NEDD and Development Bank conduct successful financial management workshop
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, June 17th 2013 – The Caribbean Development Bank-sponsored four-day national workshop on ‘Financial Management Techniques for Macro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises’ held last week at the Ocean Terrace Inn and attended by 25 participants has been hailed…
Royal Gazette: Cayman Islands could eject 2,000 work permit holders
By Rebecca Zuill Approximately 2,000 foreigners face expulsion from the Cayman Islands in October when their work visas expire, Bloomberg reports. Cayman’s new Premier Alden McLaughlin has made it “quite clear” to his immigration department that he wants to find…
Magellan agrees financial advisory role with Endeavour Financial
Magellan agrees financial advisory role with Endeavour Financial for project financing at Coringa VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, (Menafn – Market wired via COMTEX) –Magellan Minerals Ltd. (otcqx: MAGNF)(“Magellan”) is pleased to announce that it has engaged Endeavour Financial Limited (Cayman) (“Endeavour”)…
Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II
Crowds gathered today (Saturday, 15 June 2013) in front of the Legislative Assembly to witness a colourful public ceremony that marked the Cayman Islands official observance of the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The ceremony began with Acting…
‘Tailing’ spiny lobster larvae to protect them
New tools track planktonic larvae, offer possible solutions to safeguard this $1 billion industry MIAMI –The commercial value of spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) in the Caribbean reaches $1 billion annually, thus making it one of the most valuable fisheries in…
Art auction to help GT Primary School performing arts centre
The New Self-Help Community Foundation is hosting an auction of three works of art that are on display at A.L. Thompson’s hardware store in George Town. Proceeds from the sale will go toward the establishment of a performing arts centre…
Ambrx’s Antibody Drug Conjugate for breast cancer
Ambrx and Zhejiang Medicine Co. Ltd. Form Collaboration to Develop and Commercialize Ambrx’s Antibody Drug Conjugate for Breast Cancer Published: June 16, 2013 By WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. SAN DIEGO AND SHANGHAI, JUNE 16, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Ambrx and…
A Weekend of ‘Assemblage’ events at NG
Next Friday and Saturday the Cayman Islands National Gallery (NG) is hosting a range of events that relate to the Art of Assemblage exhibition. Come and join us and if you feel inspired by the exhibition, you can get creative…
20 Foods You Should Just Never Eat
Eric Steinma from Care2 A few months back, a website called Trueactivist.com (a sort of news aggregator with an activist flavor) published a list of nine foods you should never eat again if you care at all about your long-term…
12 Latin American, Caribbean countries honored by UN for fighting hunger
From ticio times Panama’s Martinelli: “Reducing child malnutrition by half means we still have the other half to go.” At a ceremony in Rome on Sunday, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General José Graziano da Silva recognized…
