The Editor Speaks: MAY you open your hearts to children …. and fill me with music
MAY is Child Month here in the Cayman Islands and the government theme this year is “Open your heart to children”. The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands have also designated May to children, Their theme is “I…
This Woman Is forecast to be the biggest winner of the U.K. Election
By Megan Gibson/Edinburgh From TIME Nicola Sturgeon and her Scottish Nationalist Party are predicted to wipe out all opposition in Scotland and become the United Kingdom’s third biggest party “Oh my god, it’s Nicola Sturgeon,” a twenty-something woman in a…
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‘Caribbean Architectural Mode’ relevant in today’s climate
By McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Aid workers should read through archaeologists’ notebooks on house-building A paper published in Human Ecology, by co-author Dr Alice Samson, (British Academy Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), suggests aid workers who…
PJ Patterson challenges CARICOM
By Caribbean Export Development Agency MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica – Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has challenged the Caribbean to embrace the warming of relations between the United States of America and Cuba as opening up new opportunities for the…
In 1997, Wired offered 101 ideas for saving Apple – which ones actually came to pass?
By Brad Reed From BGR Apple today is on top of the world. 18 years ago, however, it was on the brink of bankruptcy. At that time, Wired wrote an article that proposed 101 different ideas for rescuing Apple. When…
Ben E King: R&B legend dies at 76
From BBC R&B and soul singer Ben E King, best known for the classic song Stand By Me, has died at the age of 76. King started his career in the late 1950s with The Drifters, singing hits including There…
President Obama’s other Caribbean blunder
By Arthur Piccolo From News Americas NEW YORK, NY, Fri. May 1, 2015: What would Alexander Hamilton think if he knew … That on his homeland of St. Kitts & Nevis the he adopted as his new homeland and helped…
Baltimore riots remind Caribbean Diaspora that black lives matter
By Janine Mendes-Franco From Global Voices For Trinidad bloggers living in the United States, the riots in Baltimore is the latest chapter of a seemingly endless story of police aggression towards young black men in the US. Protests and looting…
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The Editor Speaks: Is it ‘normal’ for women to be insulted by government ministers?
In the Caribbean perhaps so…? Following the “gross mistreatment of a professional colleague, characterized by undertones of prejudice in regard to gender, race and nationality” – Cayman Compass Editorial Board December 19 2014 – we now have another. This time…
Ramsaran relieved from duties as [Guyana] Health Minister
From Guyana Times …Westford appointed to act Health Minister, Dr Bheri Ramsaran has been relieved from his duties by President Donald Ramotar following the “distasteful” remarks he uttered against rights activist Sherlina Nageer last week. There has been intense public…
