1st Lancet Countdown launch on climate change and health to be held in the Caribbean
On the heels of COP25, OECS partners with HCC to launch 2019 report By Maisha Hutton Executive Director, Healthy Caribbean Coalition Tuesday, December 17, 2019 — The Caribbean has been selected as one of the priority regions of the Lancet Countdown…
MRIs of dense breasts find more cancer but also false alarms
AP From Newsmax Giving women with very dense breasts an MRI scan in addition to a mammogram led to fewer missed cancers but also to a lot of false alarms and treatments that might not have been needed, a large…
Very good dogs discover 65 million-year-old fossil skeleton while out for a walk
By Mike Wehner From BGR When 54-year-old Jon Gopsill took his two dogs out for a stroll on a beach in Stolford, Somerset in the UK, he never could have anticipated what they’d stumble across. Gopsill is an amateur archaeologist…
Astronomers are spotting so many exoplanets that there’s no time to study them all
By Mike Wehner From BGR Today, astronomers have more tools at their disposal than ever before. Technology has reached a point that scientists can finally spot planets outside of our own solar system. That’s an incredible achievement, of course, but…
OECS agriculture experts visit Kingdom of Morocco on technical cooperation mission
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 — Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco — In an effort to strengthen capacities in the critical areas of agronomy, soil fertility mapping, diagnostic laboratory testing, irrigation, and export market development; a delegation of agriculture experts from the OECS visited the Kingdom of Morocco…
17 Dec 2019 Weather in Cayman
17 Dec Tue 2019 Weather in Cayman SYNOPSIS Light to moderate winds and slight to moderate seas are expected through the next 24 hours as the pressure gradient across the Northwest Caribbean slackens in response to a cold front moving…
Cayman: Upgrades to Emergency Notification System (NENS) Begin
GRAND CAYMAN (GIS) – The hurricane season may have recently come to an end but Hazard Management Cayman Islands (HMCI) and the Department of Public Safety Communications (DPSC) continue their work to make Cayman better prepared for disasters than ever before….
10 health myths to stop believing now
By Zoe Papadakis From Newsmax We all have ideas of what we think is good and bad for our health, but how much of what we believe is actually true? We are bombarded by so much information and figuring out what…
AI knew all along that it was not Brexit that did it in the UK election
In case you missed it, there was one Twitter feed that was bang on in predicting the UK election results (https://twitter.com/Polly_ASI). Advanced Symbolics Inc. (ASI), an artificial intelligence-driven market research company, and its AI tool called “Polly” in fact, was more…
Mice brawling in a London tube station made for one of the best wildlife photos of the year
By Ben Mack from Business Insider An amazing photo captures what appears to be mice fighting inside a tube station in London. The photo was taken by Sam Rowley and is part of the Natural History Museum in London’s Wildlife Photographer…






