Cayman Islands East End Primary launches home reading programme
Monday 21st September marked a major milestone for East End Primary School as they officially launched their Home Reading Programme, a first for East End Primary School. Minister of Education, Honourable Tara Rivers, joined the students, staff, members of the…
Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean most vibrant: Sushma Swaraj in a book
By IANS From The New Indian Express PORT-OF-SPAIN: The Indian diaspora in the Caribbean is one of the most vibrant across the globe, says India’s Minister for External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, in a just published book…
Writing rites of reclamation: Blackness and Caribbean remembering
By Melanie Manuel-Webb From The Postcolonialist September 14, 2015 “EXCITABLE SPEECH? RADICAL DISCOURSE AND THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM” (SUMMER 2015) · ACADEMIC DISPATCHES · CIVIL DISCOURSE · FEATURED · GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES · MAGAZINE In his Nobel Prize speech Derek Walcott…
The Caribbean Writer to launch vol. 29 with premiere of award winning film
From The Virgin Islands Consortium “The Caribbean Writer – Where the Caribbean Imagination embraces the World,” has launched Volume 29 of the University of the Virgin Islands’ international, revered, literary journal with a Caribbean focus. The 2015 theme of the…
Facebook to defend $20 Million ‘Sponsored Stories’ settlement
By Ross Todd, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. has already faced a lot of flack over the settlement it reached in the privacy class action over a short-lived advertising feature that promoted brands with user photos. It…
Justice Breyer takes on the world
By Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal The 77-year-old justice talks retirement, death penalty and his new book about foreign law. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer does not sound like he is retiring any time soon. “I guess at…
Recent Scholarship in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies: A Brief Bibliography
By Reena Goldthree From African American Intellectual History Society The past twelve months have witnessed an outpouring of new scholarship on the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Newly published works include fresh treatments of seminal thinkers Sylvia…
Russia hit with $43m sanction for refusal to return Jewish books
By Zoe Tillman, From Legal Times A federal district judge in Washington entered a $43.7 million judgment against the Russian Federation on Thursday as a sanction for rebuffing a U.S. court order to return thousands of Jewish religious texts seized…
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Community Events RENT: The Musical Opened Thursday September 10th, 2015 Runs to October 3rd, 2015 Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays Doors open at 6:30 PM for Happy Hour try our special Tom Collins cocktail! at The Prospect Playhouse Do not miss…
The future of Cayman Islands telecommunications
Research and Markets: The Future of Cayman Islands Telecommunications Market to 2025 – Analysis and Outlook of Mobile, Fixed Line and Broadband Sectors September 11, 2015 08:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/hw9cc2/the_future_of) has announced the addition…