Streetart – Voyder @ Glasgow, UK

Voyder @ Glasgow, UK Location: Glasgow, UK Artist: Voyder At: Yardworks Address: 2-1 Vine St. Photo Credits: Perniciaro Salvatore USEFUL LINKS: …

Streetart – Voyder @ Glasgow, UK

Political will and maturity required for a consensus on crime in Jamaica

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The number of murders in Jamaica passed the 1,000 mark for the year recently (can you imagine). It is always a grim milestone. We measure our “crime problem” by the number of lives lost – men, women and children – every year. They are not numbers. They are grandmothers. They are schoolchildren. They are abused women. They are lost young men. They are farmers and bartenders and teachers and students and unemployed and homeless and seniors and retirees and the mentally ill and yes – gang members.

Let me remind you that Jamaica currently has the second highest murder rate in the Americas (or rather, in the world) this year to date – it is 43.85 per 100,000 people, after El Salvador.

Residents of Gayle, St. Mary, gather at yet another murder scene, this time of a well known retired teacher. (Scene grab from the “Frankly Speaking” podcast).

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Russian journalist facing 24-year jail term for treason refuses to sign ‘confession’ | Russia | The Guardian

Moments before the journalist Ivan Safronov was told he would be facing 24 years in prison, a Russian prosecutor offered him a deal.

Sign a confession, she said during a final courtroom break, and she would recommend a 12-year sentence instead. Safronov answered immediately.

“He told her to get lost,”said Evgeny Smirnov, his lawyer, in an interview. “He told her that fairly harshly.”

A Russian judge is expected to deliver a verdict on Monday in one of the most significant prosecutions against a Russian journalist in decades.

Safronov, a former military correspondent for Kommersant and Vedomosti, is facing a “record” sentence on treason charges that have been prosecuted with secret evidence behind closed doors.

Source: Russian journalist facing 24-year jail term for treason refuses to sign ‘confession’ | Russia | The Guardian

Fishing at Sea Created at Least 75% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Slashdot

Plastic emissions from rivers remain the main source of plastic pollution from a global ocean perspective. Plastic lost at sea has a higher chance of accumulating offshore than plastic emitted from rivers, leading to high concentrations of fishing-related debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch [or GPGP]. New findings confirm the oceanic garbage patches cannot be cleaned solely through river interception and highlight the potentially vital role of fishing and aquaculture in ridding the world’s oceans of plastic…. Source: Fishing at Sea Created at Least 75% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Slashdot