Two Visual Scholarships awarded
The management board and staff of the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) and Deutsche Bank (Cayman) Ltd. would like to congratulate two students, 19 year old Simon Tatum and 18 year old Lorena Morejon, who have recently been…
South Florida’s Jamaica Independence 2014 Essay Competition winner
From South Florida Caribbean News SOUTH FLORIDA – The winner of the annual Jamaica Independence Essay Competition 2014, Miss Ashleigh Chin received her award winning plaque from Consul General Franz Hall recently, at the office of the Consulate General of…
Letter from Cayman Islands NCVO inviting you to Radio/Telethon
NCVO’S ANNUAL RADIO/TELETHON The NCVO is a non-profit charitable organisation that is dedicated to the care, education and well –being of children and families in need of support in the Cayman Islands. The NCVO will be holding its 35th Annual…
iNews Briefs
BARK programme launched to rehabilitate Cayman prisoners Bonding and Rehabilitation through K-9s (BARK) is a programme that has just been launched to help prisoners rehabilitate through bonding with unwanted dogs. The programme is also good for the dog as it…
Quest on the Marl Road to have book signing
Kathleen Bodden-Harris will be in Grand Cayman the 1 – 3 Oct. Books & Books will be hosting a book signing for the promotion of her book “Quest on the Marl Road”. The book’s cover has been re-vamped, revised and…
New name for Cayman Book Fair
CayWriters hosted its very first book fair in October 2013 for authors in Cayman known as the Home Grown Book Fair. The event’s name was recently changed to the Cayman Islands Book Fair. GT Public Library This year’s book fair…
Airplane Cutaways, Both IRL and Hollywood-Style
By hipstomp / Rain Noe From core77 0aircraftcutaways-001.jpg Because our view of an aircraft interior is typically what you see above, it’s kind of cool to see, below, what we’re actually sitting in: 0aircraftcutaways-002.jpg Now you see why airplane cargo…
20 drunk trees that need to go home
By Brian Koerber From Mashable You know the type. Everyone is just hanging out, having a good time, drinking a couple beers, and that one person goes a little overboard and ruins the fun for everyone else. We’ve all been…
Editorial: Memories of Ivan
By Joan Wilson Now we are at that horrible time again – Hurricane Season – and this is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan that hit us on September 11th 2004. The day after my 70th birthday. Yes I am…
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: Why is it so loved?
“Many people turned away from the establishment of the Church to Gibran,” says Professor Juan Cole, historian of the Middle East at the University of Michigan who has translated several of Gibran’s works from Arabic. “He offered a dogma-free universal…