8 Drugs doctors won’t take
By Lynn Allison From Newsmax Every doctor knows that there are two types of top-selling medications: Those that are popular because they are effective and those that sell well because of big drug company marketing campaigns. It is this second…
Founder of Cuba’s human rights movement dies
From Go-Jamaica MADRID, Spain, CMC – A founder and leading figure of Cuba’s human rights movement and a sharp critic of the Fidel and Raúl Castro governments for decades is dead. Martha Frayde Barraqué, who died here on Wednesday, was…
Russia had no stomach for the Grenadian revolution
By Everton Pryce From Jamaica Observer IT is often said that the marginal Marxist-Leninist Caribbean state of Grenada under Maurice Bishop’s New Jewel Movement (NJM) of 1979-1983 was a satellite of Russia. But many readers of this column may be…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
These are the worst cell phones of all time
By Caroline Moss From Business Insider Since the advent of cellular technology, we’ve seen some awesome phones. We’ve also seen some terrible phones. Remember the Motorola ROKR? How about the Pantech? We searched for what people called their “worst cell…
BF&M earnings up 15 per cent
By Don Burgess, Deputy Editor BDA Sun BF&M CEO and president John Wight said: “The company’s balance sheet continues to be very strong. Equity attributable to shareholders at 30 September 2013 was $217.1 million. General fund assets totaled $1.1 billion…
Hopes high in ACP-EU meet
By Bradford Theonomi From Solomon Star News African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States are hopeful and confident of a good outcome when meeting with the European Union Commissioner this week after decades of negotiations. A pre-meeting prior to…
Caymanian Bar Association Press Release on the National Conservation Bill, 2013
Report of the Caymanian Bar Association Subcommittee on the National Conservation Bill, 2013 (the “Bill“) Executive Summary The Cayman Islands have a history of enacting environmental protection legislation to various degrees and are already subscribed to a number of environmental…
