iNews Briefs & Community Events
NOTE: See also Community Events listed in DATE ORDER below articles and notices DLP to Visit Cayman Brac Representatives from the Department of Labour and Pensions (DLP) will visit Cayman Brac on Thursday, 2 August 2018 to assist clients…
Dr. Seuss had writer’s block. Then, he spotted the Lorax in Africa
BY MARK KAUFMAN From Mashable In the early 1970s, Dr. Seuss was struggling. Amid the growing environmentalist movement in the United States, punctuated by President Richard Nixon’s creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the establishment of the now-beleaguered Endangered…
Jacob Ross, the Caribbean Chekov
By Keith Jardim From newsDay tt Jacob Ross’s recently published Tell No One About This: Collected Stories 1975-2017 is probably the most important and well written gathering of stories ever to appear in the English-language Caribbean, maybe in any language…
Syria: The Evolution Revolution By Peter Polack
From U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center magazine – Posted by permission from the Author
Hot tubs, Cayman Islands, yawning hosts
By Andrea Behling From Channel3000 The stories behind these 1980s covers of Madison Magazine October 1980 Our staff kept coming back to this October 1980 cover of a greasy-haired, shirtless man dressed in dirty cut-off jean shorts, smoking a pipe…
The Story of Kyle
From Snopes One boy’s befriending of an outcast new kid at school stops him from committing suicide. EXAMPLE: [Collected on the Internet, 2000] One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
NOTE: See also Community Events listed in DATE ORDER below articles and notices World Ocean Day Presentation today [Sat 9] at Cayman Islands GAB Entrance Today at 12.30 pm, at the GAB entrance, Minister of Environment, the Honourable Mr Dwayne…
June is Caribbean-American Heritage Month!
By Loribelle Lapaix From OOM Scholastic Heritage (noun) – something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: something that come or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot of portion. The Caribbean is a…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
NOTE: See also Community Events listed in DATE ORDER below articles and notices Mia Mottley Elected First Female Prime Minister of Barbados as Labour Party Wins Election From teleSUR The BLP attacked the current government on its policy of high…
Sam Selvon: The ground-breaking author who gave voice to the Windrush generation
By Chris Baynes From Independent UK His ground-breaking 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is as important today as it ever was, relating the story of Caribbean immigrants who arrived in Britain full of hope and found themselves struggling in isolation…