Puerto Rico’s First Lady promotes community gardens, starting with her backyard
By Julie Wright, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Caribbean Puerto Rico’s First Lady is a big fan of the home garden, and actually, the garden at the governor’s mansion, called La Fortaleza, is part of USDA’s national garden movement. First Lady…
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Two Caymanians become champions at Blue Mountain At the 2014 Blue Mountain Caribbean Junior Tennis Championships in Jamaica the Cayman Islands produced two champions. Bobby Lomax took first in the boys 12-and-under class by beating Jamaica’s Damani Cain 6-2, 0-6,…
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The Caribbean goes geothermal
By Melissa Pandik From OZY Why you should care Because Caribbean islands could help lead the way in weaning us from fossil fuels by tapping into heat energy deep within the Earth. Forget the white-sand beaches and astonishing biodiversity. The…
OECS resumes talks aimed at developing, sustaining marine managed areas
From Caribbean360 CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Friday August 15, 2014, CMC – The St. Lucia-based Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission has started a series of meetings aimed at further developing and sustaining marine managed areas and their associated livelihoods…
Another story about our dying reefs and another warning – take heed
From DW ‘If we don’t change now we will lose the reefs’ A major study has found Caribbean coral reefs could disappear in 20 years. DW spoke to Carl Gustaf Lundin, director of the global marine and polar programme at…
Watching Invest 96L-could move into Caribbean late week
By Lindsay Milbourne From My Fox Hurricane Models hint that the Atlantic Basin may heat up later this week. We’re watching two tropical waves in the south central Atlantic Tuesday. In the short term both tropical waves struggle with dry…
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Red Sail Sports has a great deal during Cayman Island’s “Legends and Lions”
Red Sail Sports Offers an Unbeatable Dive Deal During Cayman’s “Legends and Lions” Celebration October 4 – 11 Taking advantage of off-season rates to offer travel deals, Cayman’s dive industry highlights things that make it a top dive destination: incredible…
Cayman Islands lionfish cull collects nearly 252 lbs of predators
The Cayman United Lionfish League’s cull #12 caught 251.70 lbs of the invasive predators that are causing havoc in our waters. That equates to 579 lionfish. 60 cullers on 13 teams were in action over the weekend but the total…
Lionfish characteristics make them more ‘terminator’ than predator
From Science Daily New research on the predatory nature of red lionfish, the invasive species that is decimating native fish populations in parts of the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, seems to indicate that lionfish are not just a predator,…
World record opah fish caught in Caribbean
By Sophia Steele From KpopSrarz Three gigantic moonfish surprise Recreational Fishermen, Not Consumed Due To Mercury Level World record breaking opah fish was caught by recreational fisherman in the Mexican waters. One of the opah fish, also known as moonfish,…
