Book donations breathe LIFE into Cayman Islands’ classroom libraries
Sir John A. Cumber Primary School (SJACPS) has accepted a donation of over 3500 reading books, believed to be the largest recorded gift of reading materials given to a Government school in Cayman. The contribution was organised by charitable organisation…
Scientists develop ‘Electronic Skin’ that can feel
From Newsmax Scientists have found a way to power an experimental kind of electronic skin using solar energy in a further step towards the development of prosthetic limbs or robots with a sense of touch. Teams around the world are…
Trump slashes his way down an isolationist path
From The Philadelphia Tribune The News America Now article, published online and titled “Trump’s BiG Forget You to the Caribbean and Latin America,” has got a lot of people riled up because it just adds to the slew of things…
Wright Electric unveils its commercial electric plane business
By Josh Constine From TechCrunch Gas is the biggest cost for airlines. The easiest way to reduce these costs? Don’t use gas at all. That was the pitch from Wright Electric, a startup building a commercial passenger plane that runs…
The Cayman Islands: A very convenient truth in financial oversight
By Mary Barzee-Flores and Read McCaffrey, From Daily Business Review The Cayman Islands suffers from an undeserved bum rap. Many people automatically associate the Caymans with a haven for tax cheats and financial scams. However, the notion that the Cayman…
Coal ash: ‘Why in the world would we be importing it?’
By The Associated Press From Caribbean Business RICHMOND, Va. – Shipping containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India have come into the U.S. through the Port of Virginia as foreign companies find a market for the same…
EUR 24 M in support to the Caribbean’s private sector
From the European Union Bridgetown, BARBADOS, March 23rd, 2017. The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the European Union (EU) have signed the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) agreement worth EUR 24 Million to support regional private sector development….
The world’s deepest oil well is over 40,000 feet deep
By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist In the world’s deepest gold mine, workers will venture 2.5 miles (4 km) below the Earth’s surface to extract from a 30-inch (0.8m) wide vein of gold-rich ore. While these depths are impressive, mining is…
U.S. probes banking of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort
By Jack Gillum, Menelaos Hadjicostis, Eric Tucker Associated Press From Chicago Tribune The U.S. government investigation of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, crossed the Atlantic earlier this year to the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, once known…
Aspirin taken to thin the blood to prevent strokes ‘can double risk of suffering a heart attack’
By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail From This Is Money Study of 30,000 NHS patients with atrial fibrillation found they were at higher risk if they took aspirin Patients were 1.9 times as likely to have an…
