iNews Briefs & Community Events
NOTE: See also Community Events listed in DATE ORDER below articles and notices Cayman Brac Public Invited to LA Events With the LA meeting on Cayman Brac, 5-7 September 2018, Hon. Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands,…
Cayman Islands: Camana Bay encourages a re-connection with Reading through Literacy Month
Literacy Month returns to Camana Bay this September to celebrate and encourage a love of reading among youth across the Cayman Islands. This year, the theme focuses on mysteries, covering everything from the 1890s classic series The Adventures of Sherlock…
The role of fathers in overweight prevention: an analysis of a Caribbean cohort
J. A. Smith (a1), K. D. Rocke (a1), S. M. Charles (a2) (a3), S. M. Chang (a1) … https://doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2018.12 Published online: 28 August 2018 Abstract BackgroundFamily-based strategies to reduce the risk of overweight in childhood are needed in the Caribbean….
Jamie Oliver has been inspired by Jamaican culture without having any respect for its history – that’s why it’s cultural appropriation
By Marianne Miles From The Independent UK Can Caribbean recipes be adapted and modernised? Of course. But you cannot claim a historic traditional term and apply it to your product for profit Jamaica’s catchphrase is “Wi likkle but we tallawah”,…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
NOTE: See also Community Events listed in DATE ORDER below articles and notices DLP to Visit Cayman Brac Representatives from the Department of Labour and Pensions (DLP) will visit Cayman Brac on Thursday, 2 August 2018 to assist clients…
Dr. Seuss had writer’s block. Then, he spotted the Lorax in Africa
BY MARK KAUFMAN From Mashable In the early 1970s, Dr. Seuss was struggling. Amid the growing environmentalist movement in the United States, punctuated by President Richard Nixon’s creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the establishment of the now-beleaguered Endangered…
Jacob Ross, the Caribbean Chekov
By Keith Jardim From newsDay tt Jacob Ross’s recently published Tell No One About This: Collected Stories 1975-2017 is probably the most important and well written gathering of stories ever to appear in the English-language Caribbean, maybe in any language…
Syria: The Evolution Revolution By Peter Polack
From U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center magazine – Posted by permission from the Author
Hot tubs, Cayman Islands, yawning hosts
By Andrea Behling From Channel3000 The stories behind these 1980s covers of Madison Magazine October 1980 Our staff kept coming back to this October 1980 cover of a greasy-haired, shirtless man dressed in dirty cut-off jean shorts, smoking a pipe…
The Story of Kyle
From Snopes One boy’s befriending of an outcast new kid at school stops him from committing suicide. EXAMPLE: [Collected on the Internet, 2000] One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my…









