Caribbean Youth Making Agriculture Their Business
From Caribbean360 October 31, 2016 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Monday October 31, 2016 – Caribbean young people, many of whom are formally educated, even at the university level, are increasingly seeing prospects in the agricultural sector amidst a tightening job…
Caribbean gov’ts yet to fulfil financial commitments to Haiti – CDEMA head
From Jamaica Gleaner Head of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson has revealed that some two weeks after Hurricane Matthew ravaged Haiti, Caribbean governments are yet to make good on their commitments to provide financial resources for…
United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (Cayman) response to Hurricane Matthew’s impact on Haiti
The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) has 9 Congregations here in Grand Cayman and we form the Cayman Islands Regional Mission Council. Our churches span the island from Gun Bay to West Bay: John Gray Memorial…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman aids Haiti
Cayman aids Haiti but why were our churches not at the forefront? Why is their effort so fragmented? They should have been showing us united LOVE. The Cayman Islands boasts one of the highest number of churches per capita of…
Cayman Islands sends Hurricane help to Haiti
The big-hearted people of the Cayman Islands sent a plane-load of aid to hurricane-hit Haiti on Sunday (16 October 2016). Hundreds of boxes of emergency supplies were loaded onto a Cayman Airways flight on Saturday night and then flown to…
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Caribbean – Hurricane Matthew Fact Sheet #6, Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
REPORT from US Agency for International Development From reliefweb HIGHLIGHTS Increased road access and logistics capacity enable relief agencies to reach more hurricane-affected populations USAID food and relief commodity distributions continue as GoH and UN estimate 806,000 people in urgent…
Raise up Haiti from its knees
By Sir Ronald Sanders Haiti was due to have elections on October 9 to choose a new President. Even before Hurricane Matthew blasted the country on October 4 with category 4 force winds and a 190-mile outer band of powerful…
ructing Matthew: How 30-mile ‘wobble’ spared area
By Seth Robbins From The Daytona Beach News-Journal As Hurricane Matthew churned north toward Florida’s coast, emergency officials were ready for the worst: terrifying winds that would rip apart houses, rushing water that would lay waste to everything in its…
Speedy insurance payout of USD 29 million to support Caribbean relief in wake of Matthew
From Smith Re The tally of lives lost, and number of people displaced in the wake of Matthew is tragic. Outbreaks of cholera due to water mixing with sewage in Haiti is further aggravating the extreme hardship, emphasizing the urgent…
Haiti relief
Cayman Islands relief effort to Haiti finally gets off the ground Relief supplies to Haiti that have been poring in to the Saxon offices on Eastern Avenue finally got loaded onto a Cayman Airways plane. Matthew Leslie of the Cayman…
