Establishment of the Cayman Islands Child Safeguarding Board
A Child Safeguarding Board has been established in the Cayman Islands. This multidisciplinary Board will enable entities to work collaboratively in the interest of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in the Cayman Islands. Membership of…
Door to Door Enumeration for General Elections starts end August
Election officials are gearing up for the start of door to door enumeration of voters on Saturday, 27 August 2016, in the run up to next year’s General Elections. Just over 160 enumerators will be knocking on the doors of…
Meet the Cayman Islands finalists of Proud of Them: David & Kasinda
David Forbes David Forbes, 18, is an exemplary student who already has a string of major awards and personal achievements under his belt. His record of academic success began early in life, when he was named the Head Boy at…
OK, let’s talk about sex at the Rio Olympics
BY SAM LAIRD From Mashable Olympians are doin’ it, doin’ it and doin’ it well, to paraphrase one LL Cool J. We’re talking about sports, of course. But the same applies to sex at the Games. Ten-thousand of the world’s…
“Stuff the Bus” partners with Hurley’s Media and invites other Cayman Islands businesses to get involved in the B
Stuff the Bus, an annual community wide initiative, hosted by Caribbean Alliance Insurance kicked off last week with the aim of helping hundreds of students returning to classes at the end of this month. The goal of the community drive…
2 Bios of Cayman Islands “Proud of them” youth
Here are the first 2 of the individual bios from the Proud of Them (PoT) reception held at the George Town Yacht Club on Wednesday, 3 August 2016. Youth Minister Osbourne Bodden and Education Minister Tara Rivers presented the…
News Briefs & Community Events
Belize Bank seeks to satisfy $27M judgment against Belize Gov’t From OffshoreAlert Following a recent appeals court ruling in Washington, D.C., British businessman Michael Ashcroft’s Belize Bank is attempting to find and seize assets in the United States that belong…
The Washington Post is handing its Olympic coverage to a robot reporter
By Luke Dormehl, Digital Trends From Business Insider The Olympics is all about humankind’s ability to triumph over its naturally-imposed limitations and the world around it. So why, then, has the highly-respected Washington Post announced that it is handing much of…
Improved budgeting process on the horizon in Saint Kitts and Nevis, as ECLAC wraps-up training
A recent training workshop facilitated by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has “opened the eyes” of the Ministry of Finance of Saint Kitts and Nevis on how budgeting can be…
Human climate influence means we’re skipping an ice age
By Andrew Tarantola From engadget NO GLACIERS FOR YOU! COME BACK, 100,000 YEARS! According to a new study published in Nature, human-generated climate change — specifically the massive additions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere —…