Discrimination, homophobia, privilege and hate speech in Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly
By James Austen- Smith From Cayman Islands Human Rights Commission Like many others in Cayman, and elsewhere, the members of the Human Rights Commission were shocked to read reports of a ‘debate’ which took place in the Legislative Assembly on…
Autopsy shows St. Louis teen was shot in the back by police
By Megan Specia From Mashable A preliminary autopsy of an 18-year-old black man shot dead by St. Louis police earlier this week shows he was shot in the back. Mansur Ball-Bey’s death Wednesday ignited outrage in a community scarred by…
More bad news for DuPont: Teflon chemical builds up in breast-fed babies
By Bill Walker, Investigations Editor From ewg.org If you’re a chemical industry spin doctor trying to discredit the scientific evidence on the dangers of a compound that contaminates the drinking water of millions of Americans, Thursday was a bad day….
China seen as next boom for cruise industry
By Hannah Sampson From Miami Herald In early 2014, the cruise industry was steaming ahead with few surprises. New ships were on the horizon, including Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum of the Seas, which was headed where most new ships from…
Scientists reject claims of lab-grown mini human brain
From New Scientist Almost fully-formed brain grown in a lab. Woah: Scientists grow first nearly fully-formed human brain. Boffins raise five-week-old fetal human brain in the lab for experimentation. On Tuesday, all the above appeared as headlines for one particular…
Cricket: WICB bans T&T’s Mohammed
The Disciplinary Tribunal of the West Indies Cricket Board announced today that Trinidad & Tobago batsman Jason Mohammed has been penalised under the WICB’s Code of Conduct. Mohammed has been banned for the first two matches of the Trinidad &…
Cayman Islands Cancer Society says “No Thanks” to local playwright with cancer
Georgina Wilcox Local award winning playwright, Colin Wilson, has been fighting prostate cancer for some time and having major issues with blockages, etc. After a number of emergency trips to the hospital he bit the bullet and last January had…
CARICOM: A collective bargaining unit for rights
By Sir Ronald Sanders From CARIBBEAN360AUGUST 21, 2015 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday August 21, 2015 – The Caribbean regional integration project is often described and criticised almost entirely on the uneven benefits of trade to member countries. But, important as it…
American heroes: How we overpowered French train attacker
From Newsmax LILLE, France — A day ago he was just another tourist on a train. By Saturday, U.S. Airman First Class Spencer Stone was recovering from knife wounds in a hospital in France, being thanked for foiling what the…
Recipe of the week
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