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We're in real danger of extinction," said Candoshi chief, or apu, Venancio Ucama Simon. Standing next to a Candoshi woman, who doctors said only had two years to live thanks to hepatitis-induced cirrhosis, Ucama called on the government to declare...

The Commonwealth’s stance represents all global communities,” Najib told the Malaysian media on Sunday before departing for home...It also pressed for a legally-binding treaty on industrialised countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emission, proposed a quick start-up fund to help...

For persons living in proximity to the Lucea West River, dredging its bed would help to alleviate the problem of flooding they sometimes experience. However, Easton Edwards thinks it will take more than dredging to solve the problem. The residents...

Being honest on per capita emissions Julian Kenny Tuesday, December 1st 2009 In 1965 Tom Lehrer, the noted Harvard mathematician/entertainer in one of his witty songs entitled ’Who’s Next’ about nuclear proliferation, in his usual spoken preamble to the actual...

New incinerator will quell complaints of Coral Bay residents Monday, November 30th 2009 U.S. Virgin Islands officials met with their British Virgin Islands counterparts recently to discuss the black smoke and toxic fumes that travel from a garbage incinerator on...

Croix recently entered into their second phase of construction and are expected to be 100 percent complete in late 2011 or early 2012...Phase one is running ahead of schedule for its April target completion date, Public Works officials said, and...

If we want to play in the big league we must stop seeing ecological solutions as impositions, say Vikram Sood and Nandita Sood-Perret. T he world's leaders will be meeting in Copenhagen in a few days in what was to...

Carenage were hit hard by yesterday’s heavy rainfall, which caused massive flooding and forced residents to scamper to carry out unplanned clean-up operations. The worst of the flooding occurred along the Diego Martin Main Road, where several stores, restaurants and...

s carbon footprint Monday, November 30th 2009 As PM Manning heads off to Copenhagen to meet with other world leaders to discuss climate change, maybe he can ponder on these issues: l What is the Prime Minister’s carbon footprint? l...