Cayman Islands children’s arts festival gets underway
NCFA Music Preliminaries Underway Judges began the process of weighing musical performances by the Cayman Islands’ brightest young talent on Thursday 23 April 2015. The National Children’s Festival of the Arts (NCFA) music preliminaries got underway on Thursday morning at…
Cayman Islands Adventists Footprints of Hope campaign results in 68 baptisms
The Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has been hosting its Footprints of Hope evangelistic campaign since April 3 at the Lions Centre in George Town. Hundreds of people are visiting the Centre each night to hear televangelist pastor Glen…
Perfect World enters into definitive agreement for going private transaction
BEIJING, April 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD) (“Perfect World” or the “Company”), a leading online game developer and operator based in China, today announced that it has entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger…
Can this [Cayman Islands] company help save California from its water crisis?
By Reuben Brewer From the Motley Fool California is mired in a severe drought, and it’s looking at all the alternatives, including this water specialist’s technology. The state of California has instituted water controls at an alarming pace, realizing its…
Diaz, Gonzalez spike Cayman Islands gold
From NORCECA GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, April 26, 2015 – Cuban pair, Nivaldo Diaz and Sergio Gonzalez made a winning start to the 2015 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit with a rather surprising easing win over Puerto Ricans, Erik Haddock and…
Devaluation of Barbados dollar will not support economic growth – study
From CARIBBEAN360 Barbados-Dollars-740 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A study undertaken by the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) is supporting arguments that devaluation of currencies will not improve price competitiveness in very small open economies like those in the Caribbean. “In…
Courting whistleblowers, SEC targets KBR secrecy pacts
By Scott Flaherty, From The Litigation Daily The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday fined technology and engineering company KBR Inc. over confidentiality agreements that, the agency claims, could have silenced potential whistleblowers. In a first-of-its-kind enforcement action, the…
If Greece falls, no one wants their prints on the murder weapon
From Newsmax “We’re going bust.” “No, you’re not.” “You’re strangling us.” “No we’re not.” “You owe us for World War Two.” “We gave already.” The game of chicken between Greece and its international creditors is turning into a vicious blame…
Destination of the week
72 hours in Saba, the Caribbean’s “Unspoiled Queen” By Will Mcgough From Gear Patrol The trip to Saba gets interesting before you even set foot on its soil. Its tiny airport sits on a plateau between a jagged coastline and…
New Caribbean talk show premiering April 29
New Caribbean talk show produced in Europe targeting ambitious Caribbean women (Premiering on Tempo April 29th) Premiering on the 29th of April! Girls ‘N Cocktails, a talkshow for the ambitious Caribbean woman, will premiere on Tempo networks on the 29th…