Florida family seeks ultimate Spanish bounty
By Diego Urdaneta, AFP From Business Insider Fort Pierce (United States) (AFP) – The Jolly Roger flying from the bow of the Schmitt family ship is a telling sign of what these modern buccaneers are after: Spanish gold. Instead of…
Caribbean Fil Mart projects to undergo training initiative with Jan Miller
The feature-film projects participating in the inaugural Caribbean Film Mart (CFM), taking place at the 2015 trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff/15), will engage in a training initiative facilitated by Jan Miller, an international consultant and trainer specialising in film and television…
Writing rites of reclamation: Blackness and Caribbean remembering
By Melanie Manuel-Webb From The Postcolonialist September 14, 2015 “EXCITABLE SPEECH? RADICAL DISCOURSE AND THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM” (SUMMER 2015) · ACADEMIC DISPATCHES · CIVIL DISCOURSE · FEATURED · GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES · MAGAZINE In his Nobel Prize speech Derek Walcott…
Comptroller takes issue with assets recovery firm
By Alley Olivier From Caribbean Life No good deed comes without its challenges. In an effort to connect 1,056 New York City workers to an average owed amount of $3,576, the comptroller’s office discovered another organization attempting to do the…
Jamaica’s Ambassador Ralph Thomas presents credentials to President Obama
From South Florida Caribbean News Washington, DC – Ambassador Ralph Thomas, Jamaica’s new ambassador to the United States, officially presented his Letter of Credence to the President of the United States, Barack Obama during a ceremony held in the oval…
A study finds men are overconfident and immodest — which may be why they’re more successful as entrepreneurs
By Shana Lebowitz From Business Insider A new study finds stressed-out men are less likely to be high-status leaders A psychologist has a simple theory that explains why you dread going to work in the morning Scientists say middle managers…
Cuba and the U.S. list topics to progress on bilateral relations
From acn Cuban News Agency HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 11(acn) Environmental protection and prevention of natural disasters, health, civil aviation, law implementation and enforcement, the struggle against drug trafficking and human trafficking, and transnational crime, are among the top issues that…
Texas schoolboy arrested over clock to visit Obama as authorities defend action
By Jessica Glenza and Nicky Woolf in New York From The Guardian UK Ahmed Mohamed, 14, who has been invited to the White House for science fair, says he is thinking of changing schools after incident A 14-year-old Texas boy…
FSC ordered to pay damages to Delroy Howell
By Vivian Tyson, Senior SUN Editor From Turks & Caicos Sun The Turks and Caicos Islands Supreme Court has awarded Jamaican businessman Delroy Howell damages against the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and its director Kevin Higgins after Howell claimed the…
omen of economic doom
Why this 2,073-foot Chinese building could be an omen of economic doom By Elena Holodny From Business Insider Nothing suggests the height of human achievement and economic prowess quite like a skyscraper. DNU Shanghai Tower Copyright Gensler The newly completed…





