Year 3 students in Cayman Islands celebrate their love of classroom book clubs
From Cayman Islands Ministry of Education On Wednesday 1 April, Minister of Education, Honourable Tara Rivers, along with Acting Chief Officer, Christen Suckoo, joined 110 Year 3 students from five classes in four different schools to share their love of…
Cayman Islands Commonwealth Essay Winners celebrated
Twenty eight primary and high school students bagged prizes in the Royal Commonwealth Society 2014 essay competition. Top winner overall was St. Ignatius Catholic School with 19 awards, followed by Cayman Prep and High School with seven awards. Two students…
Five Caribbean poets shortlisted for Hollick Arvon Prize
From Bocas News Poets from three Caribbean countries in the running for region’s leading emerging writers’ award The judges for the 2015 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize have announced a shortlist of five, chosen from among the ten previously longlisted…
Westhampton Beach Books & Books named Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year
By Priscila Korb from Patch The store received the honor earlier this week. Westhampton Beach Bookstore Named Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year Publishers Weekly recently announced that they have named Books & Books in Westhampton Beach as Bookseller of…
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Cayman Islands bank robbers sentenced Last month a jury found David Tamasa, George Mignott, Andre Burton and Rennie Cole of robbing $500,000 from Cayman National Bank in 2012 for the second time. The first time a Court of Appeal overturned…
A hidden piece of WWII history
From The Haverhill Gazette While conducting research for her doctoral thesis, Northern Essex Community College associate professor Ligia Domenech stumbled upon a brief reference to the U-Boat blockade of the Caribbean during World War II. This footnote left her with…
‘Food for Thought’ puts a tasty spin on consuming literature
By MJ Franklin From Mashable In her Food for Thought: Book Collection In Tins series, designer Maria Mordvintseva-Keeler puts a foodie twist on how we consume literature. Instead of a traditional book, Mordvintseva-Keeler has neatly packaged three classic stories, Breakfast…
Stieg Larsson’s partner appalled by ‘Millennium business’
By Camille Bas-Wohlert, AFP From Business Insider Stockholm (AFP) – Eva Gabrielsson doesn’t mince her words: continuing the wildly successful Millennium trilogy written by her late partner Stieg Larsson is a mistake and should never have happened. The highly-anticipated fourth…
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April events at Camana Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman (Thursday 26 April, 2015): From a series of cooking classes designed to help you master the kitchen to a concert featuring The Voice winner, Jamaican recording artist Tessanne Chin to the ultimate pyjama party to sampling…
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Saturday is World Poetry Day and Cayman Islands are celebrating it too
The Cayman Islands will participate, though in a limited way, in an international celebration of poetry on Saturday, 21 March, 2015. Chief Officer in the Ministry of Culture Jennifer Ahearn said the Ministry thought that this year would be an…
