Guyana to test persons entering country who exhibit Chikungunya symptoms
From Caribbean360 GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Wednesday May 14, 2014, CMC – Guyana says it will conduct tests on persons entering the country who may be experiencing signs of fever, head aches, pains to the joints and eyes as it seeks to…
KRyS Global has now an office in New York
KRyS Global, a corporate recovery and insolvency firm, opened last Monday (12) an office in New York. oThe firm said it was to complement their offshore presence in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas and Guernsey. KRyS Global…
Caribbean reacts to Boko Haram kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls
From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday May 13, 2014, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have condemned the kidnapping of hundreds of school children in Nigeria by members of the militant Islamic group, Boko Haram last month. They have joined the…
Worst dressed Met Gala 2014
Worst dressed Met Gala 2014: All the stars that failed on fashion’s biggest night By Michelle Persad From The Huffington Post The Met Gala is arguably the biggest night in fashion. Everyone who is everyone makes an appearance, but just…
Caribbean awards for pannist, scientist and activist
By Richard Lord From Guardian Media Recipients of the 2014 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards For Excellence, from left, Professor Liam Teague, Karen de Souza and Dr Richard Robertson, at the awards ceremony at the National Academy for The Performing…
CONCACAF news
CONCACAF pushing ahead with 2026 World Cup bid By Julian Linden (Reuters) – Aggrieved at missing out on the chance to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cups, the governing body for soccer in North and Central America and…
Custom controller lets disabled man dig into Minecraft using his eyebrows
By Emily Price From Engadget Alexander Kostov has spinal muscular atrophy, a disease that makes impossible for him to use most traditional game controllers. Rather than let that hold him back, he just got creative with the help of UK-based…
Operation Smile: Doctors remove 4-pound tumor from girl’s face
By Loren Grush From Fox News In 2011, Larry O’Reilly traveled to the Caribbean nation of Haiti, to aid those who had been devastated by the massive earthquake that had occurred a year earlier. During his stay, O’Reilly visited a…
Greenlight Re ‘walks away’ from some underpriced retro accounts
From ARTEMIS Greenlight Re, the Cayman Islands domiciled, hedge fund manager David Einhorn and Greenlight Capital, Inc. backed reinsurance firm, has pulled back from some of its catastrophe retrocession business this year citing low pricing and competition. Greenlight Re has…
Sammy’s sacking premature, says former WICB CEO
From Caribbean360 CASTRIES, St Lucia, Wednesday May 14, 2014, CMC – Former West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire has branded Darren Sammy’s axing as Test captain as “premature”. Hilaire, an often controversial and straight-talking administrator, told HTS Channel…
