Caribbean Fever's Blog – August 2013 Archive (59)

Experts say the dust clouds contain trace amounts of metals,

microorganisms, bacteria, spores, pesticides and faecal matter.



Clouds of African dust have been sprinkling their contents across the Caribbean for as long as there's been sand in the Sahara Desert. The phenomenon is nevertheless attracting increasing attention from regional…

BANGKOK — Dunkin’ Donuts has apologized for the “insensitivity” of an advertising campaign in Thailand featuring a woman in blackface makeup to promote a new chocolate flavored doughnut.

The Dunkin’ Donuts franchise in Thailand came under criticism Friday after Human Rights Watch called the advertisements “bizarre and racist.”…

We now know Alaskans love a good view (no, not of Russia). California is all about staying young. Connecticut embraces motherhood. And education always comes first in the state of Illinois.

These aren't tourism highlights, but top search terms for each state put out by the adult website, Pornhub.…

• Yun Mi Hoy was discovered late Wednesday night, stabbed 78 times in the face and neck
• Her husband, Ryan Hoy, heard screams from an upstairs bathroom and saw his stepdaughter Isabella Guzman, 18, barricade the door
• Isabella later emerged holding a knife, and Mrs Hoy was already dead
  
  
• Isabella Guzman, 18, had become 'more threatening and disrespectful'…

Lamar Odom's life continues to spiral downward. The NBA player, who is married toKhloe Kardashian, was arrested this morning in California for "driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs"

Odom was stopped in San Fernando Valley for driving too slow on the 101 Freeway--- around 50 MPH. According to police, he was driving in a "serpentine…

It's been one year since the tragic passing of Violator Management co-founder, Chris Lighty. The music industry executive played a huge part in the careers of 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, LL…

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A woman is rushed from the Chauncey St. fire in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

President Barack Obama on Thursday prepared for the possibility of launching unilateral American military action against Syria within days as Britain opted out in a stunning vote by Parliament. Facing skepticism at home, too, the administration shared intelligence with lawmakers aimed at convincing them the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its people and must be punished.

Despite roadblocks in forming an international…

Everybody makes mistakes. Right? In any given occupation, even the most responsible, intelligent, hard-working professional is going to have the occasional D'oh! moment. It's just a shame when an on-the-job slip-up involves something like a recently donated kidney being thrown in the garbage by a nurse. Especially when that recently donated kidney came from a very much alive man whose older sister was waiting to receive said internal organ.…

Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley and Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar (File Photo)The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has described as “vulgar” the decision of the government to amend the Municipal Corporations Act to introduce the concept of proportional representation in Trinidad and Tobago.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar,…

Mike Tyson has been very open about the fact that he's battled drug and alcohol addiction in the past. After four and a half years of being sober he went out for a night of drinking. The guilt of relapsing has the former boxing champion questioning things in his life.

While promoting a boxing event at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona , N.Y,…

Jimmie D. Smith, a 41-year-old freshman basketball coach at John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson, has been charged with dealing cocaine and assaulting several law enforcement officers.

A veteran Paterson high school basketball coach and teacher's aide has been arrested on drug charges after allegedly injuring several police officers as he tried to flee, authorities said.…

It's good to have a goal in life, but the one purportedly expressed by a woman in Warsaw, Poland, may be a stretch.

Ania Lisewska, 21, is allegedly attempting to travel to every city in the world so she can have sex with at least 100,000 men for 20 minutes each.…

A half-century to the day that REV. Martin Luther King Jr delivered his clarion call for justice from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, tens of thousands reconvened near that spot Wednesday to hear from one of his symbolic heirs, amid hope and frustration about the current state of race relations in America.

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• Legislation to tackle growing problem of 'revenge porn' being considered
  
  
• Spurned lovers who post graphic images of ex face prison sentences
• Those convicted of malicious intent could also be fined $1,000
  
  
• A leading campaign group hopes other…

Two people pledging support to Weiner have worked for him

Former front-runner struggling after sexting scandal damaged poll rating

Two of the 'regular New Yorkers' featured in the latest Anthony Weiner campaign video have worked for the mayoral candidate.

The…

A teenager with an extremely rare genetic disease that causes him to age ten times faster than other children is hoping for a miracle cure, despite seeing five of his siblings die from the same affliction.

Ali Hussain Khan from Bihar, India, is only 14 years old, but the condition, called progeria, has given him the body of a 110-year-old, according to the Daily…

When the British Metropolitan Police's Marine Policing Unit intercepted a military-grade boat reportedly filled with armed criminals, they were prepared for the worst. Their discovery, however, wasn't the stuff of great crime heist.

What began as an innocent photo-op featuring Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Daniel Craig celebrity impersonators, quickly…