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Jamaica Failing to Cope with Plastic Waste

Every time it rains heavily in Jamaica, a deluge of plastic bottles and bags, styrofoam and other garbage fills gullies and streams.

The effort combines conservation with memorials to the victims of COVID-19, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) highlighted this week.

Today’s featured band is Orquesta Kimbawe from Peru with the song “Mi morena” from the album “Salsa pura” (2007).

Today’s featured artist is Vanessa Zamora from Mexico with the song “Ayer” (2020). Send us your favorit songs, read how…

Today’s featured band is Inna de Yard from Jamaica with Winston McAnuff singing the song “Malcom X”, from the album “Inna De Yard” (2005).

Guatemalan security forces detained and violently reprimanded a migrant caravan made up of thousands of Hondurans this Sunday.

The four years of the chaotic and terrible Trump government adopted a posture that revived the worst of Cold War anti-communism.

Today’s featured artist is Willie Rosario from Puerto Rico with the song “Watusi Boogaloo” from the album “Two Too Much” (1968).

A caravan of hundreds of asylum seekers from Central America is expected to depart Honduras today with the hopes of reaching the USA.

The solution isn’t proclaiming abstention but rekindling civil resistance until the police state is suspended, and there is electoral reform.