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Cayman Islands Business Licensing Counter to close early on Tuesday (26) The Department of Commerce and Investment’s (DCI) Business Licensing Counter will close at 3pm tomorrow (Tuesday, 26 July), for a staff training event. The counter will resume its…
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Save Cayman Islands reef fish…19 August deadline for input to Conservation Plan
By Courtney Platt For those who may have missed it: Notice of Public Consultation: Fish Conservation Plan: The National Conservation Council invites public comment on a Species Conservation Plan for (reef) Fish. The Plan may be viewed at www.DoE.ky/fish-conservation and…
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9% increase in new HIV infections in the Caribbean
By CMC From WiredJa DURBAN, South Africa, Jul 23, CMC – The 21st International AIDS Conference has ended here with the Caribbean reporting a nione per cent increase in new HIV infections. The United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy for HIV in…
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Mosquito control officials: Even Zika suspicions are costly
By AP From Boston Herald MIAMI — Florida mosquito control officials worry they won’t be able to keep up their efforts to contain the bugs that carry Zika without federal funding, even as concern mounts that the first infection from…
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Manatees head to Caribbean in first ever repopulation scheme
By Afp From Daily Mail UK Singapore’s zoo said Monday it will send two manatees to Guadeloupe as part of the world’s first repopulation programme for the animal, which became extinct on the French Caribbean island in the early 20th…
This might be the most detailed map of the human brain we’ve ever seen
By Erin Brodwin From Business Insider Imagine that the first map you ever saw of the United States was simply a rough outline of the country’s borders with only about half the state boundaries penciled in. That’s essentially the type of diagram…
Alcohol’s cancer risks outweigh any health benefits, study shows
BY MARIA GALLUCCI From Mashable Drinking alcohol is a direct cause of at least seven forms of cancer, and the more you drink, the higher your risk, a new analysis found. The report’s author said she hoped to cut through…
First drone pilot jailed for flying contraband into UK prisons
By Nick Summers From engadget In a first for the UK, a drone pilot has been jailed for flying illegal substances into prisons. Daniel Kelly was sentenced to 14 months in jail after using a quadcopter to deliver “spice,” a psychoactive…
16th Century Biblical inscriptions discovered in Caribbean cave
By Veronica Neffinger From Christian Headlines Cave inscriptions dating back to the sixteenth century have been discovered in a cave on a small island in the Caribbean. According to FoxNews.com, the inscriptions include both indigenous art and Christian inscriptions from European…
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How A Caribbean Island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases
By Phil Galewitz From Kaiser Health News More than 1,400 Americans contracted Zika while traveling outside the U.S. this year and a Caribbean-island nation is one of the top destinations where they caught the virus. Visitors to the Dominican Republic…
