Caribbean Bananas: organic production vs. disease control
By Julio Godoy From IPS Inter Press Service There is no single solution for black sigatoka, the most destructive and costly of banana diseases. The share of organic bananas within the country’s total banana exports rose from 32 to 58…
Annual Cayman Stingray Census shows general improvements
By Guy Harvey From Power Boat World The 2013 census of the North Sound stingray population was just completed this past week and the news is generally good. On day two of the census, I had a late start as…
Constitution drafting adviser set to join Rivers team
Sir Jeffrey Jowell, QC, the Cayman Islands Government’s former drafting adviser on the Cayman Islands 2009 Constitution Order, has filed an application for limited admission to the Cayman Islands bar to assist Education Minister Tara Rivers’s legal team. Ms Rivers…
Businessman’s sentence for theft almost halved on appeal
Derrick Thomas, a local businessman convicted by Justice Charles Quin last April for falsely obtaining approx. $100,000 from customers of his geothermal air conditioning company Geocomfort, won his appeal for the length of his jail term. Thomas conned at least…
E-Waste Systems launches Caribbean initiative
First Containers to Begin Flowing in Q3 for Processing in Ohio; Governments Approached to Solve the eWaste Issue in the Archipelago LONDON–(Marketwired – Jul 16, 2013) – E-Waste Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: EWSI) (‘EWSI’ or the “Company”), an electronic waste management…
Ambulances could be a problem for CONCACAF tournament
Bruce Blake, Cayman Islands Football Association Vice-President, at a press briefing last Thursday (11) said ambulances could be a problem. Blake is one of the members of the organising committee for the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association…
Mourant Ozannes 2013 Summer Interns
Over twenty-five secondary and tertiary students applied for Mourant Ozannes’ Internship Programme this year, and out of those, twelve were selected to experience the world of offshore law before returning to their studies in the Fall. The students are all…
Sea of clouds
by Jakob Wagner From Colossal Expansive cloud formations over the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas Photographer Jakob Wagner shoots wonderful wide-angle aerial photographs in addition to commercial work for Audi, Wired, and Jim Beam. My two favorite collections of work are…
Poor sleep may worsen heart woes in women, study finds
From US News Health But lack of shuteye doesn’t seem to have same effect on inflammation levels in men (HealthDay News) — Poor sleep appears to contribute to the progression of heart disease in women by raising their inflammation levels,…
Stop calling animals “It”
by Megan Drak, Care2 The English language has lots of rules, but the one I dislike the most is assigning the personal pronoun “it” when discussing animals. People are never referred to as “it.” People pronouns are he or she,…
