Art Commenting on Smartphone Life
BY RAIN NOE From Core77 The drawbacks of the little glass rectangle in our pockets When it comes to the unintended consequences of technology, no one could have foreseen the social side effects of smartphone usage. Marrying a small screen…
Update on Human Rights violation in the Cayman Islands
From Dr Leo Raznovich Visitor visa: the Immigration Authority has agreed on Monday 7th September to grant me a visitor status for two weeks. This regularises my situation until my next planned departure to the U.S. and Europe. Upon my…
Gender reassignment surgery OK’d over parents’ objection
By Lizzy McLellan, From The Legal Intelligencer A Bucks County judge has denied two parents’ emergency petition for limited guardianship of a transgender woman, allowing her to proceed with a scheduled gender reassignment surgery. In their petition, Klaus and Ingrid…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Finally, Rowley as T&T prime minister
By Rickey Singh From Barbados Nation News THE 65-year-old volcanologist,Dr Keith Rowley, who is now the new Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, succeeded in upstaging all the professional pollsters and organisations at Monday’s general elections when he accurately forecast…
Missouri man sentenced to life in prison over marijuana is set free
By Matt Ferner National Reporter, From The Huffington Post “The Jeff Mizanskey case simply shows that the war on drugs has reached the pinnacle of absurdity.” Jeff Mizanskey, a 61-year-old man who was serving life in prison for nonviolent marijuana…
British Airways plane catches fire on Las Vegas runway
From Richmond Times Dispatch LAS VEGAS (AP) — An engine on a London-bound British Airways jet caught fire Tuesday while the plane was preparing to take off from Las Vegas, shooting flames from the side of the jet and forcing…
The Editor Speaks: Food poisoning at schools is very serious
The food poisoning of over 100 children and teachers at the Red Bay Primary School last week is very serious. Just supposing someone, especially a child, had died? Quite rightly the Department of Environmental Health (DoEH) has recommended the Mary…
Cayman Islands Court makes first fair value determination in merger dispute
By Tony Heaver-Wren, Andrew Jackson and Simon Raftopoulos From Appleby The Cayman Islands legislature introduced the statutory merger and consolidation regime which is now found in Part XVI of the Companies Law (2013 Revision) in May 2009. Since then, the…
Opposition wins in Trinidad and Tobago
From Caribbean News Now PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Preliminary results in the Trinidad and Tobago general election held on Monday indicate that the opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has defeated the ruling People’s Partnership coalition by 23 seats to…
Guyana and Venezuela – peace under law
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean Digital Network Source: Caribbean News Now A search of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s statements posted on his official website shows no mention of anything he said after a meeting last week with…
