Egypt plans to dig new Suez Canal
From Otago Daily Times Egypt plans to build a new Suez Canal alongside the existing 145-year-old historic waterway in a multi-billion dollar project to expand trade along the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia. The project, to be run…
Cayman Islands: Vantage reports 2nd 1/4 results
From BYM Marine & Maritime News Vantage Drilling Company (“Vantage” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT: VTG) reports net income for the three months ended June 30, 2014 of $15.1 million or $0.05 per diluted share, excluding charges for the early…
Belize U-15 female football team leaves for the Cayman Islands
From The San Pedro Sun Belize’s national Under-15 female football team traveled on Monday, August 4th to the Cayman Islands for the inaugural Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) U-15 Female Championship scheduled to take place…
Time to move forward
From The Barbados Advocate No more excuses for not lifting your country out of this global financial crisis. This was one of the messages that Founding Partner of Riverwood Capital, Nicholas Brathwaite, sent out during his presentation on “Innovation, Entrepreneurship…
NYPD stories (3): All involve officers – none good
#1. NYPD officer arrested for beating woman after drunkenly breaking in to her apartment By Caroline Bankoff From New York Mag In mid-June, NYPD officer Eugene Donnelly was given the department’s second-highest honor, the Police Combat Cross, for arresting a…
Risk of Ebola in Caribbean low, says CARPHA
By Toni Frederick From West Indies News Network St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): The risk of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) being imported to the Caribbean is low, according to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). In a statement issued…
Russian tourists stranded on vacation after travel companies go bust
From Mashable (AP) MOSCOW — Last week, tens of thousands of Russians sunning themselves on Italian beaches and Turkish resorts received an unpleasant surprise: Their tour companies had gone bust, stranding them and forcing them to pay double for a…
Funeral home sues family of teen killed at Caribbean Carnival parade
By Marco Chown Oved From The Star Rueshad Grant’s grieving relatives agreed to expensive funeral after they were told that a lawsuit would pay for everything. The family of the Brampton teen killed during last year’s Toronto Caribbean Carnival is…
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,…
Drought forces water rationing in Colombia
By W. Alejandro Sanchez This Sunday, August 10, the Colombian government will establish a new water rationing system in various departments throughout the country. The goal is to conserve water, as a drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon is…
