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Jeannie Kuich Friday, November 27th 2009 I would like to alert the people of the Virgin Islands to the exciting sightings of the International Space Station accompanied by the shuttle Atlantis beginning today and continuing through Monday. The station is...

In the Saltan province of Argentina, hundreds of residents of a small town witnessed the arrival of a massive UFO, which hovered over the local power station. And then all the town's electricity and phones went out for several hours....

The question of whether to buy a Windows PC or an Apple Macintosh has raged on throughout the decades. The definitive answer won't be answered in this short column...That said, let me highlight what experts typically point out regarding each...

A landmark study on child sexual abuse in the Eastern Caribbean has discovered that the problem is escalating in the sub-region and identified emerging forms of abuse, including the use of boys in an organised network to service cruise ship...

Hope Limited, an offshoot of Swallowfield Chapel in Kingston, had, for the past couple of months been organising free seminars at which experts in business have been engaging people in the areas of entrepreneurship. Among the training they received was...

There was no large fake cardboard cheque, no bronze statuettes or plaques, no giant plasma TV screen give-away, no free barbecued chicken or hotdogs. More than 100 parents of children who attend Kensington Basic School (KBS) in Portmore, St Catherine,...

Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods. It's a long way from handing out macaroni...

The Sea Education Association's SSV (sailing school vessel) Corwith Cramer, a 134-foot steel-hulled brigantine, arrived in Christiansted Harbor last Saturday as part of a 12-week undergraduate ocean education program. Eighteen students and the crew of 10 sailed from Woods Hole,...

The survey incorporates data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which contains more than 930 thousand galaxies and 120 thousand quasars, and extends to approximately 2.5 billion light years from Earth. Brough discovered the blue fuzzies while looking at a...

Peru to deploy a Gilat SkyEdge II broadband satellite communications network. Telefonica del Peru SA will use the network at more than 3,500 rural sites nationwide...Internet and VoIP telephony services to remote areas of Peru, providing from e-mail, fast web...