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…
Cannabis reform is spreading across the Caribbean
BY JON HILTZ ON From Marijuana As if the Caribbean couldn’t get any better, it’s now a hotbed of marijuana reform. Jamaica finally decided to put a ring on it and allow for citizens and tourists to carry up to…
US nonimmigrant visa filings in Jamaica increase by 117 per cent
By Daniel Waldron and Sanwar Ali From workpermit.com According to the Counsellor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Jamaica, Joshua Polacheck, applications for US non-immigrant visas – mainly the B-1 business visitor visa and B-2 visitor for pleasure,…
Jamaica to represent Caribbean in working group for procurement reform
From Caribbean Development Bank Jamaica will represent the Caribbean in a stakeholders’ working group to revise the Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS). Originally launched in 2004, MAPS is used by countries around the world to analyse the quality and…
Commentary: Matthew: 10: 4-16
By Jean H Charles From Caribbean News Now “Jesus sent out the twelve and commanded them: Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost…
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Telecommunications here are appalling All last week the awful Internet speed went from FLOW;s slow to packing up altogether for intermittent periods of a minute to 15 minutes. I was therefore astonished to read a representative from FLOW inform CNS…
Hurricane Matthew pounds Bahamas after devastation in Haiti
Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful hurricane to threaten the Atlantic Coast in more than a decade, is battering the Bahamas with winds of up to 125 miles per hour. At least 27 deaths are blamed on the storm. Millions of…
6 million children in Hurricane Matthew’s dangerous path
From Caribbean360 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Tuesday October 4, 2016 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has activated its emergency response plan as the Atlantic’s strongest storm in years takes aim at Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. UNICEF estimates…
Cayman Islands government refute hoax story
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – A hoax news story and website is being shared online claiming that citizens from the Cayman Islands and Jamaica can travel to either country without a visa for up to six months and that fees…
Matthew dumping extreme rains; threat to southeast U.S. growing
By: Jeff Masters and Bob Henson , 6From Weather Underground Very dangerous Hurricane Matthew is maintaining Category 4 strength as it heads northwards at 6 mph, and is already dumping potentially catastrophic rains on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. An…
