YCLA where are they?
Where Are The 2015 YCLA Finalists Now? While the focus often seems to be on the gala and live broadcast of the awards event, the Young Caymanian Leadership Foundation is a year round initiative. In truth, each cohort of finalists…
Are Christians who support Ralph Gonsalves abandoning their faith?
By Johannes King The popularity of Ralph Gonsalves among self-identified Christians must lead national figures in Vincentian Christianity to question whether large swaths of the church even know what their faith teaches, and how it applies to public and political…
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US: Exhibit explores slavery’s ties to middletown commerce in 1700s, 1800s
By Shawn R. Beals From hartford Courant Connecticut’s complicated history as a Northern state that advocated freedom yet made excessive profits off slave labor is the subject of a new exhibit at the Middlesex County Historical Society. “A Vanished Port: Middletown…
Caribbean drug routes on the move
From GIT In recent years, cocaine and other illegal drug trafficking has increased in the Caribbean and around the world, due to the ‘balloon effect’ of drug cartels intending to get their products to the United States and Europe. In…
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Trini inventor finds success on Planting Seeds
From T&T Guardian Kevan Sinanan walked onto the set of Planting Seeds anxiously clenching an invention he had engineered in his garage, a gadget made to match keys to their respective locks faster. He stood in position, took a breath,…
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New York: Despite more police, West Indian Day events marred by deaths
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS From New York Times NEW YORK — Revelers in costumes danced as the sounds of steel drums filled the air Monday at the city’s annual West Indian Day Parade, but despite an expanded police presence, violence…
Panama Papers: IT dept sends 200 info exchange requests
From Money Control The countries to which these references have been made include the United States, the UK, Singapore, nations in the Caribbean islands, Switzerland, British Virgin Islands and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among others. Widening its probe in…
Cayman Islands Premier’s speech to WiMAC
Welcome to Women in Maritime Association Caribbean conference By Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP, MLA 8:30 a.m., Monday, 5 September, 2016 Marriott Hotel, Grand Cayman (Protocol) Good morning, On behalf of the Government and the Cayman Islands people it…
Destination of the week
Punta Cana Named #1 Destination in the Caribbean in 2016 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards Millions of reviewers agree – Punta Cana is the Caribbean’s must-visit destination DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PRNewswire/ — The results are in and we are proud to announce…
Mother Teresa is now Saint Teresa
By Juliet Perry, Tim Hume and Livia Borghese, CNN From NewsOK Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping India’s poor, has been declared a saint in a canonization Mass held by Pope Francis in the Vatican….
