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Following are the semifinalists in this year’s Scotiabank Junior Monarch competition. The following results, tabulated by our auditors Pricewaterhouse Coopers, were delivered to our office addressed to our Chief Executive Officer Carol Roberts, today Tuesday, May 30, 2023.     This year the NCF will stage two Scotiabank Junior Monarch tents on Sunday, June 18 The post Semifinalists for […]

Source: CMC – The death toll from last week’s fire at the dormitory of a secondary school in Guyana climbed to 20 on Tuesday after a 13-year-old school girl died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Doctors confirmed that 13-year-old Sherana Daniels had been suffering with injuries related to carbon monoxide inhalation and had The post Death toll from dormitory fire in […]

BBC – An alleged former Russian spy whale has been spotted off the coast of Sweden, says an organisation dedicated to tracking the beluga whale. Named locally as Hvaldimir, the whale was first spotted off Norway’s coast in 2019 wearing a Russian harness. Having spent years travelling slowly southwards from Norway’s far north, the whale The post Alleged former Russian spy whale spotted off […]

The Barbados Water Authority is advising residents and businesses in parts of St. Michael and St. James that it will be conducting emergency repairs on a large diameter main in the vicinity of St. Stephens, on Wednesday May 31st starting around 8 a.m. No customers are expected to be affected by the work, however, should residents The post BWA conducting emergency repairs at St Stephens appeared […]

Associated Press – Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement said. Sam The post […]