Daily Archives: Mar 10, 2017

The fifth Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas (RP17) has ended here with at least 50 countries, including those in the Caribbean, endorsing a regional action plan (RAP) for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015 – 2030 in the Americas.

Guyana health officials say there has been a significantly decline in the number of suicides in region Three and attributes the success to the collaborative efforts of several organisations.

The Trinidad and Tobago government says it will dissolve the Tourism Development Authority (TDA) as it announced new initiatives to develop the tourism sector.

The Dominica government says a United States-based firm that conducted conduct studies for the construction of an international airport, will present its findings to Cabinet next month amidst a call by the private sector for the Roosevelt Skerrit administration to re-engage in the population on the matter.

Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a second child, a daughter, the billionaire internet mogul said on Thursday.

King Kong is back again - not climbing the Empire State Building clutching a distressed damsel in his colossal clutches, but as the mighty protector of a remote island in the 1970s.

MGM Holdings Inc is in talks to acquire the 81 percent of Epix it does not already own from two of its partners in the premium U.S. channel, Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) and Lionsgate LGFA.N, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Cable channel HBO said on Thursday it is planning a dramatized TV miniseries about the extraordinary 2016 U.S. presidential, one of the first of several such projects being discussed in Hollywood.

The premiere date of HBO's medieval fantasy series "Game of Thrones" was announced with fiery fanfare on Thursday, as a block of ice was melted live online to reveal the July 16 start of the new season.

A helicopter carrying an executive of the Turkish Eczabicasi group and four Russians, including the firm's Russian operations chief, crashed in Istanbul on Friday, killing five of the seven people on board, the company's chairman said.