With a wide selection of Portuguese and Brazilian foods and wines, the Bacalhau Grill Restaurant & Market in San Jose is a home away from home for some.
Barbadian chess players Hannah Wilson and Chanon Reifer-Belle landed mid-table finishes at the 32nd Pan American Youth Championship in Uruguay.The two Queen’s College students both ended with four and a half out of a maximum nine points in the Girls’ Under-14 category when the week-long event ended on Saturday at the Radisson Victoria Plaza Hotel in Montevideo.The two Bajans were among seven players level on points as Wilson took ninth place and Reifer-Belle 13th out of the 19 entrants in the section.Wilson, who won silver in the Under-12 division at last year’s Pan American Youth Festival which was played under a hybrid format, was in medal contention after seven rounds but lost her final two games.
National Geographic marine biologist Sylvia Earle on Friday warned of the price to be paid for deep sea mining to produce batteries capable of storing energy, as has happened with fossil fuel exploration.
Regardless of who perpetrated the attempted coup, President Embalo appears to remain committed to fighting the drug trade, and Guinea-Bissau’s judicial police force continues to lead the fight against corruption as the country’s most effective enforcement agency.