Two women from Arkansas to fill rental truck with supplies, drive to Houston
By David Lippman From KTHV 11 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – People all over the country, and especially in central Arkansas, want to help the victims of Harvey, whether they were affected by hurricane-force winds or relentless flooding. Many, though,…
Dance in memory of Cayman couple
From Farnham Herald IAN and Pamela Mansell and her sister Marlene would have been the first on the dance floor at the recent concert given by Out of the Shadows as a celebration of their lives, so tragically cut short…
The 4 craziest details from the Samsung heir bribery case
By COLIN DAILEDA From Mashable Lee Jae-yong is the billionaire heir who runs one of the most powerful companies in tech—and on Friday, he was convicted of corruption. The Samsung Group vice chairman is effectively the chairman of the company…
New regional partnership for water security to protect human health
By Deandrea Hamilton Trinidad&Tobago – Port of Spain – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on initiatives related to water resources and human health. The…
L.A. City Council replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day on city calendar
By David Zahniser From Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to eliminate Columbus Day from the city calendar, siding with activists who view the explorer as a symbol of genocide for native peoples in North America…
Business models will drive the future of autonomous vehicles
By S. Somasega From TechCrunch “The technology is essentially here… We have machines that can make a bunch of quick decisions that could drastically reduce traffic fatalities, drastically improve the efficiency of our transportation grid, and help solve things like…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
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,…
Dramatic rescue: ‘Miracle Baby’ survived Harvey by clinging to dead mom
By David A. Patten From Newsmax A 3-year-old infant clinging to her dead mother’s body was plucked from flood waters just seconds before being swept under a flooded trestle as the rains of Harvey pummeled Southeast Texas. The toddler’s survival…
Cayman Islands Red Bay Primary Library gets a makeover
This past weekend, dedicated volunteers from Prospect Community Group (PCG) gave the school library a facelift, and had fun doing so. On Saturday 26 August, 2017, volunteers from the Prospect Community gave up theirSaturday to lend a hand at the…
Tropical Storm Irma to strengthen, track across Atlantic this week; Will it affect the US?
By Faith Eherts, From AccuWeather While the Gulf Coast continues to deal with the devastating impacts of Harvey, emergency managers in the United States have another tropical threat to monitor by the name of Irma. Far across the Atlantic, just…







