Gender experts: Violence costs women their jobs, productivity, financial security
Sunday 21 February 2021
A costumed woman holds signs demanding a national plan on gender-based violence during a march by Women in Carnival around Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain last Monday. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE -
A few days after the decomposing body of murdered law-clerk Andrea Bharatt was found down a precipice in the Heights of Aripo, a woman was held up and robbed by two men on the Aripo junction – an area that hours before had been teeming with police officers and soldiers. The woman, a Cepep worker who lives in Valencia, went to the junction to wait for transportation to go to Aripo village where she was assigned to work. After the attack, the traumatised woman was unable to report to work on that day.
Conscious Cook: Let the sunshine in with a fresh Cara Cara salad
Robin Glowa
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February has been full of swirling snowstorms, ice-slick roads and tumbling temperatures.
Right about now, many conscious cooks begin to pine for the warmth and radiance of summer sunshine. When frigid days and nights are pervasive, a bit of brilliant color and joyous flavor will help defrost and regenerate the system.
Citrus fruits are a beautifully natural ingredient that will rev up the winter table with generous juiciness and vibrant, vivacious hues.
Cara Cara oranges have a particular beauty that cooks can incorporate into their winter meals. A navel orange, the Cara Cara variety was supposedly discovered in the mid 1970s at Hacienda Cara Cara in Venezuela.
Colombia To Offer Temporary Protected Status To 1mn Venezuelan Migrants By AFP News
on February 09 2021 10:11 AM
Colombia will temporarily normalize the status of almost one million undocumented Venezuelan migrants, President Ivan Duque said on Monday during a visit by the UN Refugee Agency.
Some 56 percent around 950,000 of the 1.7 million Venezuelans to have arrived in Colombia fleeing economic and political crises in their homeland, are undocumented and will benefit from the measure. We ve published the decision of our country to create a temporary protected status in Colombia that allows us to normalize these migrants in our country, Duque said, alongside UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
Colombia will temporarily normalize the status of almost one million undocumented Venezuelan migrants, President Ivan Duque said on Monday during a visit by the UN Refugee Agency. "We've published the decision of our country to create a temporary protected status in Colombia that allows us to normalize these migrants in our country," Duque said, alongside UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.