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“Not Guilty of murder” says jury in Cayman Islands trial over killing of Swiss banker Leonard Antonio Ebanks was unanimously found not guilty of murder but guilty of an accessory after the fact by a jury on Monday (8). Ebanks…
Cayman Islands civil servants cleanup for Christmas
The public and private sectors came together for a very special community project on Saturday, 29 November 2014. Some 130 civil servants turned out to six locations across Grand Cayman to clean those neighbourhoods in advance of the holidays, as…
Naturalist not ‘Eaten Alive’ by anaconda on TV show, gets called ‘wimp’ by angry viewers
From Fox News Latino It was all hype and no follow-through for Discovery Channel’s special “Eaten Alive.” For weeks the network and nature conservationist Paul Rosolie led viewers to believe that Rosolie would be swallowed whole by a giant green…
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Derek Haines achieves his six4hospice challenge in Cayman Islands Marathon Cayman Islands veteran marathon man, Derek Haines (66) was applauded loudly as he crossed the line in 34th place overall in a time of 3:58:25 at the Intertrust Cayman Islands…
China’s role in Latin America, and what it means for Miami
By Ken Roberts WWW.WORLDCITYWEB.COM From Miami Herald My company, WorldCity, recently hosted an event focused on the relationship between Latin America and China, and what role, if any, Miami has in that burgeoning relationship. And it got me to thinking:…
By the way, Hurricane Season is over
By Meteorologist Jeff Huffman From WRUF It happened [a few days] ago. But did you even notice? Six months of nothing (in Florida, at least) came to an end on Sunday. The conclusion of the 2014 Hurricane Season marks the…
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Cayman Islands Gimistory to be subject of a book Although the Cayman National Cultural Foundation’s (CNCF) Gimistory festival came to another successful conclusion on Saturday (6) it is not really over as it is going to be the subject of…
London-based experts, Daniel Crouch Rare Books, to exhibit rare Sea Charts (inc. Cayman Islands)
Daniel Crouch Rare Books, will exhibit rare sea charts of the United States and the Caribbean (including Cayman Islands) in Miami from 7th – 8th February Leading map and atlas dealer, Daniel Crouch, will bring a selection of rare and…
Caribbean gorgonian corals highly resistant to ocean acidification
From Frontiers Recently a group of coral scientists found that Caribbean gorgonian corals could calcify and grow under future ocean acidification scenarios. The finding, just published in the online first version of the journal Coral Reefs, has important implications for…
The gender bias of global warming
By Parker Liautaud From United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Parker Liautaud is a polar explorer and climate change campaigner. He has undertaken three expeditions to the North Pole and one to the South Pole….