Travel like an A-lister!
By Sarah Turner From Daily Mail UK The converted Caribbean sugar mill where Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, the Beckhams and Kate Moss holiday Cotton House in Mustique has become a Caribbean must for the elite Fans of the property include: Cheryl Fernandez-Versini,…
Barbados: Lower energy costs at the core
By Barbados Business Authority from Nationnews Should Barbados pursue a 100 per cent renewable energy system? Is a 100 per cent renewable energy system the answer to Barbados’ energy problems? Prominent German university Professor Olav Hohmeyer thinks so, and he…
Evaluating Cairo+20 and looking toward 2015
By Ana Abelenda From Friday Files During the First session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean that took place in Montevideo, 12-15 August 2013, AWID spoke to women’s rights activists from the…
China grants more educational scholarships to The Bahamas
From Bahamaislandsinfo NASSAU, Bahamas — Thirteen Bahamians, seven of whom are students of The College of The Bahamas and The College’s Confucius Institute, have accepted scholarships to study in the People’s Republic of China during the 2013-2014 academic year. The…
Death wears bling: the glory of London’s Caribbean funerals
From The Spectator Ian Thomson applauds the grand rituals of West Indian funerals in his review of Charlie Phillips’s How Great Thou Art How Great Thou Art: Fifty Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London Charlie Phillips King/Otchere Productions, pp.130,…
It’s official: Giant snook is all-time record
By Bill Sargent From Florida Today Ward Michaels never doubted for a minute that his catch of an enormous 591/2-pound Pacific black snook last March at Puerto Quepos in Costa Rica would be accepted as an all-tackle world record. “I…
Unpleasant dance with CCJ by Jamaica and T&T
By Rickey Singh From Jamaica Observer Some 52 years after Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago formally severed the colonial relationship with Britain, they maintain a strange preference for the Privy Council in London as their final appellate institution instead of…
Why just one exam in labor is ordinarily enough
By Doula Delight From Bahama islands info Ordinarily, the only necessary vaginal exam in labor is the one that determines if the mother is indeed in active labor. It is true, that in cases of arrested labor, additional exams may…
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Cayman Islands Finance Minister delivers the government’s Strategic Policy Statement for financial year ending 2016
Government of the Cayman Islands Strategic Policy Statement for the Financial Year Ending 30th June 2016 Address by the Hon Minister for Finance & Economic Development, Hon. Marco Archer 26th November 2014 Introduction Madam Speaker, the Government’s 2015/16 Strategic Policy…
More on Ebola preparedness from Cayman Islands Ministry of Health
Although there are no reported cases of Ebola neither in Cayman Islands nor in the Caribbean, local medical personnel and the Ministry of Health are continuing preparations for the unlikely event of an Ebola (EVD) patient requiring care. Dr. James…
