Wajeeha Bilal
Cold wars and proxy warfare have always influenced the world politics as every country is in the race to win the superpower label that can project its dominating power and influence anywhere in the world. Perched on the canvas of influence, the modern-day conflicts between superpowers are fought in the fields of propaganda and subliminal messaging rather than battlefields. The last two decades have seen a spike in the cold war posturing between China and the US. The latter has ratcheted up the narrative in the world of social media, it has become obvious that the play is in motion, yet it requires online strategies and tactics to stay in the race.
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According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), one-third of fish stocks are overfished while another 60% cannot sustain increases in fishing, a problem exacerbated by illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. It doesn’t have to be this way, and a recent study suggests that States can better detect and curtail IUU fishing through improved sharing of fisheries information.
One reason overfishing is such a persistent problem is that fishing vessels frequently operate across international boundaries, and many governments lack the technological, operational, and institutional capacity they need to collect, analyze, and share information about what’s happening in their waters.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
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world is used to trailing Jamaica in sprinting, but we are late out of the starting blocks this time in the post-COVID-19 race. We will have to run a Olympic record or world-leading time if we are to grab a coveted spot on the medal podium.
Media reports out of Barbados last Thursday say that a major vaccination effort on that island had resulted in approximately 12.5 per cent of the population receiving their first COVID-19 vaccine shot within two weeks. Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, Guyana, as well as Trinidad and Tobago all started their vaccination programmes ahead of Jamaica.
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