Stories for January 2016

Tuesday, January 19th 2016 - 07:51 UTC
Fourteen countries in a US travel alert for pregnant women because of Zika virus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued travel alert for people traveling to the Caribbean and other areas that have confirmed transmission of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Tuesday, January 19th 2016 - 07:41 UTC
UK floods reach Barbados where UK Environment Agency was basking in the sun

The head of Britain’s Environment Agency (EA) has resigned after being heavily criticized for not cutting his Christmas holiday in Barbados short to return home to lead the response to floods last month. Required to work a three-day week for £100,000 (US$142,992) a year, Sir Philip Dilley said he quit because of the “inappropriate” expectation for him, as a part-time chairman of the EA, “to be available at short notice throughout the year”.
Tuesday, January 19th 2016 - 07:04 UTC
Ice Patrol HMS Protector concludes historic five week patrol to East Antarctica and Ross Sea

The Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol ship has just completed a historic five week patrol to the East Antarctic and Ross Sea. HMS Protector is the first Royal Navy, or UK Government, vessel to have visited the region in 80 years or to have travelled so far south having dipped below 77 degrees latitude.
Tuesday, January 19th 2016 - 06:47 UTC
Bank of America anticipates strong devaluation for bankrupt Venezuela

Bank of America predicted president Nicolas Maduro would merge Venezuela’s three-tier currency controls into two, replacing the strongest rate of 6.3 bolivars to the dollar with a level of 35. Greenbacks go for around 865 bolivars on the black market.
Tuesday, January 19th 2016 - 04:38 UTC
Macri and Cameron are scheduled to meet thirty minutes at the Davos conference

Argentine President Mauricio Macri will fly this Tuesday to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual World Economic Forum, during which he has a full agenda of interviews and meetings with business moguls and political leaders, including Prime Minister David Cameron, US Vice president Joe Biden, Frech PM Manuel Valls and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto. among others.
Monday, January 18th 2016 - 10:32 UTC
Oxfam claims the richest 1% has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined

The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam. It uses data from Credit Suisse from October for the report, which urges leaders meeting in Davos this week to take action on inequality. Oxfam also calculated that the richest 62 people in the world had as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population.
Monday, January 18th 2016 - 09:32 UTC
One year on death of Argentine special prosecutor remains in controversy and unsolved

The mother of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman broke her silence and made it clear she did not believe her son had committed suicide. “He was killed,” Sara Garfunkel said in an interview with the Jewish News Agency (AJN) published on Saturday.
Monday, January 18th 2016 - 09:17 UTC
Falklands' preparing strategic communications plan to report on self determination

The Falkland Islands government is preparing to adopt a strategic communications plan to tell the world of the Islanders right to decide on their future and the degree of self government that has been achieved through democracy.
Monday, January 18th 2016 - 09:07 UTC
Labor leader calls for “accommodation” on the Falklands issue with Argentina

British Labor leader and head of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn has called for “accommodation” with Argentina in the Falkland Islands, and anticipated that any discussions over the future of the Islands should give inhabitants an “enormous say”, but stopped short of giving them a veto.
Monday, January 18th 2016 - 08:36 UTC
Argentina new bills: Evita and Malvinas out, replaced by Andean deer and condor

Inflation plagued Argentina will be issuing higher denomination bills and at the same time will avoid politics and history, concentrating on images of autochthonous fauna in danger of extinction. This means that the latest bills issued, 100 and 50 Pesos, with the image of Evita Peron, and Falklands/Malvinas and the notorious Gaucho Rivero, should quickly become collection pieces.