Carnival Corporation expands presence in Caribbean with $85M port in Dominican Republic
Carnival Corporation Expands Presence in Caribbean with $85 Million Port in Dominican Republic, with Six of its Global Brands Adding Amber Cove to World’s Most Popular Cruising Region By October 2015 new Amber Cove port – a filming site for…
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Cayman Tennis: Andy Roddick named Legends champion From Digicel Sportsmax The 2015 Legends Tennis tournament came to a thrilling climax last night as Andy Roddick was crowned tournament champion at Camana Bay’s Festival Green. Following the success of Friday’s event,…
D.C. Dispatch: Sea level rise, Caribbean energy security and Presidential budget
Posted by Federal Relations From FIU news As President Obama prepared to release his FY16 Presidential budget request to Congress, FIU researchers were on global and environmental stages in an action-packed week that included the White House’s Caribbean Energy Security…
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz
From Repeating Islands IMAGE: Screen Shot 2015-02-04 at 10.59.00 PM Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz, Princeton University Press. Call it a hurricane or a ‘weather bomb’,…
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2 Weavering Cayman Islands fund directors have judgement overturned on Appeal Directors, Stefan Peterson and Hans Ekstrom, of the Cayman Islands Weavering Macro Fixed Income fund have had their judgement overturned by the Court of Appeal. The fund collapsed in…
U.S., Cuba play unique roles in abolishing slavery
Bill Federer recounts real history of world’s forced labor From WND Slavery in Cuba began earlier and lasted longer than most anywhere in the Americas. Nearly all ancient cultures made captives of war serve as slaves, such as in Egypt,…
Positive review of Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Thomas N. Thompson., Maritime Environmental and Energy Advisor, U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD), Washington ([email protected]). Solomon Barry D., and Robert Baillis eds. Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Springer Press, 2014 From BiofuelsDigest Amongst…
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Mother dies, children fight for life after drinking “brew of weed killer and pills” From Caribbean360 PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Friday February 13, 2015, CMC – A 26-year-old mother has died and her two young daughters battling for life in hospital after…
Cayman Islands Regulatory Authority approves additional renewable energy capacity
Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd. and The Electricity Regulatory Authority of the Cayman Islands, February 12th 2015. The Electricity Regulatory Authority of the Cayman Islands Approves Additional Capacity for Consumer-Owned Renewable Energy (CORE) Generation Programme The Electricity Regulatory Authority of the…
What are the US interests in Caribbean energy independence?
By David Jessop From Antillean Media Group US Vice-President Joe Biden said that Caribbean energy independence is “equal to anything else America is doing around the world”, and it has a lot to with A few days ago, the Vice…