Cayman Islands to host 2019 CARIFTA Games – win 47 swimming and 6 track & field medals
Cayman Islands track and field team won six medals that included three GOLD! Cayman were sixth overall in the track and field medal count. In the swimming – Cayman Islands girls reigned victorious with 408 points followed by Trinidad and…
Airbnb meets with Caribbean government reps
From Travel Weekly The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and government representatives from eight member countries met with Airbnb officials to discuss Airbnb’s growing presence in the region and to address areas of mutual cooperation as outlined in an agreement signed…
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Five obstacles to a more productive Caribbean
By DR SYLVIA DOHNERT From Nation News Barbados CARIBBEAN ECONOMIES HAVE have hardly grown in the last 30 years. The last significant growth was in the 1980s when tourism and banana production expanded, but has since declined due to the…
As global warming continues, scientists prep tests to artificially cool the planet
By ANDREW FREEDMAN From Mashable With the U.S. backsliding on climate progress under President Donald Trump, and scientists issuing increasingly dire warnings about the quickening pace and sweeping impacts of global warming, the possibility that we can somehow engineer our…
Greenlight Capital Re to Release First Quarter 2017 Results
April 20, 2017 08:30 ET | Source: Greenlight Capital Re GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, April 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLRE), a specialist property and casualty reinsurer based in the Cayman Islands and Ireland, today announced…
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI celebrates 90th birthday with beer, party at Vatican
From WN.COM Benedict XVI, who resigned as pontiff in 2013, has celebrated his 90th birthday with a mug of beer and the company of visitors from his native Bavaria in Germany, The Associated Press reported. Photos by the Vatican newspaper…
Icebergs floating by seaside town
Breathtaking photos show massive icebergs floating by a seaside town By Mark Abadi From Business Insider Life is fairly simple for the 500-or-so residents of Ferryland, on Canada’s east coast. They work. They eat. They sleep. And sometimes, they welcome…
Palladium Hotel Group targets growth in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America and Europe
Palladium Hotel Group Development Update Palladium Hotel Group plans to expand by implementing a hotel management model in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America and Europe in addition to its current ownership model. In 2016, the company achieved a turnover of…
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,…
JAMAICA: More than 50% of electricity demand to be supplied by renewables
By Douglas McIntosh From JIS Story Highlights: The Government is projecting that within two years, more than half of Jamaica’s electricity demand, totalling nearly 700 megawatts will be generated from renewable sources. According to Finance and Public Service Minister, Hon….
