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Cayman’s ex-premier’s government credit card PIN was working reveals witness On Wednesday (24) at the continuing trial of Cayman Islands ex-premier McKeeva Bush for allegedly using his government credit card to withdraw money and gamble in casinos, in Tampa, Las…
Floods, landslides damage Grenada’s historic tunnel
From Caribbean360 CMC – Grenada says it will spend an estimated two million EC dollars (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) on upgrading structures, including the century old tunnel in the city, damaged by floods and landslides over the last weekend….
NASA has determined where the mysterious jelly-doughnut rock on Mars came from
By Dina Spector NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ./Business Insider Attached image shows Pinnacle Island in the lower left corner and where the piece of rock had been before it appeared in front of the rover. Scientists have confirmed that a strange-looking…
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Chikungunya in Latin Caribbean goes over 700,000 as the Dominican Republic nears a half million cases By Robert Herriman From Outbreak News Today The number of autochthonous chikungunya cases in the Latin Caribbean, which includes the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti,…
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Cayman Islands: 31-year-old robbed of his personal belongs and vehicle From RCIPS A 31-year-old male of the Savannah area reported to police that on Saturday, 20th September 2014 about 1.00 am he returned to his vehicle (unaccompanied), which had been…
All the world’s an island: Correspondent Carol-Ann covers the Globe with only a back pack Part Five
By Carol-Ann Rudy Rome and Venice: Piacere di conoscerti – Happy to meet you! Linear travel, linear thinking. A huge change from my daily approach to life from “content and objectives taking center stage in our minds,” to quote Dennnis…
Sent far from Philadelphia, Bishop Bevard loves his Caribbean flock
By Lou Baldwin From Catholic Philly As a child, born Presbyterian in Baltimore and raised in very rural and then-very Protestant Oxford, Chester County, Bishop Herbert Bevard in his wildest dreams would not have imagined someday he would be the…
25th Anniversary: Hurricane Hugo left path of destruction in US, Caribbean
By Mark Leberfinger, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Hurricane Hugo made landfall 25 years ago, leaving a path of death and destruction from the Caribbean to the southern and eastern United States. Hugo was responsible for 49 deaths in the U.S. and…
Hurricane Ivan remembered by Cayman Islands at 10th anniversary
Panel speakers at the recent Hurricane Ivan symposium sought a dedicated home for the Cayman Islands Weather Service as a priority so that future emergency operations are not jeopardised as they were during the 2004 storm. Moderator Loxley Banks got…
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Chikungunya death toll in the Caribbean passes 100 mark From Curacao Chronicle The death toll from the mosquito-borne viral disease Chikungunya continues to rise in the Caribbean, now passing the 100 mark, health officials say. The Pan American Health Organization,…





