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FIBA AmeriCup 2025 – Team profile: Colombia
FIBA Basketball
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MIAMI (United States) – Colombia has experienced remarkable growth in recent years. It went from being a team that wasn’t taken into account to becoming a competitive rival in the region. Today, it boasts the best talent in its history, with...
Could community policing in the Caribbean build trust to prevent violence?
Global Voices
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August 18, 2025
Riot police outside the St. James amphitheatre during the 2009 Drummit2Summit event in Trinidad and Tobago. Photo by Georgia Popplewell on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Imagine a police officer in Trinidad and Tobago who walks the bustling community...
IFZA Panama; An entrepreneurial push to Latin America
GCC Business News
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August 18, 2025
IFZA, one of the world’s most dynamic and fastest-growing Free Zone communities in UAE, has launched IFZA Panama, a landmark step in its global expansion strategy. The new IFZA Panama marks IFZA’s first physical presence in Latin America and...
Four Endangered Mexican Spider Monkeys Rescued From Smugglers Now Thrive At St. Louis Zoo
EdGlenToday - Illinois
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ST. LOUIS — Four endangered Mexican spider monkeys seized from smugglers near the U.S. southern border have found a home at the Saint Louis Zoo where staff hopes their story can spread awareness about the devastating illegal wildlife trade....
Guyanese, Dr. Arif Bulkan is new Judge on Caribbean Court of Justice
News Source Guyana
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August 18, 2025
Guyanese legal luminary, Dr Arif Bulkan, who briefly served as a Court of Appeal Judge in Guyana, has been selected by the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC) to join the Caribbean Court of Justice as a Judge. In a statement,...
Colombia's 'rebel nun' has led decades of spiritual resistance against state violence
Global Sisters Report
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In a homey third-story apartment in Soacha, Colombia, on the outskirts of Bogotá, Sr. Maritze Trigos Torres pulls a plastic bag from a cabinet. Inside are photographs no one should have to see: the decomposing body of Fr. Tiberio Fernández Mafla,...
Cheyenne County welcomes water and cropping systems assistant extension educator
The Fence Post - Nebraska
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August 18, 2025
By Chabella Guzman, PREEC Communications No stranger to the southern Panhandle of Nebraska, Vinicius Zuppa joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center and Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 1 on...
Mexico: Solidarity with indigenous woman defender Silvia Pérez Yescas
International Federation for Human Rights
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August 18, 2025
Abie Anongos, CWEARC, Philippines Abigail Severo Vásquez, Colectiva Ayuuk Toxëjk, Mexico Adolfina Kuum Dolie, Komunitas Peduli Lingkungan, Indonesia Adv Muhammad Bux, Sukaar Welfare Organization, Pakistan Agnes Kharshiing, Civil Society Women...
Here’s why Pan Pan, the D-FW Mexican-Japanese bakery, went viral on TikTok
The Dallas Morning News - Texas
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August 18, 2025
Not even in her wildest dreams did Laura Molinar imagine that one year after opening Pan Pan Bakery and Cafe, there would be lines of people waiting to buy her bread and drinks after one of her videos went viral. At 21, this young entrepreneur has...
Are Vouchers the Beginning of the End for Rural Public Schools?
Texas Monthly
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August 18, 2025
The only time I can remember hearing sirens in Marathon (population 271) was for a school send-off. Six weeks into the 2024 academic year, I stood outside our K–12 public school with the student body and my fellow teachers on a dazzling West Texas...
Reclaiming the radical traditions of workers’ education
Amandla
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August 18, 2025
The Community, Adult and Workers’ Education Chair at the University of Johannesburg asked me to make some closing remarks at its Seminar on Workers’ Education in May. What follows here is a condensed version of my remarks based largely on the...
Ahead of COP30, South America’s Livestock Lobby is Fighting Hard to Hide Its Methane Impact
Green Queen
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August 18, 2025
5 Mins Read As COP30 approaches, South American meat giants have been pushing GWP*, a controversial methane reporting tool that hides their true emissions, with the help of a UC Davis scientist. Controversy is never too far away from the UN’s...
College football gifts: Nick Saban gets new hat, Lincoln Riley finds escape
Times Record News - Texas
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Nick Saban's cozying up to Donald Trump calls for a new hat. As Jon Gruden, Jimbo Fisher seek new coaching jobs, a phone call from a school in need of reignition might make their day. Is Dabo Swinney owed an apology from one Clemson fan? My...
The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel
Wired
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August 18, 2025
IN the Caribbean, summer is supposed to be the season of sun, sand, and crystal clear waters—for decades, Mexican vacation destinations like Cancun, Cozumel, and Tulum have been synonymous with paradise. But then the sargassum began to arrive. For...
Universities offer ‘special track’ for students with foreign roots
The Asahi Shimbun
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Shiv Kumar Gautam, a 23-year-old student who came to Japan as a teenager, nearly gave up his plans to advance to higher education here. “No matter how well I could speak Japanese, I felt I couldn’t compete with native Japanese students in subjects...
Guyana’s Amisha Ramjit Stuns Region with 25 CSEC Passes – One of the Caribbean’s Top Female Students
Times Caribbean
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August 18, 2025
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA – August 18, 2025 – The Caribbean is celebrating a phenomenal academic triumph as Amisha Ramjit of Guyana emerged as one of the top female high school students in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)...
Polokwane’s Achiever Kabe to study orthopaedic surgery in the Caribbean
Polokwane Review & Polokwane Observer
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August 18, 2025
POLOKWANE – True to her name, a member of Jabez Christian Academy’s Class of 2024, Achiever Kabe earlier this week left home to pursue her studies at the St George’s University in Grenada in the West Indies for the next six years. She is enrolled...
CXC Flags Alarming Rise in Exam Cheating – Integrity of Caribbean Education Under Threat
Times Caribbean
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August 18, 2025
Speaking at the May–June 2025 results release ceremony in the Cayman Islands, Dr. Nicole Manning, CXC’s Director of Operations, revealed that a shocking 80 cases of exam irregularities were recorded this year—the highest in recent history. Her...
As BYU spends more on sports, critics ask: Can faith and big-money athletics coexist at LDS Church-run school?
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Provo • When Tanner Wall grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., his weekends fell into a familiar rhythm. He would play his games on Friday, watch BYU on Saturday and pile into the church pews on Sunday. His uncle, J.R. Thulin, played...
Historic Quebec City farmland gets Afro-Caribbean twist
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 18, 2025
Jorry Doréus walks through rows of young molokhia sprouts. The leafy vegetable is mostly found dried or frozen in Canada, imported mainly from Egypt. But Doréus says there is an appetite for the fresh, spinach-like vegetable. From people who miss...