Dengue mosquito population in Grand Cayman suppressed by 80%
Oxitec and MRCU Report 80% Suppression of a Dengue Mosquito Population in Grand Cayman by Release of Engineered Sterile Male Mosquitoes – Nature Biotechnology Releases of Oxitec’s genetically modified mosquitoes achieved an 80% reduction of a local mosquito population in…
Cayman Islands is centre stage in cleantechnica.com
Clean (or Cleaner) Cars Stanford’s 2012-2013 Solar Car Project Is Getting Underway: The Stanford Solar Car Project team is looking for new recruits. In case you weren’t aware, the team “designs, builds, and races solar cars to compete in the…
Romney is Right – the Cayman Islands are not a Tax Haven
From Cayman Finance The newest slant in the American media and blogosphere is to claim to be a “fact checker,” while inserting a partisan view of reality in the news. Rating political candidates’ statements for truthfulness is worthwhile, but if…
What they are saying about us … and this time it’s true
Grand Cayman for the Adventure Seeker The Cayman Islands offer outstanding kite surfing and kayaking for non-divers From WestJet’s upmagazine As the plane banks steeply over Grand Cayman it delivers its calling card—a natural wonder. Down below is a 35-kilometre-long…
The Editor Speaks: Television: – seeing is believing
I was on CITN-Cayman27 television’s show “Daybreak’ yesterday (10) as it was their 20th anniversary and I was asked what was the single most significant moment in my fifteen years there that I thought had made the most impact on…
GoDaddy hosted websites down ‘in possible hack attack’.
Note: Godaddy is the DNS registrar of ieyenews.com but our site is hosted on Rackspace Cloud and has not been affected. Thousands of websites hosted by one of the world’s biggest internet domain registrars and web hosts, GoDaddy, were reported…
Maples and Calder Grants Six Non-Legal Scholarships
Maples and Calder (“Maples“) announced today that it has granted its 2012 non-legal scholarships to Abigail Bush, Briana Bergstrom, Chevis Dilbert, Jovonnie Anglin, Lloyd Barker and Jordan Ebanks. Henry Smith, Global Managing Partner at Maples said, “In addition to the…
Tethys Petroleum Limited commences drilling operations in Kazakhstan
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS — (09/10/12 — Tethys Petroleum Limited (“Tethys” or “the Company”) (TSX:TPL) (LSE:TPL) today is pleased to announce the commencement of drilling operations at the AKD07 appraisal/exploration well in Kazakhstan, and the commencement of further seismic acquisition…
[Grand Cayman is 5th busiest Caribbean Cruise Port] but Cruise ships are docking in more exotic Caribbean ports of call
by Ellen Creager • Detroit Free Press There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Cayman Islands, Cozumel or the Bahamas. But once you’ve seen them, it’s time to branch out. Cruise lines are experimenting with all kinds of interesting…
Police Officer Helps Ducklings Cross Freeway
Here’s a feel-good story for your afternoon: a police officer in Washington State spotted a mother duck and her young ducklings trying to cross SR-512 during the morning rush hour. In order to ensure that they crossed safely, he temporarily…
