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Caribbean hoteliers, tourism officials seek Zika antidote
By BRIAN MAJOR From Travel Pulse With the 2016 summer travel season waning, Caribbean tourism officials hope for some moderation in the Zika virus’ increasingly apparent toll on visitor arrivals. But with infection numbers continuing to grow in regional destinations,…
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US Convicted Pa. AG says she’ll resign on Wednesday Pennsylvania’s embattled attorney general said she will step down from her post effective Wednesday afternoon following her conviction earlier this week on charges that she leaked confidential investigative material to a…
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Cayman Islands Youth ACT to hold youth crime prevention workshops
Members of the Youth Anti-Crime Trust (ACT) will be hosting a series of workshops where they hope to get some much needed support for a programme they want to introduce in the Cayman Islands which has proven to be very…
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Cayman Islands: Signing of Waste Tyre Shredding Contract
In an effort to dispose of the large amount of waste tyres that have accumulated at the George Town Landfill, the Ministry of Health and successful contractors met on Monday, 15 August 2016 to sign the official waste tyre shredding…
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Volunteer Divers prep restored Grand Cayman coral reef for upcoming hot date
By John Liang From Deeper Blue Some restored coral off Grand Cayman is getting primped and beautified for an upcoming hot date. Dive volunteers are carefully combing and brushing a section of restored coral reef in George Town Harbour, trying…
Mars’ veins were created by vanishing ancient lakes
By Jon Fingas From engadget Another sign that Mars once had a lot of water. Scientists just produced stronger evidence that Mars once had water lakes that might have nurtured life. After combing over Curiosity rover data, the researchers determined that…
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3 Possible systems forming in Atlantic From Mike’s Weather Page It appears we are entering a busy couple weeks in the Tropics. Both the GFS/EURO show three possible systems in the Atlantic coming up. Invest 98 images and more…
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Cayman Islands: Oxitec opinion survey results released [69% in favour]
A large majority of Grand Cayman residents support the public health programme known as the Friendly Aedes aegypti Project under way in West Bay. A recent opinion poll has revealed that 69 per cent of residents support this initiative, while…
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Peter Binose: Time to stop Visitors from Venezuela from entering the Caribbean without a treatment certificate
By Peter Binose In 2001 Venezuela was so affected by dengue that it trickled down through the Caribbean and the Americas which reached a crescendo by 2014. Almost every citizen throughout the Caribbean suffered from the disease it proved unstoppable. Dengue…
DNA fingerprinting can boost agriculture in region — Wheatley
From JIS KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Science, Energy and Technology Minister, Dr Andrew Wheatley, is underscoring the importance of DNA fingerprinting in ensuring the sustainability of the agriculture sector in the Caribbean and Latin America. He said the “scientific architecture”…
