Mosquito virus fear hits Britons’ Caribbean holidays
By Eleanor Harding for the Daily Mail Tourists warned of deadly disease sweeping islands as thousands return home with agonising symptoms Chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean was first reported last December Over 700,000 suspected cases have been reported in…
Jonathan Franzen: ‘Egypt is the worst place to be a migratory bird’
NatureUp By Adam Welz From The Guardian UK US author sounds warning over Egyptian trapping that kills millions of birds as they migrate from Europe into Africa One of the photos shows a Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix) caught in a…
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Jamaican student killed, two others injured, during armed robbery rampage From Caribbean360 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thursday November 13, 2014 – A student was killed and two others injured following an attack by armed men in the southern parish of St. Elizabeth…
Jamaica calls for larger Caribbean strategy on climate change
From telesur Jamaica has already been affected by severe drought this year due to climate change, causing major losses in its agricultural sector and affecting over 20,000 small farmers. Jamaica’s minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Robert Pickersgill,…
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Cayman Islands Customs arrest two – warn of stronger enforcement looming From Cayman Islands Customs Department The Customs Department has confirmed the arrests of a male visitor on Thursday 6 November and a female visitor on Monday 3 November 2014….
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Marine institute to join Cayman Islands Department of Tourism for DEMA Las Vegas 2014
The Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) receives grant from Darwin Institute to save the Cayman Islands’ coral reefs Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, November 11, 2014 – The Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) today announced plans to host a booth inside…
Where does beach sand come from?
By Adam Hadhazy, Livescience From Business Insider Summer wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the sandy shores of an ocean, bay, lake or river. As the gritty stuff gets in between your toes, you may wonder why beaches are…
Creativity and conservation: An artist speaks on Baha Mar
By Antonius Roberts From Bahama islands info As an artist with both a home and a studio in Cable Beach for many years, my first experiencewith Baha Mar was watching the bulldozers clear the land and cut the roads. I…
Cayman Islands saving Green Sea Turtles
The Cayman Turtle Farm is a 23-acre adventure marine park and is allegedly the only one of its kind in the world. Owned and operated by the Cayman government, it is home to over 11,000 green sea turtles ranging from…
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Christmas comes early for The National Gallery via a donation of “Dready” artwork
Artist Shane “Dready” Aquart recently gifted a large panorama of Grand Cayman to the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI). The work, entitled Cayman Panorama – Things That Exist Only in Fading Memory, features a series of Caymanian architectural…
