Southern Cross Club Hosts 17th Annual Sister Islands Cook-Off
Once again Team Southern Cross sweeps awards and comes out on top as 2014 Grand Champion; Culinary event keeps gaining momentum Little Cayman, Cayman Islands (Dec 1, 2014) – Cayman’s top chefs gathered at the Southern Cross Club on Little…
LIFE Ltd partners with John Gray High School to improve student reading achievement
In September of 2014, LIFE Ltd (‘LIFE’), in partnership with the Department of Education Services (DES), John Gray High School (JGHS), and the Ministry of Education, launched a reading intervention program to support struggling readers in year 7. LIFE (Literacy…
Largest Antigua career prep workshop a ‘turning point’ for youth
From Caribbean360 ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Saturday November 29, 2014 – The region’s leading microfinance institution is tackling a significant problem in the Eastern Caribbean that has far reaching negative implications for the future workforce in the region. As part of…
The Commonwealth’s battle for relevance
By Kayode Soyinka from Jamaica Observer Where is the Commonwealth these days? The multi-lateral organisation of nations who are bound together by a similar colonial past, as colonies under British rule, has lost its sparkle and it’s rarely heard of…
Why are infants dying in the Dominican Republic’s hospitals?
From Caribbean360 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, December 1, 2014 — A report conducted last October by Altagracia Guzman Marcelino, the Dominican Republic’s new Minister of Health, found that the deaths of 11 babies in one weekend at Robert Reid Cabral…
CARICOM and Japan celebrate 20 years of cooperation in fisheries
Belize City, 1 December 2014 (CRFM): Japan’s fisheries cooperation with CARICOM has spanned two decades. Following several country seminars held over the past few weeks, the celebration of this milestone—20 years of friendship and cooperation in fisheries—will climax this week,…
Cayman Islands Health City performs historical second LVAD heart surgery
December 1, 2014: Health City Cayman Islands has performed its second successful LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist Device) heart surgery, allowing another ailing Caribbean national to move to a new beat. Ralph Wright of the Cayman Islands recently benefited from the…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
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Cayman Islands: N164bn debt: Access Bank obtains order to sell Akingbola’s properties Dec 1, 2014 – A Grant Court of the Cayman Islands has granted Access Bank Plc leave to sell more of the properties belonging to former managing director…
‘2015 Jump League gets off to a flying start’ in Cayman Islands
Unlike dressage, the equestrian sport of show jumping does not have its origins in the military battlefields of Europe. Instead, it was, somewhat surprisingly, born in 18th century England following the passing of the Enclosure Acts. Prior to the Acts,…
