Cayman Islands YMCA develops teen leaders
Forty-five teens developed their leadership skills and learned the importance of social responsibility this summer as part of the YMCA’s Counselor in Training (CIT) programme. Counselor in Training is part of the Y’s signature Teen Leaders programme which provides a…
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Ogier sponsors Junior Achievement Cayman Islands
Ogier has donated $2,000 to support a long-running Cayman charity which focuses on helping young people to get ready for the workplace with programmes on work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Junior Achievement of the Cayman Islands has been running…
Cayman Islands to pass new trade mark law
From stobbs The Cayman Islands is expected to pass a new trade mark law next month, for implementation some time in 2017. The new law will end the practice of protecting marks in the Cayman Islands by extending an existing…
UK: Caribbean photography exhibition begins Black History Month at the Belgrade Theatre
From Warwick Black History Month celebrations are kicking off at the Belgrade Theatre with the launch of a Caribbean photography exhibition; Embodied Islands running from 4 – 28 October. The exhibition has been put together and curated by Associate Professor…
St Lucia reports flooding, power outages as storm impacts
From Caribbean360 CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Thursday September 29, 2016 – Thousands were without electricity in St. Lucia, rivers overflowed their banks, and several communities were flooded last night and into today. And Tropical Storm Matthew which passed through the Windward…
One dead, as Tropical Storm Matthew passes through Windwards
By Kenton Chance From Wired Ja Online News KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Sept 28, CMC – A fourth form secondary school student died Wednesday night after he was crushed by a boulder as he tried to alleviate flooding in his home…
Jason Jeffers and Jonathan Ali, Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival
BY JEREMY KAY From Screen Daily The founder of the inaugural Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival and his friend, director of programming, preview this week’s event. Jason Jeffers and Jonathan Ali, Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival Jeffers, a Barbados native,…
Hurricane Hunters find hurricane-force winds in Matthew; wind shear attacking storm
By Jeff Masters From Weather Underground Tropical Storm Watches are posted for the ABC islands of the Netherlands Antilles—Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao—as Tropical Storm Matthew advances westwards at 16 mph across the eastern Caribbean. An Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft…
Cayman Islands: Robbery of Grocery Store Yesterday Evening, 28 September, in George Town
From RCIPS: Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:20 PM Just before 7PM last night, Wednesday, 28 September, the 9-1-1 Communications Centre dispatched police to the report of a robbery on Mary Street in George Town at Clem’s Grocery Store. A few…
Cayman Islands: Young Caymanian Leaders Foundation announces Sp
September 2016: The Young Caymanian Leaders Foundation (YCLF) has announced the special guest speaker for the annual awards ceremony as former U.S Navy SEAL, Robert O’Neill. Themed ‘Step Up & Stand Out,’ the Young Caymanian Leadership Awards (YCLA) programme will…
