Directors Accreditation Course
The Cayman Islands Directors Association (CIDA) is pleased to once again facilitate the Directors Accreditation Course (DEAP), being offered this year on 10, 11 and 12 September 2014. DEAP is a sharply focused programme delivering critical content in four areas,…
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,…
Dragon Shoes by Saigon Socialite
From Daily Designer Shoes meet handmade wood carving. This type of wood carving would more commonly be seen to decorate pagodas or houses in Vietnam or China, but this adaptation on shoes looks totally gorgeous. This project was patiently…
Red wine health benefits ‘overhyped’
By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Red wine contains resveratrol, but the amount varies with grape variety Red wine may not be as good for you as hoped, say scientists who have studied the drink’s ingredient that is…
Celebrating Caribbean Women:“Children gravitate to me as a nurturer,” says Donna Hadaway Smith
By Nedburn Thaffe From mni alive “I started out wanting to be an air hostess. I wrote one of those essays at school in my primary five years, saying I would like to become an air hostess. My teacher looked…
Important Tourism Satellite Account Workshop gets underway in Kingston
From eTN Clobal Travel News KINGSTON, Jamaica – A TSA workshop got underway today (September 3) at the Courtleigh Hotel, New Kingston, under the theme: “Establishing a Sustainable Synergy Between Technological Best Practices and Tourism Satellite Accounts.” It is being…
Caribbean Volunteers At War – Review by Mark Barnes
From War History Online It was the Friday of another Longest Week and I was ploughing through the mud at the swampy finale to the War & Peace Show’s life at the Beltring Hop Farm when I saw a man…
Regional Mexican cuisine: Old world meets new in Veracruz
By Chris E. Crowley From Serious Eats Separated from inland Mexico by the Sierra Madre mountains, Veracruz is a place of contrasts, where 500 miles of wet, tropical coastline bleed into snow-capped mountains. Zarela Martinez, the cookbook author credited with…
Haitian activist sent before criminal court on murder charges
By Joseph Guyler Delva From Haitian-Caribbean News Network PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) – Haitian investigating Judge Lamarre Belizaire issued on Wednesday a ruling in the case of the murder, in October 2010, of student Frantzy Duverseau, sending activist André Michel, and…
CHICOS Program to include providing capital, all-inclusive resorts and sustainable hotels
Discussion panels and workshops at the Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference & Operations Summit (CHICOS) will focus on key subjects impacting the investment climate in the Caribbean including available capital, mixed-use development and other investment opportunities in the region. CHICOS is…
