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Community Events TUE JULY 21 National Gallery Summer Cine Club for Kids National Gallery Summer Cine Club for Kids is back with an all new selection of neat movies to enjoy! Screenings will be every Tuesday afternoon starting at 2:00…
Cayman Islands joins in Regional Ebola Simulation Exercise
Health professionals and other stakeholders from the Cayman Islands and 12 other regional countries recently took part in a table top exercise on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on 13-14 July 2015. Local participants included 24 members of the multi -disciplinary…
The IMF vision of debt and Obama’s boldness with Iran
By Sir Ronald Sanders From CARIBBEAN360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday July 17, 2015 – The debt crisis in Greece and the historic accord to limit Iran’s nuclear capability, thus lifting crippling sanctions, will have global repercussions. US President Barack Obama has…
Why juries reject the insanity defense
From Leon Friedman, The National Law Journal The jury in the James Eagan Holmes murder case in Colorado on Thursday rejected his insanity defense, finding him guilty of first-degree murder after he killed 12 people at a movie theater in…
Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones From The Guardian The honour Baroness Amos feels as she prepares to take over a top London college is tempered by dismay that only 85 out of 18,500 UK professors are black Making history as the first…
Embryo case could break new ground
By Marisa Kendall, from The Recorder With her eyes scrunched closed, her voice so shaky that the judge at times checked the transcript to make sure the pivotal testimony was being recorded, Dr. Mimi Lee told the story of the…
The business case for the Carbon Tax
By Julie Fox Gorte from Caribbean Life History offers a great many examples of individuals, groups and societies that lived too much in the moment and compromised longer term prosperity — or in some cases (think Easter Island) even survival….
[US] Stalking law does not cover email addresses, Judge says
By Joel Stashenko, from New York Law Journal A woman’s work email address does not equate to a “place of employment or business,” and thus her ex-girlfriend could not have stalked her by sending unwanted messages to the account, a…
Bride loses luggage before wedding day, Scottish islanders storm to the rescue
By Sam Haysom From Mashable LONDON –- There’s only one thing worse than losing your luggage, and that’s losing your luggage the day before your wedding. After arriving in Orkney on Monday, Lucia Sessions was faced with exactly that nightmare…
Bahamian shares country’s culture in China
YANGZHOU, The People’s Republic of China — Senior Information Officer at Bahamas Information Services Mr. Eric Rose (left) poses with Second Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro Mr. Damir Sabanovic, during the welcoming banquet…
