Pamela Ebanks-Small named Cayman Islands Chamber Volunteer of the Year
From Chamber of Commerce’s Membership Appreciation & Elections, held last evening [Wed 21] Pamela Ebanks-Small was recognized as the Chamber’s Volunteer of the Year for 2018 at the Membership Appreciation and Elections held at the Wharf Restaurant yesterday (Wed, 21 November,…
The Editor speaks: The most intrusive surveillance regime of any democracy
In case you missed it I have republished in full a comment by “GJ” to my recent Editorial “Drops and pops” November 21, 2018 at 8:33 am I concur but there are worse popups: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/652/made The Investigative Powers Act ……
Blackstone’s Guide to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, by Simon McKay
From ICLR The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) is the latest step in bringing the hitherto unknown surveillance activities of the State into the light and under statutory control through ‘world-leading oversight’, or — depending on your point of view — the “the most…
Cayman Islands to do Christmas Comedy Road Show
CNCF To Do Christmas Comedy Road Show Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – 22 November 2018 – The Cayman Islands International Storytelling Festival, Gimistory, is being revamped to return in 2019/20 but, in its place this year, the Cayman National Cultural…
Cayman Islands Premier’s Statement on Constitutional talks with the United Kingdom
Statement on Constitutional talks with the United Kingdom By Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP, MLA November 22, 2018 Mr. Speaker, I wish to provide the members of this Honourable House and the public an update on Government’s efforts to…
Far reaching co-operation agreements signed between China and the Dominican Republic
From The Caribbean Council China has signed eighteen agreements with the Dominican Republic. They aim to significantly deepen economic relations through Chinese financial and other support and follow a decision by the Dominican Government taken in May this year to…
Op/Ed: When Santa is a sex offender
By Melissa Martin Christmas is the season where multitudes of excited—or horrified children sit on a stranger’s lap and tell him their wish list. A man in a goofy-looking outfit with a weird ho-ho-ho belly laugh and a white beard…
US Homeland cabins
Steven M. Johnson’s Bizarre Invention #130: Homeland Cabins BY STEVEN JOHNSON – From Core77 STEVEN JOHNSON For more on this story go to: https://www.core77.com/posts/81138/Steven-M-Johnsons-Bizarre-Invention-130-Homeland-Cabins?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%29
Sir Ronald Sanders: Gays are citizens too
By Sir Ronald Sanders A regressive 19th century law, that is a legacy of British rule, continues to exist in 10 of the 12 independent Commonwealth Caribbean states. The law, inspired by the 1553 Buggery Act in England, was imposed…
A regional Cultural and Creative Industries Workshop held in Barbados
Bridgetown, BARBADOS, November 22, 2018. The Caribbean Export Development Agency in collaboration with the European Union, GIZ and BCSI commenced a two-day workshop for practitioners in the creative and cultural industries of CARIFORUM. The Agency hosted forty (40) representatives from…