Caribbean’s most ambitious submarine fiber-optic link nearly complete
By Mar Gonzalo From Fox News Latino Spain’s Telefonica will put the finishing touches next week in Puerto Rico on the longest and most powerful submarine cable link in the Caribbean, a project that will provide a fiber-optic connection between…
FBI admits forensic evidence errors in hundreds of cases
From BBC The FBI admitted errors made in statements regarding hair analysis The FBI has admitted “errors” in evidence provided by its forensics laboratory to US courts to help secure convictions, including in death penalty cases, over more than 20…
Is this meeting necessary?
From SmartDraw How to eliminate unnecessary meetings and turbo-charge the necessary ones. It’s true. People hate meetings. But for most business people, meetings are a necessary evil. Why are they so detested, and what can be done about it? According…
Letter from Charleston, S.C. – Colony of a colony
By Sir Henry S. Fraser From Caribbean360April 20, 2015 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday April 20, 2015 – Last week, in celebrating International Day for Monuments and Sites, I wrote a bit about our sister city Charleston (“the Holy City”) in South…
How can Latin America and the Caribbean keep up inclusive growth?
By Louise Cord Co-Authors: Carlos Rodríguez Castelán From The World Bank The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has been the most inclusive region in the world over the last decade: not only did it cut extreme poverty in half,…
El Salvador to host event aimed at promoting Central American cruise-ship tourism
By Larry Luxner From The Tico Times A cruise ship approaches Trujillo, Honduras. Orlando Sierra/AFP Next month, the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association will hold its 2015 regional meeting in El Salvador – the only Central American nation without a Caribbean coast….
Haiti invited to join Central American and Caribbean Judicial Council
From Haiti Sentinel MANAGUA, Nicaragua (sentinel.ht) – Among the resolutions adopted by the Judicial Council of Central America and the Caribbean at its meeting in Managua this week was to send an official invitation to the chief justices of the…
Traditional marriage group calls on Ginsburg to recuse
By Tony Mauro, From Supreme Court Brief A leading group that opposes same-sex marriage is urging U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse herself from the landmark cases that could decide whether such marriages must be permitted under…
3D printing and the issues for rights holders
From Walker Morris The growth of 3D printing It has been reported that Boeing has recently filed a patent application related to the 3D printing of replacement aircraft parts. This is part of a trend of an increasing number of…
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Reports of the death of West Indies cricket have been greatly exaggerated
By Emma John From The Guardian UK Jermaine Blackwood’s batting is one sign of a continuing passion and excitement for the game in the West Indies •West Indies embrace T20 but ignore Test cricket at their peril On Wednesday, Jermaine…
