Cayman Islands DCFS staff honoured for Adult Special Needs work
Several Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) caregivers were recently recognised for advancing the department’s Adult Special Needs Programme. Nominated earlier this year, eight staffers received awards from the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association of the Cayman Islands (ADACI), at…
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US: Abuse in nursing homes unreported despite law
AP From Newsmax More than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police, says a government audit that faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law requiring immediate…
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RCIPS Warns All Residents to Avoid Water-Related Activities This Weekend, 9-10 September Due to the effects of Hurricane Irma the sea conditions around the islands are expected to deteriorate dramatically beginning tomorrow. The RCIPS strenuously warns all residents against ANY…
Cayman Islands’ teens earn “Passports to Success”
A celebration of achievements, and of the potential of eight young people, took place last week at graduation of the National Workplace Development Agency’s (NWDA) latest “Passport2Success” (P2S) cohort. Held on Friday (1st September 2017), this was the 23rd successful…
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International experts to gather for Internet Week Guyana in October
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Internet experts from around the world will be in Georgetown in October for Internet Week Guyana, a high-level technology conference focused on national and regional development issues. Hosted by the Guyana ministry of public telecommunications, the meeting…
Top universities ‘incredibly slow’ to take more disadvantaged students – report
By Emmanuel Akinwotu From The Guardian UK • Study of England’s leading universities finds only marginal increases in access for students from disadvantaged backgrounds • LSE’s use of ‘contextualised data’ highlighted for its No1 ranking England’s leading universities have made…
The myth of ugly design
By Andrew McDermott From Web Design Depot Have you heard the dangerous lie that’s going around? It goes like this: “Design isn’tthat important. I have an ugly site and it sells like crazy. It outperforms the ‘well designed’ site I…
Google releases millions of bad drawings for you (and your AI) to paw through
By Devin Coldewey from TechCrunch Back in November, Google showcased a few of its funky machine learning experiments, and among them was Quick, Draw! (their bang, not mine) — a game where you sketch something and an image recognition system…
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Man scooping up handfuls of mosquitoes is the stuff of nightmares BY BRIAN KOERBER From Mashable One mosquito inside your home is enough to drive anyone insane, never mind a handful. A clip filmed in the coastal town of Taganrog,…
The Caribbean Association of Banks announces winner of the prestigious 100% Chartered Bankers MBA scholarship
The Caribbean Association of Banks (CAB) is excited to announce the winner of a 100% Scholarship award to pursue the Chartered Banker MBA programme with a leading UK Business School, the Bangor University. In collaboration with the Bangor University Business…
