Barbados sees record-breaking tourism arrivals for first half of 2015
From CARIBBEAN360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, 2015 – Barbados recorded 303,592 long-stay visitors during the first six months of this year, marking the first time in the 29 years of recording tourism statistics that the destination has ever topped 300,000 visitors in…
Suspicion and animosity makes tour success Froome’s best
By Barnaby Chesterman, AFP By Business Insider Paris (AFP) – Chris Froome admitted he’d been “up against everything” at the Tour de France where he was accused of cheating, spat upon and had urine thrown at him. The 30-year-old Briton…
Baby seal stuck in mud rescued by curious cows
By Max Knoblauch From Mashable “Rescued by cows” is the kind of thing that you didn’t know was on your bucket list until you hear about it happening to someone else. Let this baby seal in Lincolnshire, U.K. be that…
Survey: Will artificial intelligence take over IT and the world?
By Scott Matteson From TechRepublic Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a staple of science fiction and cinema for decades now, with one of the most famous early examples being Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” It represented the potential…
Royal Caribbean halts dynamic dining expansion
From Travel Pulse Royal Caribbean International has halted the expansion of Dynamic Dining, a concept that reinvented the way cruise passengers ate dinner. Introduced on Quantum of the Seas, Dynamic Dining essentially did away with the mammoth main dining room…
How Gridmates is crowdsourcing electricity to help eliminate energy poverty
By Lyndsey Gilpin From TechRepublic By using a peer-to-peer financing model, this Austin-based startup is providing a way for people to power the homes of those who lack access to electricity. Globally, 1.3 billion people live without power, according to…
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Cayman Islands attractions move to historical site
The Cayman Islands Tourism Attraction Board (TAB) has relocated its administrative offices to Pedro St. James historical site, one of the attractions managed by the TAB. The move took place on Friday, July 24. The Board has announced that the…
Application window open for the UK Government’s prestigious Chevening Scholarships for academic year 2016/17
Talented professionals and public servants from the Cayman Islands are able to apply for a scholarship award under the UK’s flagship scholarship programme funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Chevening Scholarships are awarded to individuals with strong academic backgrounds…
Sky’s the limit: Cape Town Convention extension to Cayman Islands imminent
By Louise Groom and Ellie Crespi-McCarthy, from Harneys, Review of the Cayman Island’s planned ratification of the Cape Town Convention Practitioners will be aware that the United Kingdom Government is set to ratify the Convention on International Interests in Mobile…
