By Humberto Márquez, IPS. The Venezuelan government has expropriated 25 ranches to distribute 15,800 hectares (39,042 acres) to communities of Yukpa Indians in the northwest of the country who have been protesting to be returned the lands from which they had been driven. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Philipp Hedemann, IPS | Street News Service. Since 2008 there has been an unprecedented rush to secure farmland in Africa, South America and Asia. The main commodities include sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat, soy, sorghum, sesame, oil seeds, and child labour.
Continue reading →By Jonathan Benson, Natural News via OpEd News. Baxter is recalling 300,000 doses of its Preflucel influenza vaccine due to an excessive number of adverse events.
Continue reading →By Jim Siegel and Joe Vardon, Columbus Dispatch. Voters defeated Senate Bill 5 — Issue 2 — which would have limited collective bargaining by the Ohio public sector, this U.S. state’s biggest employer of people of color.
Continue reading →By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (1990), publishers Gollancz (UK), Workman (US) | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Excerpt from Good Omens: a prescient and hilarious book about the coming end times. This excerpt describes being pulled over by an extraterrestrial.
Continue reading →By Steve Connor, The Independent. From the Arctic sea to the Antarctican ice shelves, the frozen “cryosphere” is showing the unequivocal signs of climate change.
Continue reading →By Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports | By Helda Martínez, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nationwide protests are planned by Colombian students, teachers, and labor unions against a law that would allow private businesses to invest in public institutions for higher education. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal | Martha Grevatt, Grevatt blog. This electoral landslide represents an enthusiastic vote of approval for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and a huge blow to the Nicaraguan right.
Continue reading →MercoPress via Haiti Chery. China’s People’s Liberation Army “Peace Ark” ship carries more than 100 medical volunteers who are providing free surgery, CAT scans, eye care and other procedures to Jamaica’s needy.
Continue reading →BirdLife International | Haiti Chery. The Hispaniolan Parakeet (Aratinga chloropteras) might be common in Haiti’s Massif de la Selle and la Citadelle area of the Massif du Nord.
Continue reading →By James Brownsell, Al Jazeera | Haiti Chery. As Israeli civil and military forces uproot olive trees and replace them with eucalyptus on 12 km along the edge of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians gardeners and their supporters plant many more olive trees.
Continue reading →By Holly Klaft, Jackson Citizen Patriot. Only 500 whooping cranes are left in the wild, and this year one stopped for the first time in a small Louisiana town during his southerly migration.
Continue reading →By Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. DINEPA, Haiti’s office for the National Administration of Sanitation and Drinking Water announced that it will no longer distribute drinking water to 17 of the Port-au-Prince camps for the internally displaced. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Libre | Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Canada and the U.S. are itching to build prisons in Haiti, although Haiti has the lowest per-capita number of inmates in the Caribbean, and 70 percent of those incarcerated have never been tried. (English | French)
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