Seafarers’ House to Honor Royal Caribbean’s Michael Bayley
From Cruise Industry News Michael Bayley, president and CEO of Royal Caribbean International, has been selected as the recipient of Seafarers’ House International Golden Compass Award for 2018, according to a statement. The award is given each year to those…
Crime, high unemployment hampering economic growth in Caribbean
By CMC From St Lucia News Online (CMC) – Economic growth in the Caribbean is being hampered by high unemployment among young people regarded as the highest in the world and crime, according to a IMFBlog, a forum for the…
Israel PM Netanyahu ‘should be charged with corruption’
From BBC Israeli police are to recommend that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be charged over alleged bribery cases, the country’s media report. Police questioned Mr Netanyahu as part of an inquiry into corruption allegations last month. At the time, he…
Sea of Thieves is Rare’s riskiest voyage yet, but it’s a huge success
By MATT KAMEN From Wired Emergent gameplay, epic quests, and fixing toxic player behaviour – WIRED goes behind the scenes on Rare’s biggest game in years Deep in the green idylls of rural Leicestershire, one of the UK’s most important…
In search of surrogates
In search of surrogates, foreign couples descend on Ukraine By Kevin Ponniah From BBC News Ukraine, one of Europe’s poorest nations, is fast becoming the place to go for people desperate to find a surrogate to have their baby. The…
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Multimillion dollar sewage fix for Barbados
By Nya Phillips BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) — It will cost the Barbados government $12.9 million to address the south coast sewage issues, minister with responsibility for water resource management, Dr David Estwick, said at a press conference last weekend. He…
Portugal police ‘find cocaine in traveller’s padded pants’
From BBC Police in Portugal have detained a man at Lisbon’s international airport accused of carrying 1kg (2.2lb) of cocaine in fake buttocks. Local media said the Brazilian citizen had arrived on a flight from the city of Belém, in…
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Jamaican cleared in Bermuda court of drug charges
From The Jamaica Gleaner HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): Maurice Martin, a 34-year-old Jamaican national, who survived a 2010 shooting that killed his friend, has been cleared by a Supreme Court of a plot to import fentanyl into Bermuda with two Canadians….
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Cayman Islands to emerge as key strategic hub for subsea cable sector
By Chris Kelly, From Total Telecom OfReg is working with other government departments to open up the Cayman Island’s subsea sector to international investors The Cayman Islands could emerge as a key strategic hub, linking the US with developing markets…
You Can’t Deport a Movement rally at Foley Square
BY TEQUILA MINSKY From Caribbean Life The tone, Saturday morning, Feb. 11, began a bit lighter than might have been as immigration rights activists filled Foley Square in the shadow of Manhattan courts at the “You Can’t Deport a Movement”…
