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Last bastion for small farmer heroes faces death blow from Fusarium
Amandala
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June 29, 2025
With our prized forest having been depleted by the mid-20th century, our economy was steered to The Green Revolution for its salvation. The PUP, under the leadership of George Price, pushed for small farmer involvement in the production of grains,...
Barry dissipates over eastern Mexico; No coastal watches or warnings in effect
WPBF - Florida
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June 30, 2025
Barry dissipates over eastern Mexico; No coastal watches or warnings in effect HAVE A CHECK OF THE ROADS IN A MINUTE. BUT LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT WE’RE LOOKING AT THERE. THAT BIG BLOB. THAT YELLOW BLOB BEHIND YOU. SANDRA, EXPLAIN IT TO US. THE...
Area being monitored for tropical development over southwestern Yucatán Peninsula
WPBF - Florida
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June 29, 2025
TOO CLOSE TO FLORIDA, RIGHT? OH, NOT AT ALL. IT IS GOING TO BE JUST HEADING TOWARDS MEXICO LATER ON TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING. LIKE OVERNIGHT. NO THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES OR SOUTH FLORIDA, BUT THIS ONE COULD BE OUR NEXT NAMED STORM. MOST...
Tropical Depression Two headed toward Mexico
WPBF - Florida
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June 28, 2025
Tropical Depression Two headed toward Mexico Tropical Depression Two formed Saturday and is headed toward the eastern coast of Mexico. TO 60MPH. EVEN SOME HAIL, UP TO ABOUT AN INCH THERE. AND THEN ACROSS OUR AREA, OKEECHOBEE COUNTY STARTING TO SEE...
‘Diplomat for a Day’ programme hosts five young women at CARICOM headquarters
Dominica News Online
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June 27, 2025
Young diplomats for a day. From left: Amelie Burnham; Chanecia La Rose; Kyra Adams; Adana Dorrick; Natassia AshbyOn Tuesday, June 24, 2024, a delegation of young women who assumed diplomatic roles participated in a special commemoration of the...
War veteran: ‘New school site will affect my mental health’
Northern Scot
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June 29, 2025
A father and former soldier claims he is being forced to consider leaving his home because of plans to build a new secondary school. Simeon Crawford, 57, who has lived at War Veterans Cottages, Orchard Road, Forres, for 10 years, is campaigning to...
Tropical Depression Two forms in Gulf over Bay of Campeche
WBRZ ABC 2 - Louisiana
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June 28, 2025
Tropical Depression Two has formed in the Bay of Campeche as of Saturday afternoon and poses no threat to southern Louisiana. The depression is moving toward the west-northwest near 7 mph (11 km/h), and this motion is expected to continue for the...
Young women engage CARICOM official...
SKNVibes
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - Thursday, 26 June 2025) - A group of young women who played the role of diplomats in commemoration of the International Day of Women in Diplomacy on Tuesday, June 24, 2024, were welcomed...
Occupational Safety Bill Returns to House After 11-Year Hiatus
Love FM
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June 28, 2025
The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Bill was first introduced for first reading in the House of Representatives in January 2014. It didn’t see a second reading, but rather, it went for nationwide consultations. Eleven years later, it is back...
Invest 91L: Hurricane hunters to check tropical wave near Mexico's Yucatán for possible development
FOX 35 Orlando - Florida
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FOX 35 meteorologist Laurel Blanchard has the latest conditions in the tropics. The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season runs July 1 - November 30. Download the FOX Local app for tropical alerts and notifications. ORLANDO, Fla. - Forecasters are...
Chances for development increase for Invest L-91 in the Gulf, NHC says
WESH 2 - Florida
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June 28, 2025
Per the National Hurricane Center, the Invest L-91 chances for development in the Gulf have increased. NHC is keeping an eye on the large showers and thunderstorms hanging out over the northwestern Caribbean and Yucatan Peninsula as it heads into...
Houston Zoo mourns death of beloved jaguar Tesoro
KHOU - Texas
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June 27, 2025
After a suffering from complication from a leg injury, the Zoo had to make a difficult decision. HOUSTON — The Houston Zoo announced the loss of Tesoro, an 11-year-old jaguar, who was humanely euthanized Friday morning after health complications...
Cocky PUP’s honeymoon is over after it fattened plump employees
Amandala
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June 22, 2025
There have been a number of lopsided results in general elections post-independence—in 1984, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2020 … and 2025, which was an absolute demolition. On March 12 this year, the incumbent PUP not only won the same number of seats it had...
Saharan dust to tropical disturbances: What's happening in tropics
Sarasota Herald Tribune - Florida
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The National Hurricane Center is tracking several tropical waves and a disturbance in the western Caribbean. There is a potential for tropical development in the Gulf or off the southeast coast of the U.S. in early July. Showers and thunderstorms...
Could Tropical Storm Barry form in the southern Gulf?
AL.com - Alabama
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June 28, 2025
The National Hurricane Center on Saturday continued to watch a tropical disturbance in the southern Gulf (or Bay of Campeche). The system now has a 50 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression, up from 20 percent Friday morning. The Air...
Tropical depression could form later today in southern Gulf as Invest 91L eyes Mexico's east coast
Yahoo News
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**Coverage of Tropical Depression 2/Future Tropical Storm Barry can be found here.** MIAMI - It is looking more likely that a strengthening low pressure center just off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is going to develop into at least a tropical...
Tropical depression could form later today in southern Gulf as Invest 91L eyes Mexico's east coast
FOX Weather
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June 28, 2025
Invest 91L could become the second named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. The system is getting its act together and could be designated a tropical depression by Sunday. **Coverage of Tropical Depression 2/Future Tropical Storm Barry can be...
'Killer bees' spread across southern US; none in Md. or Pa.
Herald Mail Media - Maryland
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Africanized honey bees, often referred to as "killer bees," are now found in 13 states and are slowly spreading northward, attacking people, livestock and pets along the way. In the last three months alone, a man mowing his property died after a...
Houston Zoo’s beloved jaguar euthanized due to critical illness
KPRC - Texas
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June 27, 2025
HOUSTON – The Houston Zoo announces 11-year-old jaguar, Tesoro, was euthanized Friday morning after struggling to recover from a serious leg injury. Six weeks after surgery, zoo officials said Tesoro’s condition took a turn for the worse to the...
Sugar Season Closes with Lowest Cane Delivery on Record
Love FM
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June 27, 2025
The 2024-2025 sugar season is closing tomorrow with the worst cane delivery on record. Love News understands that farmers will not be meeting the nine-hundred-thousand-ton mark for deliveries to the factory. This is reportedly due to several...