Stories from 2 April 2021
Bert Rose, pioneer of Jamaica’s independence-era dance movement, dies at 81
"Mr. Rose’s contribution to nation-building has created the foundation for others to rise to their own greatness. He has left behind a legacy that will live on for generations."
Belarus banned from 2021 Eurovision contest for controversial song lyrics
The European Broadcasting Union found Belarus to be "in breach of the rules of the competition that ensure the Contest is not instrumentalized or brought into disrepute."
Latina organizer: The word we need is ‘Thrive’ not ‘Survive’
"I'd love to see a future in which women's leadership is centered, that the idea of leading 'with' and not 'over' becomes the norm and not the exception."
Beijing has rewritten Hong Kong's electoral rules. What will change?
It's a total overhaul of Hong Kong's representative democracy.
Connecting the dots: ‘Motus’ programme uses technology to track migrating birds in the Caribbean
Designed to enable conservation and ecological research by tracking movement, the Motus Wildlife Tracking System has hundreds of receiver stations and thousands of deployed nanotags on over 236 species, mostly birds.