Latin America [and Caribbean] scores lowest on security
by Jan Sonnenschein From Gallup World Venezuelans report lowest security levels worldwide WASHINGTON, D.C. — Residents of Latin America and the Caribbean were the least likely among all global regions last year to feel secure in their communities. In 2013,…
Scientists build a robot arm that catches objects in the blink of an eye
By Jon Fingas From engadget Humans are good at catching fast-moving objects — just ask any baseball fan. Robots typically lag behind, however, which is why the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has developed a robot arm with the…
The “Website Defacement” Cyber threat to the Caribbean
By James Austin Bynoe, August 16th, 2014 — In the last year there has been a significant increase in the number of cyber related criminal activity in the Caribbean. In recent days the unauthorized changes made to a key regional…
Caribbean coral catastrophe
From Frontier A recent report describing a three year collaboration between the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) revealed that the majority of the Caribbean’s…
Apple to expand in the Caribbean
From Datacenter Dynamic The Unique Infrastructure Group is said to be constructing a new data center for Apple on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao according to a post by Among Tech. The data center is said to be part…
Cayman Islands lionfish cull collects nearly 252 lbs of predators
The Cayman United Lionfish League’s cull #12 caught 251.70 lbs of the invasive predators that are causing havoc in our waters. That equates to 579 lionfish. 60 cullers on 13 teams were in action over the weekend but the total…
Higgs & Johnson expands Corporate Commercial department in Cayman Islands
On 7th August, 2014 Rob Humphries was admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands by the Honourable Mr. Justice Charles Quin QC on the application of Higgs & Johnson, Attorneys-at-Law. The admission application was made by Partner,…
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,…
Asteroid headed for Earth in 2880 is really just a clump of rubble
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.Com Contributor for Space.com From Mashable An asteroid on NASA’s list of potential impact threats to the Earth is actually a pile of loosely connected rubble held together by forces weaker than the weight of a…
How the world’s super-rich like to travel
From Daily Mail UK Russian billionaires love Croatia, while the Chinese gamble in Las Vegas and both splash out on private yachts they barely use Middle Eastern billionaires prefer to spend their summers in the Mediterranean, while Russians head to…
