Cayman Island winners in regional Rotary Storybook contest
Three primary school children broke through a chrysalis-hard literary competition involving 102 entries from eight schools on Grand Cayman and emerged victors in the third annual Rotary Butterfly Storybook competition. Winners 10 year old Ellie Nickason, of Cayman Prep and…
The Caribbean Writer announces Volume 28 Prize Winners
The Caribbean Writer – the University of the Virgin Islands’ international, refereed, literary journal with a Caribbean focus – announced its annual prize winners for Volume 28, which highlights time, place and memories. Topping the list of prizes is The…
Call for Papers: “The Caribbean Sea, Caribbean Identity and Caribbean Development”
“The Caribbean Sea, Caribbean Identity and Caribbean Development” is the organizing theme for a Special Issue of Social & Economic Studies Journal of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies (University of the West Indies, Mona). This…
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Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015: “A Shtetl in the Caribbean”and “Poetry is an Island”
From Repeating Islands The 4th edition of the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam (Curaçao IFFR) will take place from March 25-29. The list of Caribbean films will include A Shtetl in the Caribbean by Sherman de Jesus and Poetry is…
Marlee’s Adventure in London: An awesome narrated, illustrated kids book
[prMac.com] George Town, Cayman Islands – Marlee’s Adventures today is thrilled to announce the release of Marlee’s Adventure in London 1.0, their new children’s educational title developed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Following the enormous success of “Marlee…
Jamaica: The birthplace of James Bond
By Ursula Petula Barzey From Caribbean & Co. Ian Fleming might not have known that the allure of spy Agent 007, the character he created in 1953 would last for more than half a century. Or that over 60 years…
New Caribbean Book: “Wide Sargasso Sea”
Caribbean culture and history From crossref-it.info The naming of the West Indies Wide Sargasso Sea is set on two Caribbean islands, Jamaica and a ‘honeymoon island’. This is not named but is very like Dominica, where Jean Rhys was born….
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January events at Camana Bay
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman (Thursday 8 January): From gaining a stamp for India in your culinary passport to sleeping in and serving up a homemade brunch to cheering on stand-up paddlers as they race across the finish line to dining…
Tributes paid to the late John McNamee [was due to visit son in Cayman Islands]
From Leinster Express John McNamee lived for books, and lived for his family, according to friends who paid tributes following his sudden death last Sunday January 3. Portlaoise menswear trader Alan Flynn was stunned. “I am absolutely distraught, I had…
Mystery of Oscar Wilde’s wife’s death solved
From Irish Central The 116-year-old mystery surrounding the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife may now finally be solved. The grandson of the Irish writer believes he has found the reason his grandmother died tragically at the age of 40 just…
