 22-year old Connecticut man has been arrested and charged with five counts of first-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, unlawful discharge of a firearm and possession of marijuana, following a shooting outside of Tino's Nightclub in Stamford on Sunday, July 13.…

Mario Gotze scores for Germany in extra time, taking his team to a fourth World Cup title

• World Cup final between Germany and Argentina kicked off at 8pm at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro
• Pre-match closing ceremony featured performances by Shakira and Carlos…

• The shocking advert was made for a leading South African children's charity
• The wealthy white woman is seen feeding the small black child like a dog
• The advert said that domestic dogs are often fed better than many children

 A South African children's charity has been forced to…