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Cayman Islands: ‘CRS 101’ seminar aims to help firms prepare
As local financial services firms look to finalise their preparations for the OECD’s Common Reporting Standards (CRS), a seminar aims to help them to be ready for the country’s latest financial services initiative. Local consulting firm FTS is organizing a…
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Everyone needs to stop ignoring the real toxins that are linked to autism
By Alycia Halladay, STAT From Business Insider Andrew Wakefield’s notorious and now discredited research on autism and vaccines in 1998 triggered a surge of worry about vaccine safety. Since then, questions about a purported connection between autism and vaccines have…
Cayman Islands Statement on World Health Organization (WHO)-approved HIV Testing Kits
The Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Elizabeth McLaughlin, Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr. Samuel Williams-Rodriguez, and the Ministry of Health are providing further information regarding the reported “false negative HIV results” in response to queries relating to approved HIV…
JGHS Aqua Lasers Champions at 2017 Cayman Islands Seaperch Challenge
Top prize at the 2017 Cayman Islands SeaPerch Challenge went to a team of 11-year-old John Gray High School students. The Challenge took place this past weekend at the Camana Bay Sports Complex Pool, and the team of Diamond White,…
The surprising reason men have bigger noses than women
By Dina Spector From Business Insider BI Answers: Why do men have bigger noses than women? Maybe you’re not shocked that, in general, men have larger noses than their more delicate female counterparts. A study last year found that at…
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Butterfield introduces environmentally-focused post-graduate scholarship
George Town, Grand Cayman — 14 March 2017: The parent company of Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited, Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited (“Butterfield” or the “Bank”) (NYSE: NTB | BSX: NTB.BH) recently announced that it is introducing a new…
Cayman Islands IWD celebration applauds women, asks men to do more
This year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) celebration attracted the largest attendance in recent years. Held at the Marriott Grand Cayman Beach Resort Ballroom on Wednesday, 8 March 2017, the sold-out event attracted a capacity audience of 350 men and women…
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Global health innovations can be game-changers at home, too
By AIKATERINI MANTZAVINOU, BRYAN J. RANGER, EMMA COSTA, SAMUEL RODRIQUES, HOK HEI TAM, RAJARSHI BANERJEE, and LINDSAY BROWNELL From STAT NEWS Rich and poor countries used to struggle with different sets of health issues: obesity in one versus malnutrition in…
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Study shows poor school infrastructure in Latin America, Caribbean
From Jamaica Observer WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — A new study has found that only one in four students in basic education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) attends an educational centre with sufficient school infrastructure. The study undertaken…
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Cayman Islands students triumph at the Fourth Conyers Inter-Schools Debate Tournament
Weeks of preparation and planning by almost 50 high-school and middle-school students and their coaches were finally realised at the Conyers Inter-Schools Debate Tournament. Hosted at St Ignatius School, it is now the largest single-day debating event in the Cayman…
