Boeing building mobile broadcasting satellite for Chinese market
By Peter B. de Selding From SpaceNews PARIS — Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems has begun construction of an L-band mobile broadcasting satellite for the Chinese market under a contract with a New York-based company acting on behalf of a…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Politics and leading women
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News Barbados FOR THE first time in any year since the dawn of political independence in the Caribbean region in the 1960s, a trio of leading women politicians – all current parliamentarians – find themselves on the…
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The Nassau Accord Ceremony & Soweto Gospel Choir were the Caribbean Muzik Festival’s highest notes
By Stacy-Ann Ellis From VIBE In the midst of the celebration that was the 2015 Caribbean Muzik Festival based in the Bahamas, organizers found a seamless way to merge fun and liveliness with more serious, celebratory matters. Last Thursday (Oct….
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Gymnast Lloyd Morgan, Cayman Islands
From Gymnastics Coaching.com PUBLISHED BY coach Rick Career gymnastics coach from Calgary, Canada. I spoke to the coach of Lloyd Morgan from Cayman Islands. She’s 2nd last on the list of AA competitors from the preliminary competition. Motions Unlimited (http://www.motionsunlimited.com) is her home club…
Mangroves enhance reef fish abundance at the Caribbean regional scale
By Joseph E. Serafy ,Geoffrey S. Shideler, Rafael J. Araújo, Ivan Nagelkerken Published: November 4, 2015 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142022 Abstract Several studies conducted at the scale of islands, or small sections of continental coastlines, have suggested that mangrove habitats serve to enhance fish abundances…
Hunt for billions invested by 1MDB points to Australia
By Daniel Stacey in Sydney, Bradley Hope in New York and Tom Wright in Hong Kong From Wall Street Journal The six-year global hunt for billions of dollars invested by a Malaysian development fund has run through Saudi Arabia and the Cayman…
Gadget of the week
Researchers are helping robots avoid expensive face plants By Steve Dent From engadget Why are robot tumbles comedy gold? Unlike humans, they make no effort to protect themselves, resulting in flailing, extra hard falls (bottom). But the high-g impacts are…
Julian Assange can’t leave London embassy to get an MRI
By Blathnaid Healy From Mashable LONDON — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange needs an MRI for pain in his shoulder, but if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he’s been taking refuge since 2012, he’ll be arrested. The Ecuadorian…
DEA head sides with FBI director, thinks ‘Ferguson effect’ is real
By Juana Summers From Mashable The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday that he agrees with FBI Director James Comey that additional scrutiny of law enforcement in the past year could have made some police officers less aggressive,…
California police use these biometric scanners
By John Fingas From engadget Police are increasingly turning to biometric tech in the field. It’s supposed to help cops verify the identity of suspects, but there’s a real concern that they could abuse this to get personal details on…
