New Director appointed to the Board of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
From CIMA GRAND CAYMAN (Wednesday, 6 August 2014) Ms. Judith Watler attended her first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) today, 6 August 2014. Ms. Watler’s appointment as a Director of the Board…
Cayman Islands Junior Achievers off to Ontario, Canada
The world’s top youth leaders will gather at the 2014 Next Generation Leaders Forum from August 17-22 at Trent University in Peterborough, ON. Students from across the globe will connect with experts from business and academia to develop new perspectives,…
Tesla Model S is driving around Grand Cayman
The Tesla Model S has been on sale a year in the USA and there is now one driving around Grand Cayman’s roads. Michael Mandish took delivery of the vehicle this week from Cayman Automotive. So how good is the…
Mermaids are real! (No they’re not!)
From Epoch Times Mermaid is ‘Real,’ Found in India, Mexico, Pakistan is Fake: Actually From ‘Pirates of Caribbean’ By Jack Phillips A mermaid did not appear on either beach in Porbandar, India, or in Pakistan’s Karachi. The post, which also…
2014 Atlantic hurricane season: Where we stand by the numbers
From WDSU News NEW ORLEANS —We’re a ways off from being at the halfway point of the Atlantic Basin hurricane season, which began June 1 and ends November 30. The Atlantic Basin includes the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and…
Cuba’s Balsero crisis still an open wound, 20 years on
By Ivet González From IPS HAVANA, Aug 6 2014 (IPS) – Tears, silence and evasive responses are the reactions from Cubans when they are asked about the “balseros” or rafters crisis; two decades after an exodus without parallel in Latin…
Grand Cayman: Manuela Jungo found a tropical paradise for kitesurfing
By Manuela Jungo and James Boulding From iksurfmag “Maunuela Jungo heads to the Cayman Islands to check out the kite scene over there and discovers a warm water paradise for the European winter!” While most of my friends in Europe…
Ministry of Tourism to create more Junkanoo events
From bahama islands info The Valley Boys paid tribute to its former late leader Winston ‘Gus’ Cooper at the Ministry of Tourism Junkanoo Summer Festival, held in July 2014, downtown Nassau. (BIS Photo/Derek Smith) NASSAU, The Bahamas – Full-scale Junkanoo…
Five adult-only Caribbean resorts to dream about
By Corinne McDermott, TheLoop.ca From CP24 Five adult-only Caribbean resorts to dream about Sometimes you want to get away, but not from the weather — from the kids! There are plenty of Adults-only resorts in the Caribbean which cater to…
Remnants of Hurricane Bertha to batter UK with rain and high winds
From BBC A driver was trapped in his car for more than an hour because of flooding in Cambridgeshire on Friday Homes in Cambridgeshire were flooded after heavy rain Rescue crews tried to restart cars which had stalled in the…





