TT’s Kevin Adonis Browne wins OCM Bocas Prize
From NewsDay AN innovative hybrid book combining essays and memoir with photography has been named the winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture by Trinidadian writer and photographer…
Hitting the books
How calculus is helping unravel DNA’s secrets By Andrew Taritola From engadget It’s not just for the hard sciences anymore! Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard…
Wash your hands immediately after touching these 8 things
by Zoe Papadakis From Newsmax From a young age we’ve been told to wash our hands often and it turns out there is a good reason why parents and teachers are so insistent on this. The Centers for Disease Control…
Sir George Alleyne, an Icon and the telling of an important story
By Basil Roman From The New York Caribbean News He was once called the “little doctor boy.” At least, that was the way Lady Bustamante, wife of Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaica’s first Prime Minister, described George Alleyne to his wife,…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
Support our athletes at Carifta 2019! From Cayman Islands National Museum Cayman Islands FRC Holds Domestic Violence Intervention Training Programme The Department of Counselling Services’ Family Resource Centre (FRC) is hosting a Domestic Violence Intervention Training Programme (DVITP) next month….
What is Game of Thrones’ Legacy in Epic Fantasy?
By Tad Williams From Vulture “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
Cayman Islands First Baptist Activities for Seniors in North Side, Bodden Town and East End Older Persons are invited to the following events that have been organised this month by their district’s community development officers: North Side ●Tuesday, 16 April 2019 –…
The Editor speaks: Mercury
We have published in today’s iNews two articles concerning mercury, and this mercury is not the planet. The mercury I am talking about is the element that looks so pretty in its shiny, fast-moving liquid form. But don’t touch it….
Dr. Bill McGraw releases new book on mercury toxicity
Mercury, The Ultimate Truth and Chronic Disease is the first book to tell the whole story of mercury toxicity, from the contamination of the environment to toxicity in plants and animals and elimination from the human body, and everything in…
Vulture’s GOT endings
37 Culture Creators Predict What Will Happen on Game of Thrones By Matthew Silver from Vulture Do you see an Iron Throne victor here? Illustration: HBO It’s springtime in Westeros! Or at least for the fans, who, praised be the Old Gods…