Cayman Islands’ community unites for Childhood Cancer Research
George Town, Grand Cayman, September 23, 2017 More than 1000 people packed The Wicket Bar in Cricket Square on Friday evening for the 5th annual Hannah’s Heroes Big Shave to raise funds for the St Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest private…
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Americans need to join together to help all islands affected by hurricanes
From The Philadelphia Tribune It is as if the recent hurricanes came through and deliberately leveled each of the small islands methodically, one by one. Many of us cannot begin to imagine the kind of emotion we would experience if…
GSTC annual meet
GSTC Attracts Global Participation to Address Sustainable Destinations By David Randle, Contributor Director Sustainable Tourism USF Patel College of Globals Sustainability & President & CEO of the WHALE Center From Huffington Post The GSTC (Global Sustainable Tourism Council) just completed…
Dominica: A Caribbean island rebuilds “from zero”
By Ben Parker From Irin News In a rare live-blog from the prime minister of a country grappling with disaster, Dominica’s Roosevelt Skerrit described his own roof being torn off by Hurricane Maria. He has now confirmed 25 deaths and…
Falling jet wing panel damages car in Japan
From BBC A car was seriously damaged when part of an aeroplane’s wing landed on it in the Japanese city of Osaka. The piece, which weighed more than 4kg (9lb), fell from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plane shortly after…
Taxing digital economy players a daunting task?
By Supriya Surendran From The Edge Financial Daily KUALA LUMPUR: The two tax captains of Malaysia — Inland Revenue Board (IRB) chief executive officer Datuk Sabin Samitah and Royal Malaysian Customs Department director-general Datuk Seri Subromaniam Tholasy — both shared…
Liberty University sends a team of volunteers to the Caribbean
By Siobhan McGirl From WDBJ7 CBS LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ7) You can tell a lot about where a person is going from what they pack in their bag. “Well definitely my work boots,” said one student as she rummaged through her…
CAST Performance In Shakespeare’s Nightclub [Now performing here in Cayman islands]
By Bailey Kight From The Bottom Line When people hear the name Shakespeare, they tend to think of old-fashioned clothing and traditional plays. The group with the Cambridge University American Stage Tour (CAST) had a completely different take on Shakespeare….
Recipe of the week
Recipe: Butter-Roasted Sweet Potatoes By Meghan Splawn From The Kitchn You’ve had roasted sweet potatoes before, so you’ve had them all, right? I used to think the exact same thing until I learned a technique for butter-roasting thick slices of…
At UN, Cuba urges relief to assist storm-hit Caribbean; cites ‘setback’ in bilateral relations with US
From UN news Centre 22 September 2017 – In the wake of successive hurricanes Irma and Maria, which tore through the Caribbean and left communities in desperate conditions, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla urged the international community to “give…