Ukrainian officials say they’ve found at least 10 “torture centers” in territory recaptured from Russia in the country’s east. This follows the discovery of a mass grave containing about 450 bodies at a site near Izium. The Russians occupied the city in the Kharkiv region until a Ukrainian counteroffensive pushed Russian troops from the region last weekend. “This is just […]
Usain St. Leo Bolt, the 36-year-old retired Jamaican sprinter, widely considered the greatest sprinter of all time, has now added another accolade to his well-decorated career. The world record holder in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and 4 × 100 meters relay has been awarded another honorary doctorate degree, this time from Brunel University London. The eight-time Olympic gold medalist, […]
Report by oldest US university lays out history of slavery on campus and its role in perpetuating racial oppression. Harvard University in the United States has released a report on its historic ties to slavery and pledged $100m to address the educational, social, and economic legacies of slavery and racism. Released on Tuesday, the report by a team of Harvard […]
The Dominican government has recently announced that it had reached an agreement with a foreign entity to establish an offshore medical school. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, delivering the 2019-20 national budget to Parliament, said the new facility would replace the US-owned Ross University that left the Caribbean island after 40 years. It later emerged that the university had relocated […]
A federal court judge has found North Korea guilty for the death of Otto Warmbier and ordered the country to pay more than 500 million dollars in damage for the death of the young University of Virginia student. Warmbier was held in North Korea’s prison for over a year on what’s reported as a trump up charge of stealing a […]
Jeffrey Preston Bezos, born January 12, 1964, is reputed to be the richest person in the world. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas. He is one of America’s leading technology entrepreneurs. This renown investor, philanthropist, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon and the world’s largest online retailer is a man on a […]
Leading Jamaican and West Indian poet and writer 70-year-old Lorna Goodison has won a major literary prize. Goodison, who currently divides her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan, was one of eight recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prize. Each writer will each be recognized with a US$165,000 prize to support their writing. […]
According to a news release on nyu.edu website, the university received a whopping number of 75,037 applications for first-year admission, an increase of nearly 12% over last year. The report noted that the university has been breaking application records over the past eleven years consecutively; additionally, applications have roughly doubled during the period. It also noted that NYU has received […]
University of the West Indies (UWI) Principal Professor Archibald McDonald has expressed his disappointment with the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) for the slow pace at which the authority is issuing licenses for legal operation in the cannabis industry. McDonald, who was speaking at MEDICANJA’s introduction of six new cannabis products to the pharmaceutical market, said three years after the Dangerous […]
According to press reports, the University of Notre Dame will no longer provide birth control coverage to students and employees, taking advantage of the Trump administration’s decision to weaken the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate.Additionally, the reports note, the Catholic university previously “made the coverage available through a third-party service separate from the rest of its health insurance and […]
