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Some advantages and disadvantages of foreign Aids

By Sir Richard Yatta Morris Advantages & Disadvantages of Foreign Aid advantages and disadvantages of foreign aid Foreign aid (sometimes also …

Some advantages and disadvantages of foreign Aids

Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land for your pet’s food, report says — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

This used to be Rainforest on Indigenous land Commodity-trading giants Cargill and Bunge source some of the soy used in products like chicken feed …

Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land for your pet’s food, report says — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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Al caer la tarde, camino sobre durmientes de madera vieja y apolillada que apenas sostienen, por el agotamiento que sienten, rieles de acero envejecidos, por donde un día y tantos más transitó el ferrocarril, vías que, al extenderse en el horizonte, parecen acercarse una a la otra con el deseo de darse un abrazo, un beso que solo es anhelo e impaciente espera porque, un día no recordado, quizá muy lejano, alguien, al fundir el hierro y darle forma, lo sujetó y lo dejó atrapado en la tierra para seguir una ruta definida, entre una estación y muchas más, sin opción de desviarse. Piezas de acero, sobre trozos de madera, que durante años y décadas soportaron el dolor de una carga que no era la suya. Cuando alguien extrajo el mineral de las piedras y de las entrañas de…

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For Jamaica’s children and adolescents: Issa Trust Foundation plans a new clinic with a holistic approach

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Philanthropy is alive and well in Jamaica; but the need is great. Our vulnerable children and adolescents need help. On the north coast of the island, the Issa Trust Foundation (which has been working in Jamaica for the past 17 years) is planning to make a difference to their physical and mental wellbeing by building a free non-governmental clinic on a donated lot of land at Richmond Estates, twenty minutes from Ocho Rios in St. Ann. The Foundation is seeking to start construction by early 2023 and to begin operations as early as 2024.

An architect’s drawing of the planned clinic at Richmond Estates, St. Ann

The clinic will focus on pediatric and adolescent patients up to age 19 years old. The Trust is looking for co-funding partners, and fundraising is well under way. The aim is to create an atmosphere that engages both patients and families in multifaceted services…

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Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world | Environment | The Guardian

That reliance on a small number of crops has made agriculture vulnerable to pests, plant-borne diseases and soil erosion, which thrive on monoculture – the practice of growing only one crop at a time. It has also meant losing out on the resilience other crops show in surviving drought and other natural disasters…

Source: Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world | Environment | The Guardian

Cruelty to animals: when is Jamaica going to enact and implement stronger laws to protect them?

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A kick, a blow, a “chop” with a machete. For some Jamaicans, these are commonplace ways of dealing with unwanted animals.

It is not only painful and heartbreaking. Cruelty to animals is not something we should take lightly at all, as a society. It is a reflection of our humanity and our ability to deal with conflict and show love and empathy – towards each other, as well as innocent animals that cannot defend themselves.

I wrote about our “rescue dogs” last year for Global Voices, when 144 Jamaican “Royal Caribbean Terriers” (i.e. mongrels) were flown out to Canada from Jamaica, to new homes. Photos later emerged of the dogs happily wearing woolly coats, out for a walk in the snow.

A lovely Jamaican rescue dog being checked out before flying to a new home in Canada. (Photo: Jamaicans.com)

No one can deny that Jamaica is currently drowning, as wave…

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