Sugar Association of the Caribbean convenes: Industry Leaders to look at future of Sugar with end to EU Market Looming
JOINT PRESS RELEASE BY SUGAR ASSOCIATION OF THE CARIBBEAN AND THE CARIBBEAN COUNCIL For immediate release (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The EU’s quota management for sugar will end on 30 September 2017 and is expected to lead to…
Evidence for pre-Columbian tsunamis in the Caribbean?
By David Jacobson, From Temblor In a journal article published earlier this week, researchers at the University of Washington, USGS, and several other institutions outlined evidence of extreme waves in the British Virgin Islands. The evidence for this coastal inundation…
Cartoon of the Week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Bad agreement for the Caribbean
By Grenville Phillips II From Barbados Today Ambassador Daniela Tramacere, head of the European Union delegation to the region, has recently publicly challenged my assessment of the region’s trade agreement with the EU. The trade agreement is called the Economic…
A Russian space agency official was suspiciously stabbed to death in prison
By Veronika Bondarenko From Business Insider Russian authorities are investigating the suspicious prison death of a former top space agency official charged with embezzlement. Vladimir Evdokimov, a former top director at Russia’s national space agency Roscosmos, was found dead with stab wounds…
Puzzles for w/e Mar 24-26 Number search/Sudoku/Word search/Crossword
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Cayman Islands Governor term to be extended
From The Governor’s Office The Governor’s Office has announced that Her Excellency the Governor Helen Kilpatrick will be extending her appointment in the Cayman Islands until March 2018. The extension was made at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
Cayman Islands: Flags Lowered for London Victims Flags at the Government Administration Building in Elgin Avenue were lowered to half-mast today (Thursday, 23 March 2017) as a mark of respect for the victims of a terror attack in London, U.K….
23 Mar 2017 Weather in Cayman
Mar 23 Thursdar Synopsis Moderate northeasterly winds and seas will continue across the Cayman area for the next 24 hours as a high pressure system lingers over the Eastern US. Radar images show isolated showers mainly over Grand Cayman moving…