Phillips calls for more int’l support for Caribbean region
From Jamaica Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica — Finance and Planning Minister, Dr Peter Phillips, has cited the need for a “new agenda” of support for Jamaica and other Caribbean states by key international stakeholders. Dr Phillips said that the support is…
Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry
From BBC Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have formally converted their civil partnership to a marriage – with the musician documenting the day on the Instagram website. The couple have been hosting a ceremony at their Windsor…
Australia Cairns: Mother charged with eight murders
From BBC The killings took place at a house in the Cairns district of Manoora Mersane Warria, 37, was charged while in hospital where she is being treated under guard for self-inflicted knife wounds, police say. Post-mortem examinations are being…
Re-engagement with Cuba: The strategic calculus
By R. Evan Ellis From War on the Rocks Yesterday’s (17) decision by President Obama to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba will be highly controversial domestically, but popular internationally. The normalization of ties between these two foes has potential to…
Sony just set a terrible precedent, one that will embolden every hacker on the planet and haunt corporations for years
By Steve Kovach From Business Insider Sony blew it Wednesday by pulling “The Interview” from theaters without coming up with an alternative way to distribute the movie. There was a big opportunity to at least announce that the “The Interview”…
Burglary arrest and Cayman Islands Operation Dasher
From RCIPS Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:06 AM Burglary Arrest Just after 5:00am Friday 19th December 2014, officers from George Town Police Station received a report via 911 of a burglary in progress at a bar on Seymour Road, George…
Car flips over on Dart West Bay Bypass
We have no details about this accident but a car flipped over today (21) on the Dart West Bay Bypass.. The photographs were sent to us by a reader giving us the credit of Rosie McNamee. When we obtain details…
The Publisher speaks: Cuba off the tourist track
Now that relations between Cuba and the USA are to be normalised I thought this poem is appropriate. I wrote this a few years ago when I went to Cuba with a church group of mainly other women and it was…
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Cayman Islands man pleads guilty in boating incident Richard Morrison Stein pleaded guilty to causing damage to another vessel, Miss Michelle, in the Cayman Islands Summary Court last Tuesday (16). Stein admitted he was navigating the vessel, The Flying Scotsman,…