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Cayman Islands Alex Panton Foundation receives enormous community support at launch events
Hundreds came out to support the launch of the Alex Panton Foundation 2 recent events, the ‘Hidden’ short-film movie premiere and a Youth Mental Health symposium. “We are so incredibly grateful for the support that the community has shown,” Alex…
FINDRPRO – A new app for the Bahamas receives LINK-Caribbean investment
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 02, 2018 — A new mobile application called Findrpro has received $5,000 USD investment via the LINK-Caribbean programme’s 5-5-5 pitch competition. In the recently held Bahamas edition of the competition, sister co-founders Yamel Marshall, and Janay Pyfrom-Symonette…
Oscars 2018: The complete list of winners (and losers) from the Academy Awards
By Zach Epstein From BGR The 90th annual Academy Awards show took place last night, and there were definitely some exciting twists that most people did not see coming. In fact, some of the winners of the 2018 Oscars’ most…
African Caribbean leaders invited to inaugural forum in London
From The Voice UK ON FRIDAY April 27th, the African-Caribbean Alumni Network (A-CAN) is hosting the Inaugural ACS Leaders Forum at City Hall, home of the Mayor of London. Launched in late 2017, A-CAN was created to bring together 10,000’s…
Negative CFT advice on St. Maarten 2018 budget
From The Dutch Caribbean Legal Portal THE HAGUE–The draft 2018 budget of Country St. Maarten does not comply with the norms of the Kingdom Law on Financial Supervision, and therefore cannot count on a positive advice from the Committee for…
Oscars: Ryan Seacrest avoids #MeToo mentions, lands fewer A-listers on red carpete
By Debra Birnbaum Variety From Yahoo News “Welcome to the historic Oscars…. It promises to be a very special evening.” With that announcement, Ryan Seacrest, clad in a navy-and-black tuxedo, kicked off E!’s red carpet coverage of the Academy Awards,…
Antigua and other Caribbean islands urged to monitor water resources
From Jamaica Observer BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) says while there is little concern over drought for the majority of the Caribbean until the end of the dry season in May 2018, at…
This baby trying pizza for the first time ever resembles an epiphany
BY ISOBEL HAMILTON 9 HOURS AGO Theologians can keep arguing about what constitutes a religious epiphany, but we’re pretty sure this is the next best thing. Podcaster Jody Avirgan tweeted a picture of his young daughter after trying pizza for…
Putin only follows 18 people on Twitter, and one of them has been dead for 5 years — here’s the full list
By Alexandra Ma From Business Insider Russian President Vladimir Putin only follows 18 people on Twitter. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin While no world leader uses Twitter quite like Donald Trump, it’s still an arena where power and prestige are distributed. A presidential…
LatAm adopts trailblazing binding environmental information agreement
PRESS RELEASE – ECLAC Today [4 March, 2018] the representatives of 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries who were gathered in San Jose, Costa Rica adopted the first binding regional agreement to protect the rights of access to information, public…
