WORLD: Former Liverpool manager dies aged 73 Barbados Today14/12/2020093 views SOURCE: BBC Former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier has died at the age of 73. The Frenchman managed the Reds from 1998-2004 and led them to five major trophies, including the… Read more
WORLD: Google suffers worldwide outage with Gmail, YouTube and other services down Barbados Today14/12/2020095 views SOURCE: Guardian Google has suffered a worldwide outage, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube. Beginning at about 11.50am GMT, the outages appeared to… Read more
WORLD: 11 migrants found dead off of Venezuela’s eastern coast Barbados Today13/12/20200134 views SOURCE: Reuters – Eleven people believed to have traveled from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago were found dead in waters near the South American nation’s coast, Trinidad and Tobago’s coast… Read more
Wall Street Journal column telling Jill Biden to drop ‘Dr.’ title derided as ‘misogynistic’ Barbados Today13/12/20200126 views Wall Street Journal contributor Joseph Epstein faced criticism over the weekend for “misogynistic views” after penning a column suggesting soon-to-be first lady Jill Biden stop using the title “doctor,” though she is… Read more
UK and EU to ‘go the extra mile’ in effort to agree Brexit deal Barbados Today13/12/20200110 views The UK and EU have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders earlier on Sunday. In a joint statement, Boris Johnson and European Commission President… Read more
Hundreds of Nigerian students missing after attack on school Barbados Today13/12/2020095 views Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police have confirmed. The Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked… Read more
Iran executes exiled journalist it accused of encouraging 2017 protests Barbados Today12/12/20200119 views Iran today executed an exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire country-wide economic protests in 2017. The execution has taken place a little more than a year after… Read more
Pandemic forces ‘virtual’ Virgin of Guadalupe day in Mexico Barbados Today12/12/2020098 views For the first time in decades, Mexico’s Roman Catholics were forced on Saturday to abandon what many consider the world’s largest religious pilgrimage, in which millions visit Mexico City’s Basilica… Read more
WORLD – US experts debate Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in live event Barbados Today10/12/20200109 views WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Britain and Canada have already approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine — will the United States be next? Two dozen independent experts convened by the Food… Read more
Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID-19, Trump says Barbados Today Traffic06/12/20200127 views President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, Trump announced on Twitter. “Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” Trump wrote Sunday. While Trump has… Read more