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11/08/2023

- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered Citibank to pay $25.9 million in fines and compensation for discriminating against customers who identified themselves as Armenian Americans when applying for the bank's credit cards.

The government agency, which has the authority to take action against institutions violating consumer financial protection laws, said that the bank treated these applicants as if they were criminals likely to commit crimes.

"The CFPB found that Citi purposefully discriminated against applicants of Armenian descent, primarily based on the spelling of their last name," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a statement published on the agency's website. "Citi stereotyped Armenians as prone to crime and fraud. In reality, Citi illegally fabricated documents to cover up its discrimination."

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📌Source: International Business Times

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11/08/2023

- Over the past few decades, algae have been slowly edging corals out of their native reefs across the globe by blocking sunlight, wearing the corals down physically, and producing harmful chemicals. But in recent years, a new type of algal threat has surfaced in tropical regions like the Caribbean -- one that spreads quickly and forms a crust on top of coral and sponges, suffocating the organisms underneath and preventing them from regrowing.

In an article publishing in the journal Current Biology on November 6, a team of marine biologists report that peyssonnelioid alga crusts, or PACs, are expanding quickly across reefs worldwide, killing off corals and transforming entire ecosystems.

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📍Source: Science Daily

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10/20/2023

- President Joe Biden arrived in Israel for a high-stakes trip amid the war with Hamas. Biden was greeted by Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu before heading to meetings in Tel Aviv.

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08/28/2023

On Sunday, Tropical Storm Idalia formed in the Caribbean, lashing southeastern Mexico with gusts and precipitation, while meteorologists anticipate its transformation into a hurricane before reaching Florida later in the week.

Despite projections indicating that the storm will bypass Mexican landfall, the US National Hurricane Center stated that Idalia will traverse the Gulf of Mexico and approach northwestern Florida.

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📌Source: TOI
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08/01/2023

- Over the past two years, warring gangs in Port-au-Prince have visited terror upon the country’s vital port city with r**e, torture and killing as they vie for territorial control. Thousands of Haitians have fled their homes, gathering in makeshift encampments across the sprawling capital.

A vigilante movement known as “Bwa Kale” struck back brutally earlier this year, stoning and burning suspected gang members in the street – prompting United Nations Special Representative Maria Isabel Salvador to warn in a July report that the movement had set into motion “a new and alarming cycle of violence.”

Hundreds of alleged gang members have been killed by vigilantes across the country, she said.

Conflict in the capital has meanwhile choked the rest of the nation’s supply lines, causing the price of food and energy to spike in other parts of the country.

Flavia Maurello, country director for Italian aid group AVSI, told CNN earlier this month in the southern Haitian town of Les Cayes that a sense of lawlessness had also weakened the social fabric, with local communities turning a blind eye to petty crime and other abuses that before might not have been tolerated.

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07/26/2023

- A tropical wave located southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands off the coast of Africa has been given a 30% chance of developing over the next seven days as it travels west-northwest, while two other systems in the Atlantic are no longer expected to develop.

As of early Wednesday, National Hurricane Center forecasters are no longer monitoring a tropical wave over southeastern Caribbean Sea that had been producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms.

A third system east of the Bahamas will move toward the U.S. over the next several days, but as of early Wednesday, it was given a 0% chance of further development, the National Hurricane Center said.

National Weather Service meteorologist Barry Baxter said the system will likely veer north and not affect South Florida.

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📌Source: Hartford Courant
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07/26/2023

- Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress towards partial regulations to reduce plastic pollution, but the problem is serious and environmental activists are calling for regulations in the entire chain of production, consumption and disposal of plastic waste.

The release of plastic waste into the environment “is the tip of the iceberg of a problem that begins much earlier, from the exploitation of hydrocarbons, to the transport and transformation of these precursors of an endless number of products,” Andrés del Castillo, a Colombian expert based in Switzerland, told IPS.

Ecuadorian biologist María Esther Briz, an activist with the international campaign Break Free From Plastic, said “plastic pollution in our countries is not on its way to becoming a big problem: it already is.”

“From the extraction of raw materials, since we know that 99 percent of plastic is made from fossil fuels – oil and gas – plus the pollutants that are released during the transformation into resins and in consumption, and in the more well-known phase of when they become waste, our region is already very much affected,” the activist told IPS from the Colombian city of Guayaquil.

Plastic production in the region exceeds 20 million tons per year – almost five percent of the global total of 430 million tons per year – and consumption stands at 26 million tons per year, according to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), a coalition of 800 environmental organizations.

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📌Source: Inter Press Service
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05/01/2023

- The Unomia stolonifera, native to Indonesia and the Indo-Pacific, is a pinkish type of pulse coral so called for its dance-like movements in the ocean currents.

It is a popular aquarium ornament — pretty to look at and hardy — with a single polyp fetching as much as US$80 to US$120.

But it is also a killer — settling on native hard corals, rocks and even seagrass which it suffocates and replaces, ultimately destroying entire ecosystems.

Off Venezuela’s north coast, Unomia dominates the ocean floor landscape after being introduced through the illegal aquarium trade around 20 years ago.

“This is an ecological catastrophe,” said marine biologist Juan Pedro Ruiz-Allais, director of Project Unomia, named after the invader he has spent years investigating.

Fish stocks are drastically decreasing in the waters off Venezuela as native reefs, which serve as nurseries and feeding grounds, die off, he told AFP.

“When the reef dies, when it is covered by the Unomia stolonifera, a disruption of the food chain occurs,” said the biologist.

“It is a social, food security, and economic problem because the livelihood of fishermen is compromised.”

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📌Source: The Malay Mail Online

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04/27/2023

- Vigilantes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have taken it upon themselves to fight off the Caribbean nation’s onslaught of gang violence, with a mob having burned 13 suspected gangsters to death Monday. Understaffed and overwhelmed police have done little to insulate civilians from the growing crisis. ”We are planning to fight and keep our neighborhood clean of these savages,” local mechanic Jeff Ezequiel told The Associated Press. “The population is tired and frustrated.”

Armed with machetes, bottles, and rocks, residents in the hilly suburbs of Haiti’s capital fought back against encroaching gangs on Tuesday, a day after a crowd burned 13 suspected gangsters to death in a gruesome outburst of vigilante violence.

Tired of relying on an understaffed police department, scores of men in the Canape Vert neighborhood of Port-au-Prince spent the night on roofs and patrolled entrances of their community blocked with big trucks spray-painted with the words, “Down with gangs.”

“We are planning to fight and keep our neighborhood clean of these savages,” Jeff Ezequiel, a 37-year-old mechanic, told The Associated Press. “The population is tired and frustrated.”

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📌Source: WFIN

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04/04/2023

- The Bahamas has suffered almost triple the amount of hurricane-related losses and economic damage compared to that experienced by other Caribbean countries over the past 20 years, it was revealed yesterday.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), unveiling a $160m “policy based” loan to finance improvements to this nation’s disaster risk management governance, said more frequent and intense storms have cost The Bahamas, its economy and people some $6.7bn in the two decades leading up to 2022.

It pegged that sum as equivalent to more than 50 percent of The Bahamas’ gross domestic product (GDP), or value of its economic output, whereas the loss and damage suffered by Jamaica and Barbados over the same 20 years was estimated at 17 percent and 2 percent, respectively, of their GDPs.

“The economic damage caused by climate-related hazards in The Bahamas, as a percentage of GDP, is higher than in other countries in the Caribbean region. Thus the total damage from disasters in The Bahamas from 2002 to 2022 (over $6.7bn) is equivalent to more than 50 percent of the country’s economy in 2015. Conversely, values for Jamaica and Barbados are 17 percent and 2 percent, respectively,” the IDB report said.

The document reinforces The Bahamas’ extreme vulnerability to hurricanes, weather-related catastrophes and other climate change issues such as sea level rise. When measured in terms of GDP percentages, this nation’s loss and damages are almost three times’ higher on a relative basis when compared to Jamaica. And, in turn, $3.4bn or just over 50 percent of that $6.7bn in total losses and damage was inflicted by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

“The vulnerability of The Bahamas to climate-related hazards is likely to be further exacerbated by climate change. An IDB report estimates that, taking climate change impact into account, a hurricane with a 100-year return period could cause up to $6bn in economic damages if it were to make landfall in The Bahamas,” the IDB added.

“The report also notes that while a hurricane the size of Dorian has been calculated to occur once every 50-100 years in the past, it is now estimated to occur once every 25 years due to the effects of climate change. Another report estimates that the expected coastal inundation area from a 50-year flood in New Providence will be 15 percent larger by 2050 than it is today due to increased precipitation due to climate change.”

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04/02/2023

- Dominican anti-narcotics agents have seized more than two tonnes of co***ne stashed in a shipment of bananas en route from Ecuador to the Netherlands, authorities reported on Saturday.

“During an operation at the Caucedo terminal, which lasted just over 10 hours, the authorities confiscated 2,188 packages, presumably co***ne,” said a spokesman for the National Directorate for Drug Control of the Dominican Republic (DNCDRD). Each package weighed about one kilogram (2.2 pounds).

It is considered the largest seizure ever in the Caribbean nation, where more than five tonnes of drugs have been seized so far in 2023.

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📌Source: South China Morning Post
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03/25/2023

- 19 detained by Dominican police for corruption investigation!

Former public works minister and Dominican Liberation Party presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo, former treasury minister Donald Guerrero and past controller general Daniel Omar Caamao were detained last Saturday night for theft of nearly $350 million and unlawful campaign funding.

On Monday- hundreds of Castillo supporters gathered outside the Justice Palace to protest his detention. They waved the party flag and attempted to damage the structure before police used tear gas to disperse them.

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02/21/2023

- Xiang Xiang, a beloved giant panda born in a Tokyo zoo in 2017, bid farewell to Japan and was sent to China on Tuesday.

China had loaned Xiang Xiang’s parents – Ri Ri and Shin Shin – to Japan as a part of its panda diplomacy.

Sunday was Xiang Xiang’s last day with the public. At least 2600 fans of the giant panda bid farewell to the idol of Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. The zoological park had organized a lottery for the admirers of Xiang Xiang since the demand to see the animal was so high.

Local reports said the fans of the giant panda were teary-eyed to see it for one last time and many held up their cameras to capture Xiang Xiang’s image on their phones.

China sends giant pandas to several counties as a goodwill gesture – often labelled panda diplomacy – but it maintains its ownership over the animals and any of their offspring.

Xiang Xiang was originally supposed to be returned to China in December 2020 but it was delayed due to the pandemic. Reports suggest that she is being sent back to China for breeding purposes.

Reuters reported that Tokyo Ueno Zoo’s first naturally-conceived panda Xiang Xiang was also the first born there for years. Another baby panda died shortly after birth in 2012.

Xiang Xiang’s parents are still at the zoo, as are her younger twin siblings.

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02/08/2023

- Joe Biden’s strong performance at the State of the Union address last night was a blow to critics on the right – and within his own party – and seemed a certain boost to the chances of him running for a second term in the White House in the 2024 election.

And amid questions over his age as the oldest US president in history, at 80, vice president Kamala Harris praised him as bold and vibrant in an interview this morning, while he boosted her in a celebratory tweet.

The whole show appeared to amplify the steady drumbeat that Biden will run again – and put Harris on the ticket with him as he did in 2020.

The president presented his administration’s achievements at last night’s speech including record job growth. He also called on Republicans to help him “finish the job” of ensuring economic recovery and healing sociopolitical divides across the country.

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📌Source: The Guardian
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01/29/2023

- Iran Military Facility blast brought on by Drone strike!

An 'unsuccessful' drone attack, according to Iranian media today, was what produced a loud explosion at a military facility in Isfahan, the capital.

One of the drones was damaged by the air defense, while the other two were caught in defense traps and exploded, according to the statement by the ministry. Fortunately, there were no fatalities, although the workshop sustained minor damage.

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📌Source: Malaymail
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01/23/2023

- Barbados has been selected as the host country for the 41st Caribbean Travel Marketplace.

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) made the announcement on Friday, January 20 during a virtual press conference.

For the first time in CHTA history, the marketplace will run from May 9 to 11 at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Barbados. The event attracts buyers and sellers of tourism products and services from across the region, with more than 1,000 CHTA supplier members from 33 destinations across the region, up to 50 press and almost 200 buyers attending over the two days.

Following the success of 2022 in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean Travel Form will also return for the second year, ahead of the official opening ceremony of the Caribbean Travel Marketplace.

Last year, over 150 delegates including Ministers of Tourism and key private sector leaders engaged in the Caribbean Travel Forum, to focus on the business of tourism. The forum returns as a stand-alone event preceding the Caribbean Travel Marketplace.

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📌Source: Loop Caribbean News
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01/15/2023

- Caribbean contestants had a great showing at the 71st Miss Universe Competition on Saturday as five queens from the region were among the Top 16 semi-final favourites with three advancing to the Top 5 and the Dominican Republic finishing among the Top 3 finalists.

The Caribbean queens who were in the Top 16 included Miss Puerto Rico Ashley Carino, Miss Haiti Mideline Phelizor, Miss Dominican Republic Andreina Martinez, Miss Trinidad and Tobago Tya Jane Ramey and Miss Curacao Gabriela Dos Santos.

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