MHCapital Exec leads $15M refinancing for Caribbean resort
By Samantha Joseph, From Daily Business Review A West Palm Beach executive helped extend a capital markets-based real estate lender’s international reach with a $15.2 million loan to a hotel operator in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Don Stevens, who leads…
Appeal launched for greater focus on the arts In Caribbean’s institutions of higher learning
From PRIDE BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Apr. 5, (CMC) – Tertiary level educators across the Caribbean have launched an appeal for greater focus on developing Arts programs at the region’s institutions of higher learning. They made the call at the opening of…
Mysterious fairy circles
Mysterious fairy circles discovered in Australian outback By Jenni Ryall From Mashable A mysterious landscape phenomenon known as fairy circles has been found in the Australian outback. The fairy circles are characterised by a hexagonal organisation of soil gaps between…
Olwomen story of the week
Why you should try putting butter in your coffee By Jenny Smith Butter coffee or as some put it ‘Bullet proof coffee’ is an upgraded version of the black coffee which is blended along with grass fed butter and Brain…
airbnb and Caribbean Tourism – EQUALISER, DESTABILIZER or PARTNER?
From The Voice BEYOND the impact of the Zika virus, the opening of Cuba to U.S. travellers and the warnings of an economic slowdown by the International Monetary Fund and others, the Caribbean faces in Airbnb, a phenomena that poses…
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‘Panama Papers’ to be analyzed at OffshoreAlert Conference
The head of the organization that co-ordinated the biggest records leak in financial history – known as ‘The Panama Papers’ – will talk about the project at next month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in Miami Beach. Gerard Ryle, of the International Consortium…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Rodney’s death and old Guyanese politics
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News THIS COMING Friday will mark two months since the submission to the Guyana Government of an officially requested report by a three-member Commission of inquiry into the ghastly bombing death of the internationally famous…
Fishing for the future of Caribbean coral reefs
By University of Queensland From The Bahamas Weekly New science-based fishery regulations are needed if coral reefs are to have a future in the face of climate change. The study shows that Caribbean coral reefs are experiencing mounting pressure from…
Serpell tops again
Cayman Islands: Serpell Tops Again By Eve van den Bol From Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation Polly Serpell, riding her sister’s horse, Sunday’s Edition, came out the winner of Event #2 of the Cayman leg of the three-part FEI World Jumping…
Advancing environmental governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
In less than 24 hours negotiators from 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will gather in Montevideo, Uruguay for the 3rd Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice…
