Caribbean faces threat of biggest tsunami ever recorded
From Caribbean 360 A new study suggests that a mega-tsunami could devastate coastlines from Florida to Brazil following a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands. LONDON, England, Wednesday February 12, 2014 – The Caribbean could be at risk from a…
Royal Caribbean’s Misplaced Priorities: Fast Internet, Virtual Balconies But No Automatic Man-Overboard Systems
By Jim Walker From Jim Walker’s Cruise Law News Today (10) I read an article by a popular cruise blogger that Royal Caribbean was on track to deliver a fast land-based internet experience to its guests. The article went on…
Economic crisis and the Caribbean: The challenges facing Barbados
By Hilbourne Watson From Stabroek News Hilbourne A. Watson is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Barbados is yet another casualty of the economic crisis facing the Caribbean, with the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) government euphemistically…
Greenlight Capital Re to Release Fourth Quarter and Year End 2013 Results
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, Feb 11, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) — Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd., a specialist property and casualty reinsurer based in the Cayman Islands and Ireland, today announced that it expects to release financial results for the…
Haiti to register Haitian migrants abroad
By Trenton Daniel From Boston.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is launching a program to register its migrants who live without documentation abroad, including in the Dominican Republic, where thousands of people of Haitian origin are in danger of being…
Church blames families for societal breakdown
By Tanesha Mundle From Jamaica Observer Pointing to examples of social and moral decay in the country, the New Testament Church of God in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands recently launched a programme intended to reduce the incidence of divorce…
Why did a healthy, young giraffe have to die at the Copenhagen Zoo?
By Ann-Marie Alcantara From Mashable A two-year-old giraffe was put down by officials at the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark on Sunday. The decision was made to prevent inbreeding within the giraffe population at the zoo. The giraffe in question, Marius,…
Caribbean tourism sees modest visitor gains in 2013
By Gay Nagle Myers From Travel Weekly The number of Caribbean visitors increased 1.8% in 2013, a growth rate that lagged well behind most other world regions. In comparison, 2013 tourist arrivals grew 3.6% in all of the Americas, 5.4%…
Cayman Islands trust that holds the Lakshmi family’s steel wealth
By Jim Armitage From The Independent UK Lakshmi Mittal is over his metal fatigue and that’s a boost for the global economy. But investors may have to wait for the return of the big spender Global outlook: ArcelorMittal’s debts may…
‘At Long Last ‘ – Sonia Farmer reviews Malcolm Rae’s first solo show in a decade
From Bahama islands info Observing the body of realist paintings by Malcolm Rae in his first solo show in a decade, “At Long Last”, opening at Doongalik Studios on Thursday, February 20th, viewers may wonder what they have been missing….
