Cayman Islands: Cayman Enterprise City partners with University College of the Cayman Islands to bolster STEM education
CEC will provide year round sponsorship for high school and college club students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – knowledge and skills for Cayman’s jobs of the future George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – Knowing that many…
How the digital revolution can fix scientific publishing and speed up discoveries
By Daniel Marovitz From Techcrunch Editor’s note: Daniel Marovitz is CEO of Faculty of 1000. Prior to that, he was the CEO and co-founder of buzzumi, a cloud, enterprise software company. Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing is big business….
T&T link in underwater drug trade
By Charles Kong Soo From Trinidad & Tobago Guardian The recent discovery of a cocaine-smuggling submarine in Guyana opens up the possibility that T&T, already a major transhipment for narcotics, could also be supplying bunkered diesel fuel for the illicit…
Smooth Sailin’: Time marches on, revolutions fade and politics bloom a new day
By Bob Tis From St Augustine Record It is super easy to ignore it, but we are citizens of the bigger world. And this world of ours, even this far north in Florida, is part of the Caribbean. Currently, there…
Denesh Ramdin’s century one of the best – Sir Richie
From Caribbean360 BASSETERRE, St Kitts, Friday August 29, 2014, CMC – Former West Indies stroke-maker Sir Richie Richardson has hailed Denesh Ramdin’s recent hundred against Bangladesh as one of the best ever one-day innings. Ramdin slammed 169 in the third…
Defrocked Catholic bishop accused of sex abuse could be tried in Dominican Republic
From Caribbean360 VATICAN CITY, Italy, Friday August 29, 2014 – Josef Wesolowski, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the Dominican Republic where he is accused of sexually abusing young boys, has lost his diplomatic immunity and could be tried by a…
T&T talks Caribbean labour mobility with IMF, trade union, and business reps
By Aleem Khan breaking news Trinidad & Tobago The T&T government will sit with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Caribbean’s private sector and trade union movement to discuss the free movement of labour in the Caribbean, at…
Appeals court silent on Texas Abortion Clinic Law
By Tony Mauro From The National Law Journal A Texas law imposing new regulations on abortion clinics fell into Labor Day limbo Monday after a federal appeals court made no response to an urgent plea from the state to let…
The whopper about global taxation
By Megan McArdle ,Bloomberg News From Stripes Jacob Levy, an American professor living in Montreal, made a point on Twitter last week that I wish more journalists would take to heart: If you’re writing about inversions, and you don’t prominently…
Building Brand Caribbean
By David Jessop THE view from EUROPE From Jamaica Gleaner Some years ago, on the table at which I was sitting in a Barbados hotel, there was a small brown packet of sugar. In large letters it identified its contents…
