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Influential MP proposes BOTs elected representation in Westminster
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 25 July 2017 (MercoPress) - An influential Tory MP has said that increased devolution powers to the Home countries has made lack of Westminster representation for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories a great unfairness, and it is time to end the outdated system of treating them like Colonies. |
Tobago gears up to fight sargassum invasion
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, 25 July 2017 (IPS) - As Tobago’s tourism industry struggles to repel the sargassum invasions that have smothered its beaches with massive layers of seaweed as far as the eye can see – in some places half a metre thick – and left residents retching from the stench, the island’s government is working to establish an early warning system that will alert islanders of imminent invasions so they can take defensive action. |
Saltwater crocodile attacks terrorise Solomon Islands
LONDON, UK, 25 July 2017 (Guardian) - A growing number of crocodile attacks is forcing police in the Solomon Islands to shoot the animals and to consider lifting a 30-year ban on exporting their valuable skins in order to control the population. |
How a winemaker is taking on Sicily's rural Mafia
LONDON, UK, 25 July 2017 (BBC) - From the terrace of his winery near the baroque town of Caltagirone in south-eastern Sicily, Cesare Nicodemo surveys his fields of ripening vines - a glass of his finest spumante in hand. |
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