By Staff, Cuba Debate | CCS | Translated to English by Haiti Chery. CELAC is made up of 13 member nations from the Caribbean, 13 from South America, 6 from Central America, and 1 from the southern part of North America, whose leaders have agreed to promote an organization that will form a block in addressing the world’s challenges. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By William Lee Adams, Global Spin. An estimated 1,000 demonstrations by public sector workers are taking place throughout the U.K. Union leaders say the Prime Minister was asking for it.
Continue reading →By Kristin Palitza, IPS. DURBAN, South Africa – The UN program to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) has been touted as a global scheme to conserve forests but is just a way to pour a lot of money into forests so international investors make big profits.
Continue reading →By Staff, Ahram Online | Staff, TV New Zealand. Suez Port workers blocked the delivery of an initial 7-ton shipment of tear gas into Egypt. A three-stage shipment totaling 21 tons is on course for the port from the American port of Wilmington, with tear-gas canisters made by the American company Combined Systems.
Continue reading →By Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS. Bangkok is paying the price of ignoring warnings over many years concerning its climate vulnerability and the incapacity of its soggy foundations to handle flooding.
Continue reading →By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes | Staff, Southern Poverty Law Center. Young immigrants in Alabama were joined by allies from labor and civil rights groups for a series of actions to announce they are undocumented and unafraid. UPDATE: Federal District Court halts Alabama law’s discriminatory housing practice.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. More frog species live in Haiti than anywhere else in the Caribbean, and many different species of the small lizard anole also make Haiti their home. These animals have attracted the attention of well-meaning conservationists as well as soulless seekers of fame.
Continue reading →By Roger Cohn and Doug Peacock, Yale Environment 360. “…if the bear can make it, I always assume maybe we’ve got a shot, too. The bear is equally important to me because it’s the one animal out there that can kill and eat you about any time it chooses to, even though it seldom does. And it just stands as an instant lesson in humility.” – Doug Peacock
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Libre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Lamothe announced that the Cap Haitien International Airport will be ready in February 2013. Work on the airport will be done for $33 million, with assistance from Cuba and Venezuela.
Continue reading →By Roger Annis and Jorge Balseiro Estevez, Haiti Liberté | CHAN | Haiti Chery translation. “The Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade has treated more than 18 million cases in Haiti. We have performed 304,577 surgeries and vaccinated 1,501,076 people. We estimate the number of lives we have saved is 284,239.”- Dr. Balseiro Estevez. Gracias a Cuba! (English | French)
Continue reading →By Morgan Kelly, Seed Daily | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Invasive non-native species, such as rodents who pollinate plants, can become essential to ecosystems, according to a discovery that could change how scientists and governments approach the restoration of natural spaces.
Continue reading →By Amy Coopes, Cosmos Magazine. Rocks from two ‘islands’ on the remote sea floor 1,600 km west of Australia contained fossils of creatures found in shallow waters, meaning the ‘islands’ were once part of the continent at or above sea level.
Continue reading →By Peter Matambanadzo, The Herald via All Africa. Out of 49 potential bottlers that submitted their water for testing and possible certification, only nine were advised that their water was suitable for bottling.
Continue reading →By Staff, Granma | By Will Matthews, ACLU. In the last eight years, 126 undocumented immigrants have died while in detention centers operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities. Complete ACLU detention report included.
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