Ocean Action: Dive on the EDGE to save corals in Little Cayman
By Ashley Annin From Scuba Diving Little Cayman Coral Conservation MISSION: Engage recreational divers in marine research on endangered corals HQ: Little Cayman, Cayman Islands YEAR FOUNDED: 2015 CONTACT: [email protected] PROJECT: “By living and working at the Little Cayman Research…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
Community Events MAY 15 ESO Survey Deadlines Local businesses that have still not completed and submitted their annual economic survey forms have only until end of business day Friday 15 May 2015 to submit them to the Economics and Statistics…
Cayman Islands astronomers to show stars to Prep School
From Cayman Islands Astronomical Society (CIAS) News Letter CIAS Dates for your Diary May Tuesday 19th May The next General Public meeting will be next Tuesday 19th May At Pedro’s Castle starting at 7:30 PM Please dim your lights on…
High-level meeting of Caribbean Fisheries Ministers to be held in Grenada
St. George’s, Grenada, 13 May 2015 (CRFM): Fisheries Ministers from Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) are expected to sign off on the Declaration on Spiny Lobster by way of a resolution, when they convene the 9th…
Océano Profundo 2015: at the bottom of the Caribbean
From Scuba News With measured precision remotely operated vehicles D2 and Seirios are lowered into the deep blue waters of the Caribbean. Ready for the unknown, they begin the descent through the water column to the seafloor hundreds of meters…
Six ways to cook iguana
By Jeff Stratton From Broward Palm Beach New Times Now that the temperature has finally taken a dip, watch for dead iguanas falling out of trees! (See photo, taken in Oakland Park last January.) South Florida’s plague of big green…
Talking about a revolution, UWI sees change in the future of the Caribbean
By Christine Nanton From The Bahamas Weekly ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – UWI academics from across the Caribbean comprised over 65 regional and international thought leaders, who for three days engaged in vigorous debate and discussion on challenges and…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
Community Events MAY 14 Ballet Magnificat, comes to Cayman The Christian ballet company, Ballet Magnificat, comes to Cayman for a two night performance. Dancers will bring author C.S. Lewis’ novel The Screwtape Letters to life with the production called Stratagem….
Sri Lanka first nation to protect all mangrove forests
By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, From BBC News Sri Lanka has lost an estimated 76% of its mangrove forests over the past 100 years Sri Lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its…
The tiger at the bar: QC who helped win the fight to see Charles’s letters
By Owen Bowcott From The Guardian UK After a whirlwind week in which she beat attempts to conceal royal communications, the ‘formidable’ Dinah Rose QC shows no signs of slowing Pivoting forward over a barrister’s lectern, flexing confidently on her…