Kolkata Knight Riders go west: Shah Rukh Khan buys CPL team

By K Shriniwas Rao, From The Times of India MUMBAI: Bollywood royalty is now set to rub shoulders with Hollywood glamour, following the purchase of the Trinidad & Tobago franchise in the Caribbean Premier League by star actor and Kolkata…

Visitor numbers up for the Caribbean region

By Gay Nagle Myers From Travel Weekly Based on first-quarter air arrivals, the Caribbean region is in a good place right now. And tourism officials predict a 6% rise in overall arrival numbers this year compared with 2014, when 26.3…

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Cayman Islands’ coaches train in Trinidad

By Pamela Fowler From CIEF Three Caymanian members of the Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation have just returned from Trinidad and Tobago after participating in a regional coaching course. The FEI Level 1 Coaching Course was run by the Trinidad and…

NASA spacecraft detects impact glass on surface of Mars

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, such deposits might provide a delicate window into the…

Costa Rica is officially going after the lionfish

By L. ARIAS From The Tico Times Artfully preserved, a lionfish sits in a glass case on Manzanillo Beach in Limón, on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. Lindsay Fend/The Tico Times The Southern Caribbean Artisanal Fishermen’s Association on Monday presented officials…

Jarritos joins CONCACAF as Gold Cup 2015 Official Soda

Miami (Tuesday, June 09, 2015) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced today that Jarritos, a North American brand of carbonated soda sold widely in the U.S. market, and its parent company Novamex, will…

“Where de Lizard?” Why the Caribbean is fascinated with them

Janine Mendes-Franco From Global Voices These little creatures have different meanings in other cultures. Ancient Romans believed that the lizard symbolized death and resurrection, because it sleeps during winter and reawakens in Spring. For the Greeks and Egyptians, the lizard…

Legal Defense Fund boosts grants in law student scholarship program

By Karen Sloan, From The National Law Journal Correction: The headline for this article has been change to clarify that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund grants the scholarships. U.S. Rep. James Clyburn. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. David Coar, a…

Google takes Jenner & Block, MPAA to court over subpoenas

By Zoe Tillman, From The National Law Journal Google Inc. has asked a Washington judge to force Jenner & Block and the Motion Picture Association of America to comply with subpoenas for documents that Google says will prove their involvement…