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Sharks on a knife’s edge as Maldives mulls lifting 10-year fishing ban Eleven years ago, the Maldives created a 90,000-square-kilometer (34,750-square-mile) sanctuary that banned shark fishing, but fisheries minister Zaha Waheed said recently that the government may be planning to lift the ban. Conservationists say reopening shark fisheries in the Maldives would have devastating effects on shark populations and adversely affect tourism, which brings millions of dollars into the country each year. There are unofficial reports the Maldivian government will not be lifting the shark fishing ban...

by Kevin Bessler, The Center Square  | April 14, 2021 10:00 AM Print this article A bill that would ban physical restraint and timeout rooms in Illinois schools passed a Senate Education Committee on Tuesday. The legislation, Senate Bill 2296 sponsored by state Sen. Ann Gillespie, would require all schools to eliminate reliance on any kind of timeout room and face down physical restraint. In addition, schools could seclude students in unlocked spaces and use other types of restraints only when it is deemed there is a danger of serious physical harm to the s...

City Moves for 9 February: Who is switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? Despite the Covid-19 pandemic the City is still buzzing with hiring activity... just via Zoom and MS Teams City Moves provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. This week hosts movements over at Big Four auditor Deloitte, JP Morgan, HMRC and PE firm Dean Street. Meanwhile, green London housing looks to be a focus for 2021 with Public Sector Plc’s new hire. Deloitte strengthens Financial Ins...

Jamaica’s extraordinary musical legacy, from ska to dub, Bob Marley to The Bug.

/ 28 January 2021 1474 Views There is some archival footage, made for Danish TV in 1968, of Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos, popular music’s only Greek-Irish pairing of astral-baroque crusaders, collaborating together very naturally on piano and autoharp in Alex’s fourth floor flat on Elsham Road near Holland Park. It is an evocative piece of film, finding the pair at ease, and complementing one another’s strengths as musicians and songwriters. But within 12 months of the film’s making, Nirvana had been unceremoniously dumped by record label Isl...