The Rise of the Gulf Carriers
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist Every company can count on an existential threat showing up at its door sooner or later. For European and Asian airlines, that time is now, and it is three Persian Gulf-based carriers that are…
Why plunging oil prices should worry Caribbean governments
By David Jessop From Antillean Media Group Effects on the Venezuelan economy, and its ability to sustain the PetroCaribe agreement with Caribbean countries, is now a major economic worry On the face of it, the collapse in global oil prices…
Blood of the Irish
Blood of the Irish: What DNA tells us about the ancestry of people in Ireland From Hub Pages Blood of the Irish The Blood in Irish veins is Celtic, right? Well, not exactly. Although the history many Irish people were…
The Cayman Islands target industry professionals during Europe
The engage!14 wedding summit took over Grand Cayman 17 — 20 November with three days of inspiration, insights and innovation for the industry’s best planners, designers, photographers and more. The buzz created by these wedding professionals inspired the Cayman Islands…
Try this Thanksgiving-inspired chicken liver pâté with bourbon and cranberry
By Daniel Gritzer Culinary Director From Serious Eats All-American ingredients like bourbon, apple cider, and cranberries are the stars of this holiday pâté. [Photographs: Vicky Wasik] I read somewhere recently that pâté had gone out of style. That bothered me,…
Airport Carbon Accreditation programme goes global
From Airport World The Airport Carbon Accreditation programme now covers every region of the globe after it was announced at the 23rd ACI Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Annual Conference and General Assembly in Cancun last week it was to…
The world’s best hotel restaurants in 2014 [#7 is in Cayman Islands]
By CNN Staff From KTUU It’s a familiar refrain among jet-lagged travelers, usually accompanied by a despondent shrug. “Well, I guess we could just grab a quick bite at the hotel.” Hotel restaurants have long had a reputation for offering…
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…
iNews Briefs
Remembrance Day this weekend in Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands Protocol Office has announced that Remembrance Day annual service takes place on Sunday, 9 November 2014, at 10:45 am, on Harbour Drive in front of Elmslie Memorial Church. The general…
It’s farewell season for several ships in the Caribbean
By Theresa Norton Masek From Travel Pulse It’s farewell season in the Caribbean as several cruise ships are operating their final winter program in the sunny islands. Seabourn will bid goodbye to two of its smaller luxury yachts in the…