WashPost: McConnell fast-tracking stalled US Senate Health Bill to CBO
From Newsmax A new and revised version of the troubled Senate healthcare bill may be shipped off to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for review this week,The Washington Post reports. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists told the newspaper that Senate…
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J’can Gospel film wins big at Caribbean Film Festival in Hollywood
By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston From Jamaica Gleaner The BarriVision-produced Christian movie 70 x Seven , copped top awards at the recently concluded CaribbeanLens Film Festival in Hollywood, California. The Gleaner caught up with writer and director Judith Falloon-Reid, who shared her…
Feeling the pinch
Passengers scream in horror as live CRABS flood an airport baggage carousel after dozens escape from a container By Hannah Crouch From The Sun UK The footage was uploaded to Facebook and is believed to have been taken at Lynden…
Unique bird experiences
Thousands enjoy unique bird experiences on St Martin and throughout the Caribbean From Soualiga Newsday GRAND CASE, St. Martin – Thousands of people throughout the region had fun experiences with birds and nature over the past month during the Caribbean…
Caribbean Export expands the Regional Angel Investor Network (RAIN) into the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 28th June, 2017. The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has commenced their expansion of the Angel investment footprint within the Dominican Republic and Haiti following the hosting of the first Bi-National Angel Investment workshop in…
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Trinidadian honoured by the inaugural Barbados Internet Governance Forum
By Caribbean Telecommunications Union CAVE HILL, Barbados – A Trinidadian, Ms. Bernadette Lewis, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) was honoured for her contribution to Caribbean Internet governance at Opening Ceremony of the inaugural Barbados Internet Governance Forum (IGF)…
Census Bureau: Selected Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean Ancestry Groups making their mark: Nigerians outpace U.S. educational and occupational levels
NEWS PROVIDED BY U.S. Census Bureau WASHINGTON, JUNE 28, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — About 61 percent of people with Nigerian ancestry age 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher — more than twice the U.S. rate of 28.5 percent,…
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Enroll into “the university without walls,” hotel legend urges
By CHTA MIAMI, Florida – Hoteliers and aspiring young hospitality professionals need to appreciate the critical role which the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) can play in their success, asserts respected Caribbean hotelier Sir Royston Hopkin. Describing the association as…
Cayman Islands police: Disrupt burglary in progress/Recover electronics, etc
From RCIPS June 28 2017 Police Disrupt Commercial Burglary-in-Progress on North Church Street Early This Morning, 28 June; One Man Arrested Just past 12AM this morning, Wednesday, 28 June, police responded to a burglary-in-progress at a business on North Church…
Gangland killer transferred from [Cayman Islands] to serve sentence in UK under a 19th century colonial law
By Andy Lines From Daily Mirror UK Osbourne Douglas, 30, was flown from the Cayman Islands to Heathrow handcuffed and under heavy police guard before going on to one of UK’s highest security jails A gangland killer has been transferred…
