A downside to good care
By Ken White From The Daily Journal Peninsular Remember those quarter-sized turtles in plastic bowls, adorned with a 2-inch green plastic palm tree, available for a pittance from neighborhood five-and-dimes? Millions were sold for decades. For many kids, these were…
Tourism Matters: Perhaps this represents an enormous opportunity
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean News Now Our British and many of our Continental European holidaymakers look like they are in for a little relief next year. The current annoying and described by HM Treasury as ‘rip-off ‘ surcharges that…
CRISPR’d human embryos doesn’t mean designer babies are around the corner
By Sarah Buhr From Techcrunch Earlier this week scientists stunned us with the announcement they’d genetically altered the first human embryos in the U.S. using CRISPR technology — but don’t hold your breath if you think the ability to make…
Recipe of the week
Recipe: Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas By Christine Gallary From The Kitchn Let’s talk about the fajita effect. It’s the restaurant moment when a server swaggers by with a sizzling platter of fajitas and all heads turn to the sound and…
A Cuban vaccine might some day turn lung cancer into a chronic disease
BY MIMI WHITEFIELD From Miami Herald The first patients in a clinical trial at Roswell Park Cancer Institute have begun receiving monthly doses of CIMAvax-EGF, a Cuban lung cancer vaccine that U.S. researchers say shows promise in preventing the recurrence…
Cayman sailors to compete at Optimist
Sailing: Optimist sailors competing at the Optimist British National and Open Championships at Weymouth and Portland From Dorset Echo UK More than 380 Optimist sailors from home and abroad are competing at the Volvo Gill Optimist British National and Open…
Portuguese state bank closes offshore branch in Macau [and Cayman Islands]
From MacauHub| Portugal The offshore branch of Portuguese state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) in Macau will be closed by the end of the year, the bank’s chief executive announced last Friday. Paulo Macedo said that besides the Macau…
Hundreds brave merciless heat to pay last sad tribute to a great man
By Desmond Allen Executive Editor – Special Assignment From Jamaica Observer A packed Hope United Church and the overflow tent at 221 Old Hope Road, St Andrew, said all that was necessary about how Dr Lascelles Sewell Lewis had touched…
Poloniex quits Washington State as new exchange rules become active
From bitcoin.com Back in April, Washington politicians finished piecing together and finalizing the regulations for bitcoin exchanges. Those guidelines and rules are now active. Lawmakers pushed Senate Bill 5031 through the House and Senate, and it was signed into existence…
Puzzles for Aug 1 2017 Number search/Sudoku/Word search/Crossword
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