99L poised to become Tropical Storm Hermine
By: Bob Henson and Jeff Masters , 3:57 PM GMT on August 24, 2016 From Weather Underground Invest 99L is already bringing winds of tropical storm force to the northern Lesser Antilles Islands, and it could become a tropical storm…
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Jamaicans denied bail for robbery in Cayman Islands From RJR News Two Jamaicans charged with robbing a money transfer business in the Cayman Islands earlier this month were denied bail on Monday. The court heard that Paul Martin, 28,…
USD33 m to finance climate change resilient infrastructure in the Caribbean
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- August 24, 2016 – Officials from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed an agreement to provide USD33,000,000 towards financing sustainable infrastructure projects in the Caribbean region. At least 50 percent…
Cayman Islands: West Bay gets new Elections Registering Officer
Elections Office veteran of 20 years, Ms Darlene Owens-Elliott has handed over as West Bay Registering Officer to Ms Bethany Powery-Ebanks. The new Registering Officer Ms Powery-Ebanks can be reached at 516-4402. At the handover at Elections Office in Smith…
The Editor speaks: You MUST come forward
There are persons in this community who know, or suspect, who the perpetrators are of the heinous sexual attack on two horses at the Equestrian Centre off Linford Pierson Highway. Ten days ago a person or persons broke into the…
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Cayman Islands to host Destination Caribbean 2017
From Meetings and Conventions Meetings & Conventions’ parent company, Northstar Travel Group, will hold next year’s Destination Caribbean event at the Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa in Grand Cayman. The announcement was made on the…
Third Outbreak of Zika virus found in Florida
By Maureen Foody From WN.com Florida has another possible outbreak of the Zika virus on the Gulf Coast in Pinellas County according to NBC News. At least one person has been infected locally near St. Petersburg as the state also reported…
CCRIF makes US$260,000 payout to Belize in face of Hurricane Earl
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands — CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) paid US$261,073 to the Government of Belize under its excess rainfall insurance policy last Thursday, two weeks after heavy rains brought by Hurricane Earl drenched the…
A wave of activist hedge funds are shaking up Japan
By Jess Delaney, Institutional Investor From Business Insider For decades Japan Inc. has frustrated the efforts of just about every foreign shareholder activist who has tried to storm its gates. Beginning with T. Boone Pickens’s 1989 bid to get seats on…
Catholic Order disowns honours awards to Caribbean leaders
From Caribbean News Now MADRID, Spain — In a press statement on Saturday, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, a Catholic institution based in Spain, disowned what it described as the purported exchanges of decorations between the Constantinian…
