Hurricane outlook calm for first week of 2015 Atlantic season
By Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune No tropical storms or hurricanes are expected to form during the next five days in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea or the north Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center’s…
Caribbean told to brace for 11 storms in 2015
By CMC/Jamaica Observer From St Lucia newsonline BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The US-based National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting six to 11 named storms for the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season even as regional disaster officials warned Caribbean countries not…
iNews Briefs, More and Community Events
Cayman Islands Community Events MON JUNE 1 National Workforce Development Agency in East End The National Workforce Development Agency will be at the East End Library on Monday (1 Jun) from 10 — 1pm. TUE JUNE 2 Child month Board…
Cayman Islands Health City set to install solar farm
A 1.2 megawatt solar farm will soon be installed at Health City Cayman Islands, the first of its kind for a Caribbean hospital. The solar farm will utilise cutting edge technology to integrate a photovoltaic energy storage system with the…
Deadly flooding across Texas & Oklahoma
By Lindsey Robertson From Mashable Recent flooding in Texas and Oklahoma has resulted in evacuations, property damage and one death. Residents throughout both states have had to be rescued from the roofs and attics of their homes. More…
NASA finds distant galaxy shining as bright as 300 trillion suns
By Mariella Moon From engadget Ever tried looking at the sun with your bare eyes? Too bright, right? Now imagine looking at something with the brightness of 300 trillion suns. That’s how intense “the most luminous galaxy found to date”…
The people who control the Internet got together in a room yesterday — here’s what they’re worried about
By Cale Guthrie Weissman From Business Insider On Thursday, in a large Romanesque ballroom on Manhattan’s Amsterdam Avenue, the people who make the big decisions relating to the underlying technology of what we call the “internet” sat discussing the future….
iNews Briefs, More and Community Events
Community Events MAY 28 Public Lecture GT All are invited to a Public Lecture on “The Relevance of Christianity in a Post Christian World” on Thursday May 28th at the Elmslie Memorial Church Hall, Harbor Drive, George Town at 5:30pm….
Scientists discovered the world’s first warm-blooded fish
By Will Dunham, Reuters From Business Insider Move over, mammals and birds, and make room for a fish called the opah in the warm-blooded club. Researchers said in the journal Science on Thursday that this deepwater denizen is the first…
The mysterious disappearance of a forgotten filmmaker
By Chris Dickens From OZY When Thomas Edison and his assistant revealed their movie-playing Kinetoscope to the public in 1893, no one seemed to know that the first moving pictures had been shot several years earlier by an unknown inventor…