iNews Briefs & Community Events
Community Events MAY 5 Special Olympics Cayman Islands Aquatics Special Olympics Cayman Islands invites you to the 2015 Annual National Games and Week of Awareness. The next event is Tuesday (5 May) at 5:30pm at the Lions Pool where athletes…
‘Caribbean Architectural Mode’ relevant in today’s climate
By McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Aid workers should read through archaeologists’ notebooks on house-building A paper published in Human Ecology, by co-author Dr Alice Samson, (British Academy Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), suggests aid workers who…
Signs of recovery in Caribbean golf market – new KPMG study
KPMG Caribbean Golf Overview This week sees the launch of the 2015 Caribbean Golf Overview from KPMG’s Golf Advisory Practice, at the annual Caribbean Hotel & Resort Investment Summit in Florida. The report, one which provides invaluable figures for key…
iNews Briefs & Community Events
Community Events APRIL 29 Amin Mohammed Memorial Steel Band Competition The Amin Mohammed Memorial Steel Band Competition is Wednesday (29 Apr) at Mary Miller Hall at 630pm. Police Welfare Committee Fundraiser The Police Welfare Committee is inviting all government departments…
Voice of the islands: Oonya Kempadoo has a pan-Caribbean perspective
From Repeating Islands In this article writer Oonya Kempadoo defines the Caribbean as a place with shared experiences but simultaneously contradictory: “We are one and we are specific, competing island nations at the same time. Different languages add to the…
Russian stores pull Holocaust graphic novel ahead of WWII anniversary
From Business Insider Moscow (AFP) – Russian bookstores were hastily removing an award-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from their shelves on Monday, reportedly because its cover shows a Nazi swastika. “Maus”, by American artist and author Art Spiegelman won…
Year 3 students in Cayman Islands celebrate their love of classroom book clubs
From Cayman Islands Ministry of Education On Wednesday 1 April, Minister of Education, Honourable Tara Rivers, along with Acting Chief Officer, Christen Suckoo, joined 110 Year 3 students from five classes in four different schools to share their love of…
Cayman Islands Commonwealth Essay Winners celebrated
Twenty eight primary and high school students bagged prizes in the Royal Commonwealth Society 2014 essay competition. Top winner overall was St. Ignatius Catholic School with 19 awards, followed by Cayman Prep and High School with seven awards. Two students…
Five Caribbean poets shortlisted for Hollick Arvon Prize
From Bocas News Poets from three Caribbean countries in the running for region’s leading emerging writers’ award The judges for the 2015 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize have announced a shortlist of five, chosen from among the ten previously longlisted…
Westhampton Beach Books & Books named Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year
By Priscila Korb from Patch The store received the honor earlier this week. Westhampton Beach Bookstore Named Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year Publishers Weekly recently announced that they have named Books & Books in Westhampton Beach as Bookseller of…





