Sharks prefer to sneak up from behind, study shows
From Alexander Brown Springer.com Research shows that Caribbean reef sharks can tell if a human is facing toward them “Never turn your back on a shark” is the take home message from an article published in Springer’s journal Animal Cognition….
8 Drugs doctors won’t take
By Lynn Allison From Newsmax Every doctor knows that there are two types of top-selling medications: Those that are popular because they are effective and those that sell well because of big drug company marketing campaigns. It is this second…
Founder of Cuba’s human rights movement dies
From Go-Jamaica MADRID, Spain, CMC – A founder and leading figure of Cuba’s human rights movement and a sharp critic of the Fidel and Raúl Castro governments for decades is dead. Martha Frayde Barraqué, who died here on Wednesday, was…
Russia had no stomach for the Grenadian revolution
By Everton Pryce From Jamaica Observer IT is often said that the marginal Marxist-Leninist Caribbean state of Grenada under Maurice Bishop’s New Jewel Movement (NJM) of 1979-1983 was a satellite of Russia. But many readers of this column may be…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
These are the worst cell phones of all time
By Caroline Moss From Business Insider Since the advent of cellular technology, we’ve seen some awesome phones. We’ve also seen some terrible phones. Remember the Motorola ROKR? How about the Pantech? We searched for what people called their “worst cell…
BF&M earnings up 15 per cent
By Don Burgess, Deputy Editor BDA Sun BF&M CEO and president John Wight said: “The company’s balance sheet continues to be very strong. Equity attributable to shareholders at 30 September 2013 was $217.1 million. General fund assets totaled $1.1 billion…
Hopes high in ACP-EU meet
By Bradford Theonomi From Solomon Star News African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States are hopeful and confident of a good outcome when meeting with the European Union Commissioner this week after decades of negotiations. A pre-meeting prior to…
Public invited to sign Mandela Condolence Books
Members of the public are invited to sign condolence books for the family of the late Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa at the Government Administration Building on Grand Cayman, and the District Administration Building on Cayman Brac. On…
Cayman Islands Half Marathon = WOW!
By Sandra Sofalvi-Wiscombe from Run Sofalvi Run Our entire week in the Cayman Islands was just fabulous and the race was absolutely wonderful 🙂 Now for the long raving post and pics: Getting there: We left Edmonton on Wednesday at…
