UPDATE (from RCIPS): Bryce Merren alleged to be involved in drug smuggling and money laundering
From RCIPS Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:06 AM The RCIPS can confirm that it has been in consultation with our US and Puerto Rican colleagues in relation to the arrest of a local businessman on drug related matters. Original…
Dive Instructor in Cayman Islands attacked by a shark
From Bigfoot News Blog A shark attacked a Dive Instructor in Cayman Islands on Thursday (13). While lion fish culling in the Western Caribbean sea, a dive instructor was caught off guard by a shark that came out of nowhere…
Breast Cancer and Wellness
The Breast Cancer Foundation offers support for breast cancer patients in the Cayman Islands The Breast Cancer Foundation recently announced a new wellness initiative. The catalyst for this initiative was a donation made to the Breast Cancer Foundation by a…
Let us focus research on what we do best
By Professor Errol Morrison “There are some things which we in the Caribbean will do best…and there are some things which only we in the Caribbean will want to do!” These are the words of Nobel laureate in economics, the…
iNews Briefs
FTC Investigating Herbalife By Chris Morran From Consumerist For more than a year, some have accused nutritional supplement company Herbalife of operating a pyramid scheme and called for federal authorities to investigate the business. Today, the company confirmed that it…
PM woos Caribbean nurses to T&T
By Gail Alexander From Guardian Media ST VINCENT: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has invited nurses from the Caricom region to work in T&T in a bid to ease T&T’s nursing shortage. Persad-Bissessar made the offer on Tuesday at the same…
Government spends over $17,000 on Chatham House trip
Government releases cost of Chatham House trip GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – Government spent $17,437.70 on travel to London for a Chatham House Conference on Global Corruption and an appearance by Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin on BBC’s HardTalk last month….
UWI defends doctor who performed C-section resulting in death of baby
From Caribbean360 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday March 13, 2014, CMC – The doctor who performed the C-section which led to the death of a baby at the Mt. Hope Maternity Hospital on Carnival Saturday has the backing of the University of…
Famed artist Guy Harvey unveils his signature hull artwork for Norwegian Escape
MIAMI – March 12, 2014 – Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that Guy Harvey, widely recognized as the world’s finest marine wildlife artist and champion of ocean conservation, has been named to design the signature hull artwork of the line’s…
3 Dead and at least 64 injured in massive Harlem building explosion
By Caroline Moss, Pamela Engel and Harrison Jacob From Business Insider Three people died and at least 64 others were injured in a massive building explosion in Harlem early Wednesday, ABC 7 reports. Nine people are still missing, and rescue…
