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Nicaragua passes bill criminalizing what gov't considers fake news
REUTERS
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaragua’s congress overwhelmingly passed legislation yesterday to regulate what can be published on social media and in the news, a move critics condemned as a brazen attempt to muzzle opposition to President Daniel Ortega.
Bahamas launches world’s first digital currency
INVEZZ NEWS
China has made central banks around the world start considering, and even exploring and developing CBDCs after it originally revealed digital yuan. However, while China was considered to be in the lead when it comes to the development and testing of its own Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), it appears that another project may have surpassed it.
Caribbean threatened by 1.3M barrels of oil from sinking oil tanker
FORBES
A state of environmental emergency is being called for by fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago over a sinking oil tanker with 1.3 million barrels of oil.
No masks required in Anguilla as island set for Phase 2 of reopening
LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN
Visitors to Anguilla can move around mask free as the island prepares to go into its second phase of reopening.
COVID-19 CARICOM travel bubble in operation
BARBADOS NATION
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda, have started operating the CARICOM Travel Bubble, with the hope of resuscitating the travel and tourism sectors.
Jamaican woman stabbed to death over clothes
JAMAICA STAR
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica - A St Catherine woman was stabbed to death last Saturday, allegedly because of an argument about clothes.
EC$2.5M dengue clean up in SVG
LOOP NEWS
The fight against the spread of dengue fever continues in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico
ALJAZEERA
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Hurricane Delta slammed into Mexico’s Caribbean coast early on Wednesday packing maximum winds of 175kmph (110mph).
Vincentians mistake castor oil leaf with papaya leaf to treat dengue
LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN
St Vincent and the Grenadines which is battling a dengue outbreak has advised the public that it could use papaya leaf extract in addition to the usual management for dengue fever.
Jamaican Wins Prestigious 2020 WE Empower Award
CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW
Jamaican geospatial scientist and Managing Director of GeoTechVision Jamaica, Valrie Grant, has won the 2020 WE Empower UN Sustainable Development Goals Challenge 2020 Award. The award includes a grant of US$20,000.00 towards her company’s Student Digital Citizenship Programme and EduTechAid initiative.
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