Caribbean completes medal haul at Commonwealth Games
From News Americas News Americas, GLASGOW, Scotland, Mon. Aug. 4, 2014: The Caribbean region completed a 36 medal haul at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this past weekend, thanks largely to Jamaica’s stellar athletes. The island’s Independence Day celebration…
Cayman Islands Brandyn Murray trains with elite in Germany
Over the summer, twenty-year old college sophomore Brandyn Murray had the unique opportunity to train with a number of professional and semi-professional football teams in Germany and England. The trip was made possible with the financial support from Grasspiece Promotions…
Robots score on a human soccer team, humans retain control of the world
By Dylan Love From Business Insider Founded in 1997 with the ambitious goal to develop a robotic humanoid soccer-playing robot by 2050, the RoboCup is an annual robotics competition that sees robots play soccer against each other in an exercise…
Antibiotics in your chicken!
By Bindu Shajan Perappadan From The Hindu The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) lab study found residues of antibiotics in 40 per cent of the samples of chicken that were tested. Large-scale unregulated use of antibiotics in the poultry…
Octopus mom protects her eggs for an astonishing 4-1/2 years
By Will Dunham From Yahoo News WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If someone were to create an award for “mother of the year” in the animal kingdom, a remarkably dedicated eight-limbed mom from the dark and frigid depths of the Pacific Ocean…
Tiger Woods walks off course at Bridgestone / CPL Cricket
Tiger Woods walks off course at Bridgestone Invitational By Andrew Both AKRON, Ohio — Reuters From The Globe and Mail Defending champion Tiger Woods pulled out of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio on Sunday after aggravating his troublesome back,…
New faces at Cayman Islands Health Ministry
This summer the Ministry of Health, Youth, Sports and Culture has continued its practice of hosting young Caymanians looking to benefit from work experience. 18-year-old Lucille Williams-Fernandez and 20-year-old Taylor Clarke-Wint are the newest interns at the Ministry. Lucille is…
RE/MAX sponsors Purple Dragon student for third year
For the third year in a row, RE/MAX Cayman Islands has taken part in the Purple Dragon Martial Arts scholarship programme. The programme originated when RE/MAX hosted an essay competition in 2012 encouraging children to finish the statement “I want…
