Guyana confirms toddler, woman are first reported cases of chikungunya virus
From Caribbean360 GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Wednesday May 28, 2014, CMC – Guyana has confirmed two cases of the chikungunya virus and health officials said they would step up their vector control exercise in the areas where the cases had been…
School renamed for Former Speaker Hon. Edna Moyle
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin joined the Minister of Education and others Tuesday night in renaming the primary school in North Side as the Edna M. Moyle Primary School. He said the name change was fitting…
Google unveils self-driving car prototype
By Lance Ulanoff From Mashable RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Google has been building self-driving cars for years, but what we’ve seen so far has always been retrofits of existing cars — until now. The search giant unveiled on Tuesday…
Battle takes shape over $324 Million ‘No Poach’ Deal
By Marisa Kendall, The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Devine, former named plaintiff in the “no poach” antitrust suit, has enlisted Girard Gibbs in his fight against the settlement made public this week. The tentative $324.5 million pact, which frees…
Eric Morecambe was our hero: How the comedy legend influenced our best-loved entertainers
By: Simon Edge From Daily Express UK To mark the 30th anniversary of Eric Morecambe’s death we look at how he influenced some of Britain’s favourite entertainers. ANT AND DEC The inseparable presenters are a double act in the…
Will Jamaica have to choose? USA or China?
By Ronald Mason From Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica, into its 51st year of Independence, continues to have a footprint on world affairs that is significantly magnified. This island of less than three million total population has had a positive history of…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Regional employment challenged by low economic growth – report
From Caribbean360 SANTIAGO, Chile, Tuesday May 27, 2014, CMC – A new report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) says low economic growth in 2014 could affect employment in…
Chinese Internet giant Tencent fired a guy just for talking to John Kerry
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE From Business Insider Beijing tightly censors the Internet, banning websites including Facebook and Twitter with a system labelled the “Great Firewall of China”, and ordering domestic Internet firms to delete content that government officials deem “sensitive”. Zhang’s…
China’s dangerous cyber army has a firm grip on Guyana, the rest of the Caribbean
By Dennis Adonis From Epoch Times The Caricom related nations of Guyana and Jamaica are probably the Caribbean’s leading benefactors of Chinese investments, and arguably the region’s principal users of mostly counterfeit technology out of Beijing. But few would realize…
