Five Caribbean islands with hardly any day-tripper traffic
By David Swanson The Moorish architecture of Cap Juluca on Maundays Bay helped set the style for resorts to come on Anguilla. On my first trip to Tortola almost two decades ago, I was struck how the British Virgin Island’s…
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Cayman Islands Suspended Prison Officer Resigns December 5, 2014 Suspended Prison Officer suspected of providing false information on the application to the Prison Service has today resigned with immediate effect. The investigation into the matter was completed today and the suspended…
Cayman Islands Postal Service 2014 Christmas stamps now on sale and opening/closing hours
One of the many ways that Caymanians celebrate the Christmas season is to attend a church service on December 25 – and in that spirit the Cayman Islands Postal Services has issued commemorative stamps which depict local places of worship….
Hydro Nano Gas could be the answer for neutralizing carbon fuel emissions
By Michelle Bennett Hydro Infra Technologies (HIT), a Swedish clean tech company based in Stockholm, has developed an innovative patent pending approach for neutralizing carbon fuel emissions by generating a novel gas called Hydro Nano Gas (HNG). In spite of…
World is locked into ~1.5°c warming & risks are rising, new climate report finds
From The World Bank The new “Turn Down the Heat” report explores the risks worsening climate change poses to lives and livelihoods across three regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East and…
This is so beautiful & so very true…
These images with words of wisdom were sent to us by one of our readers and we share them with you…. Share these images with those to whom you care about. As our reader says, “one never knows what tomorrow…
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Cayman Islands Chief Immigration Officer on required leave The Ministry of Home Affairs confirms that the Chief Immigration Officer (CIO) has been placed on required leave with immediate effect, as per the provisions of schedule 1 section 8(2) of the…
Ian McDonald: Caribbean man
By Ken Ramchand From Guardian TT Trini by birth, Guyanese by adoption, West Indian by conviction Dr Ian McDonald, author of the novel The Humming–Bird Tree, was inducted as a Distinguished Friend of Mr Biswas at a ceremony held at…
The struggle to save the Caribbean’s huge barrier reef
From BBC The Mesoamerican Reef is a wildlife haven threatened by tourism and overfishing, but it could be saved IMAGES: The Caribbean’s Mesoamerican Reef is the second largest barrier reef in the world, stretching 600 miles (965 km). Only the…
“Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Confronting the new climate normal”
By Jorge Familiar Washington, D.C., United States from The World Bank Climate change is a clear and dire threat to Latin America and the Caribbean. A threat in which the region has had little or no role in the making,…
