Companies are invited to bid for Cayman Islands used tyres – AGAIN
The Government of the Cayman Islands, through the Department of Environmental Health (DEH), is inviting bids from qualified Tenderers for the prompt processing (on-site or off-site at an approved local site/facility) and removal of all the “Used Tyres” accumulated at…
Observing Vaccination Week – Cayman Islands joins the Americas
The Cayman Islands join other member states of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), i.e. North, Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, for the 13th anniversary of Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA). This year, Vaccination Week takes…
Cayman businessman Ian Kilpatrick receives highest Captive Industry Award
George Town, Grand Cayman, 21 April 2015 – Ian Kilpatrick, founder of Advantage International Management, has received the captive insurance industry’s most prestigious award, the Captive Insurance Companies Association’s (CICA) Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Kilpatrick was presented with the award…
Caribbean News iBusiness iCommunity iEnvironment iFood iLocal News iScience iWorld News Manager's Choice News
Cayman Islands take ‘can’t beat ’em, eat ’em’ stance on lionfish
By Aileen Torres-Bennett / Reuters, from Taipei Times In a reef just off the popular USS Kittiwake dive site in Grand Cayman, hunters armed with spears seek out lionfish — an invasive species so destructive that authorities want them caught…
U.S. banks blacklist Belize – PM Barrow cries into the wind, claims “damnation by innuendo”
From The Belize Times Belize’s economy which is already on life-support and barely kept alive by the slew of loans made by the Barrow Administration has received another heavy blow with the announcement that United States’ banks could soon end…
Caribbean News iBusiness iCommunity iEnvironment iFinance iLocal News iWorld News News Publisher's Choice
Caribbean and Central American countries formalize partnership for catastrophe risk insurance
From The World Bank Nicaragua is the first Central American country to sign up to the insurance WASHINGTON, April 18, 2015 – The Council of Ministers of Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN) and CCRIF SPC…
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…
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,…
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…
