Community partners to commemorate Ivan anniversary
Hazard Management Cayman Islands (HMCI) and various community partners are planning a month of activities in September, to mark the Cayman Islands’ remarkable recovery from the passage of Hurricane Ivan 10 years ago. Visual reminders of the storm’s devastating impact…
Vigorous tropical wave coming off Africa this weekend – will need watching closely
From Dr Jeff Masters Weather Underground Little change to 97L headed towards the Lesser Antilles A tropical wave (Invest 97L) was near 13°N, 47°W on Tuesday morning, about 900 miles east of the Lesser Antilles Islands, and was headed west…
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Cayman Islands Weather Service launches mobile weather app
Getting caught short in an unexpected shower of rain can be a thing of the past thanks to a newly launched Cayman Islands National weather service app. The free-to-download mobile app features a simple interface giving up-to-the-minute updates on weather…
Boosting resilience in the Caribbean
By Jessica Faieta from Caribbean360 NEW YORK, United States, Tuesday August 26, 2014, IPS – Having lived and worked for more than a decade in four Caribbean countries, I have witnessed firsthand how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are extremely…
$20M waste to energy deal sealed on Caribbean’s Nevis Island
By Ben Messenger From Waste Management World The government of Nevis Island, a small island in the Caribbean Sea, has signed off a deal that will see a waste to energy facility constructed on the island in partnership with Baltimore,…
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Jamaican dub poet to get heroes’ honor
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life The annual list of distinctive nationals from Jamaica has been announced and among them is Linton Kwesi Johnson, the London-based poet who has consistently documented the plight of Caribbean nationals and people of…
CRFM to give oral arguments to Law of the Sea Tribunal
Belize City, August 26, 2014: The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will on September 5, 2014give oral arguments to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany in response to a request for an advisory…
How lizard tails could help scientists study human limb regeneration
By Adam Clark Estes From Gizmodo Prosthetic technology is getting insanely good. But what if we just didn’t need it any more? What if we could simply program our genes to regrow human limbs as easily as lizards regrow lost…
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Bahamas: Government press officer shot and killed From Jamaica Observer NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) – The Bahamas Government has paid tribute to Latore Mackey, the former Deputy Director of the Bahamas Information Service (BIS), who was shot and killed on Monday….
1 killed, 2 missing as Cristobal barrels through Caribbean
From Jamaica Observer SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Slow-moving Tropical Storm Cristobal lashed parts of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands with heavy rainfall yesterday. One man died and two other people were earlier left missing when…
