What if this Happened in Barbados?

Pipeline fire and oil spill in China
One of our long-time readers sent us a link to the Boston Globe article Oil Spill in Dalian, China, and posed the question…
“What if a similar disaster happened at our oil terminal? It could!
What resources would we have? What would be the impact on our main industry, tourism?
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Award-winning Guyanese economist and educator dies at 88

NEW YORK, USA -- Dr Rawle Farley, an award-winning economist and educator, died on Saturday, November 6. He was 88 years old, and passed away at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, NY.

Farley had been a professor of economics at the State University of New York, College at Brockport since 1966. He was the founder and first chairperson of the Department of Economics at SUNY Brockport, and was named Professor Emeritus in 1995.
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