Caribbean Fever's Blog – July 2019 Archive (99)

The United Kingdom is going through tough times. Boris Johnson, a straw-haired charlatan whom Donald Trump called “Britain Trump,” has become prime minister via a long series of compounding national blunders,…

First, parents turn over guardianship of their teenagers to a friend or relative. Then the student declares financial independence to qualify for tuition aid and scholarships.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus pictured on Monday. (Kristen Norman for ProPublica Illinois)…

Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic

The Barbados government is working on new legislation that will provide the legal framework for organs to be harvested from donors after death.

Over the last 30 years, about 19 transplants had been performed at the country’s sole public hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, but these transplants have been limited to organs from live…

• Jyoti Gambill-Read from Minnesota was born 'intersex' without typical organs
• She developed as a boy in utero for around 12 weeks before process stopped
• The 18-year-old identifies as female and has taken estrogen since her…

• Researchers at Penn State have conducted a series of studies to quantify the cost of the opioid crisis
• This is the first comprehensive tally, looking at crime, Medicaid and loss of work
• State Medicaid programs spent at least $72…

• Spots dietitian Ryan Pinto has revealed the benefits of ripe and unripe bananas  
• Green bananas have the least sugar while brown bananas have the most 
• Brown spots reveal the presence of sugar but also indicate high antioxidants 
• Spotted ones are so rich in them that they've…

• The gunman was named on Monday as Santino William Legan, a 19-year-old 
• He was shot dead at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California at 5.41pm Sunday 
• Witnesses say he was dressed in army fatigues, had a handkerchief around his…

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire

An effort to stop the house to house registration being conducted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to compile a new voters list has failed.

But Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire, who this morning denied the application for an injunction that was filed by attorney Christopher Ram, will rule early next month, after hearing from both…

• Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, and Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, spent a second night in a Rome jail Saturday after the death of officer Mario Cerciello Rega 
• A photo of Natale-Hjorth shows him blindfolded and handcuffed behind his back 
• The two teens were high school classmates in Mill Valley, a wealthy suburb…

A popular Atlanta, Georgia dancer is going viral on social media this morning because she took to the stage on Friday at the club where she works - and twerked like her life depended on it.

• Juan Rodriguez has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide over the deaths of his one-year-old twins Luna and Phoenix  
• The social worker, 39, accidentally left the babies in the back seat of his car on Friday while he worked an eight hour shift at a veterans hospital in The…

• Twelve people were shot on a playground in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn Saturday night
• At least one person has died from their injuries - a 38-year-old man - according to police sources
• A child is reported to be among those injured in the mass shooting 
• The shooting came as the…

• Trump slammed Baltimore in a series of tweets on Saturday morning
• Was responding to remarks from Rep. Elijah Cummings who represents the city 
• Called the Maryland congressman 'a brutal bully' from a 'disgusting'…

The principal says she was barred from even attending her own child's elementary school graduation because the district was so eager to get rid of her on the basis of skin color…

• A nightclub balcony has collapsed in Gwangju, South Korea killing two people 
• Four athletes from the US national water polo teams were among those injured  
• Kaleigh Gilchrist of Newport Beach,…