Year of the Tiger starts Black History Month
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life Instead of the annual roar of excitement that annually usher in the Chinese lunar new year, some members of the Asian community will growl the Feb. 1 arrival of the Year of the Tiger….
FEB 3 7PM EST: Launch of the Black World Media Network (BWMN) – 24×7 audio and video streaming and on-demand media network.
Black World Media Network (BWMN) Launches Feb 3 2020 Connecting our Black World. 24×7 audio and video streaming and on-demand media network. Join us for the premiere and live discussion. Join us on Zoom: Feb 3, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time …
UK: Estate agents lose out on £998m in fees in 2021 as more transactions fall through
From James Lockett ProperPR Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has revealed the eye-watering sums of money that estate agents are losing out on in a single year due to the number of sales that fall through before completion. The research shows…
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Governor and DG Respond to Unauthorised Leak of Auditor General’s Report
Grand Cayman, 01 February 2022 – His Excellency The Governor Martyn Roper and Deputy Governor Hon. Franz Manderson have issued the following statements in response to the unauthorised leak of the Office of the Auditor General’s Report regarding work by the…
OECS Hosts Council of Ministers Environmental Sustainability Meeting with the Director General of GGGI
By Crispin d’Auvergne Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Monday, January 31, 2022 — As Small Island Developing States (SIDS), OECS Member States are particularly vulnerable to climate change and other external shocks. To address this challenge, OECS Member States are working…
Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns had little impact on COVID deaths
By Nicole Wells From Newsmax Johns Hopkins University researchers say lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little to no impact in reducing COVID-19 deaths. According to a new analysis of dozens of scientific studies, the lockdowns during the early phase of the…
Cayman: Government launches New Job Opportunities Portal
As of Tuesday, 1 February 2022, what was previously a database listing civil service vacancies, will become a fully functional recruitment portal that allows jobseekers to proactively store and update their employment profile, in a format that can be reused…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Checks and Balances-Is it time to change the Electoral System?
By SIR RONALD SANDERS From Tribune242 The second consecutive general elections in Barbados on January 19, at which Mia Mottley’s Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won all 30 seats in the House of Representatives, were hailed as historic. They certainly were…
UK’s housing market has strongest start to year in almost two decades
From James Lockett ProperPR Please read below industry reaction to this morning’s Nationwide House Price Index, showing the housing market has made the strongest start to the year in almost two decades. Director of Benham and Reeves, Marc von Grundherr, commented:…
Tonnes of COVID−19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems
Geneva, 1 February 2022 – Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and environmental health and exposing…
