MLK Concert Series take a hit
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life Once regarded as one of the best deals in Brooklyn, the annual Martin Luther King summer concert series returns with an abbreviated lineup that begins and end with only four performance dates. The…
Crazy Chinese Opera-Circus-Thing
From Stuck In Customs BEST CIRQUE DE SOLEIL? Which one is your favorite, or which ones have you seen? After a while, they all kind of blend together or me. I guess my favorite was “O” that I saw at…
Tiny sailors in the Caribbean!
By Becky Pemberton For Mailonline Meet the extraordinary water babies who have grown up travelling the world in a boat with their ocean-loving parents Canadian couple Genevieve and Eben Stolz decided to fulfil a dream and sail around the Caribbean…
Caribbean: CGTI says board governance more crucial than ever for business success
By Dee Lundy-Charles, CGTI The message was clear at the Caribbean Governance Training Institute’s second annual Directors’ Conference on Monday and Tuesday, July 6-7 in Saint Lucia: Organisations which choose to ignore today’s reality and fail to strengthen the effectiveness…
Creditor protections to make Bahamas ‘More Favourable’ to investors
By Neil Hartnell From tribune 242 International investors would “look more favourably” on the Bahamas if it had Chapter 11-style bankruptcy protection laws, a leading accountant yesterday suggesting Baha Mar’s woes had exposed legislative weaknesses. Raymond Winder, Deloitte & Touche…
‘Wizard of Oz’ super-fan offers $1 million for Dorothy’s stolen ruby slippers
By Kimberly Truong From Mashable IMAGE: Rubyslippers In this April 10, 1996 file photo, the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” are shown on display during a media tour of the “America’s…
Beggar’s mentality driving our need to be seen as poor
By Michael A. Dingwall Jamaica’s finance minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, is off to the Third International Conference for Financing and Development in Ethiopia. I understand that one of the issues that he will be looking at is the middle-income status…
Developer of Bahamas resort accuses Chinese of sabotage, fraud
By Tim McLaughlin From Reuters (Reuters) – The developer of the unfinished $3.5 billion Baha Mar mega resort in the Bahamas has accused China Construction America of cutting power to the work site, inflating expenses and trying to steal documents…
Olwomen story of week
15 best and beneficial home remedies for prickly heat By Cindy Smith From Olwomen As the summer season knocks at our doors, with hot temperatures, dehydration, scorching sunrays and tanned skins, we are forced to welcome prickly heat symptoms on…
Firefox now blocks all versions of Flash Player by default
By Liam Tung From ZD NET In the wake of two new zero-day flaws in Flash Player, Mozilla has disabled the plugin for all versions of its Firefox browser. Mozilla’s support team has made the dramatic but justified decision to…