We Are Losing The Battle Against Ebola
Overcrowded hospitals, over-tired and decimated doctors working in absolutely terrible sanitary conditions, narrow-minded, impossible to control mob, volunteers’ appeals for help unheard – it sounds like a petrifying horror...
The top 4 most provocative documentaries
Since their advent, documentaries’ purpose has been to inform, and to make us think about things in new ways. In the quest to gather and record history, forever capturing moments in time, documentarians have travelled the glo...
Colombia’s “citizen portfolio” program could infringe privacy rights (and more)
Under the “Live Digital” initiative, Colombian Minister of Information and Communication Technologies Diego Molano is pushing a policy program under which the government will bestow upon each citizen a “digital portfo...
UK Students Stand Up To Cancer In Their Underwear
Over the summer, Cancer Research UK has hosted a wide range of fundraising runs all over the country. Their ‘Race for Life’ events began as early as April/May and go on until October, with women from all walks of li...
Ebola: A real threat to the West?
Awareness of ebola in the Western consciousness has increased dramatically in the past few weeks after the first person in Europe (a nurse based in Madrid) was reported to have contracted the virus. This was closely followed b...
Too Late For Jamaican Government To ‘Kiss And Make Up’ When It Comes To Chikungunya
As Chikungunya, a mosquito-born virus that causes high fever and acute joint pain, continues to run rampant throughout the Caribbean, regional governments have been grappling with how to deal with the outbreak. In Jamaica, w...
