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2018 Cayman Airways Under 15 Tournament starts this week
West Bay Sports Foundation hosts the 2018 Cayman Airways Invitational Under 15 Youth Football Cup this week from Tuesday, May 29 to Saturday, June 2 at the Ed Bush Sports Field in West Bay and the Cayman Brac Field in…
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Dominican Republic and Venezuela: Cocaine across the Caribbean
Written by Venezuela Investigative Unit From InSight Crime Drug traffickers have a problem exporting drugs from Venezuela. There are few commercial flights, little container shipping, no tourists and a collapsed fishing sector. But the Dominican Republic, 1,400 kilometers away, has…
PAHO calls on the role of nurses in primary health care to be expanded
More responsibility and autonomy for graduate primary health care nurses will lead to better access to quality care in vulnerable areas and areas with limited health care coverage Washington, D.C., 10 May 2018 (PAHO / WHO) — Expanding the role…
2018 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship to resume play in June
Three available FIFA U-17 World Cup Uruguay 2018 spots on the line Miami (Friday, May 11, 2018) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) announced today that the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship, which was…
Venture-capital funding in 2017 was the highest it’s been in the past 10 years
By Zoë Bernard From Business Insider Venture-capital funding is booming in the United States. According to Pitchbook data charted for us by Statista, startup funding reached a record decade-long high in 2017, with $84.2 billion in funding raised over the…
Drake Relays: Cayman Islands’ Kemar Hyman’s brother died the night before his race. He ran in his memory.
By Dargan Southard From Des Moines Register He could’ve chosen not to run given the circumstances, and everyone would’ve understood. The news Kemar Hyman received Friday night, less than 24 hours before his elite 100-meter race at the Drake Relays, is…
Jeff Bezos reveals what it’s like to build an empire and become the richest man in the world — and why he’s willing to spend $1 billion a year to fund the most important mission of his life
By Mathias Döpfner From Business Insider Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider’s parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to talk about the early days of creating Amazon, what he’s learned since then, how…
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Report: Jamaica a major transit point for illicit drugs
BY AZAD ALI From Caribbean Life Four Caribbean countries (CARICOM) have been named by the United States as major illicit drug-production countries. The Bahamas, Belize, Haiti and Jamaica were named as major drug-transit countries in the U.S. 2018 Narcotics Control…
Update: Cayman Islands water-related death in East End, 20 April
From RCIPS Tue Apr 24 2018 Police can now confirm the identity of the woman who died on Friday, 20 April, after encountering difficulties while scuba diving. She is 70-year-old Beverly Ann Bersano, of Illinois in the United States. The…
Indonesia to release impounded yacht sought over 1MDB case-police
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa From Reuters JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court ruled on Tuesday that a luxury yacht linked to a corruption scandal at a Malaysian state fund was wrongfully impounded in Bali at the request of U.S….
