CDB to provide hurricane relief financing to borrowing member countries affected by Hurricane Sandy
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has offered to provide the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, the Government of Jamaica and the Government of Haiti with financial assistance for their recovery efforts in the wake of the passage of…
Bestselling Jamaican Author Presents New Novel at Books & Books
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (November 9, 2012): One of Jamaica’s most popular authors is coming to Grand Cayman. Judith Falloon-Reid will visit Books & Books in Camana Bay on Wednesday, November 21, at 7pm for the Cayman Islands launch of…
HSBC investigation: Drug dealers, gun runners and Britain’s biggest bank
By Holly Watt, Robert Winnett and Claire Newell Britain’s biggest bank is at the centre of a major HM Revenue and Customs investigation after it opened offshore accounts in Jersey for serious criminals living in this country, The Telegraph can…
Bermuda Team Win CEA Dressage competition- Cayman win Children’s competition
Yesterday [Nov 10] Bermuda won the Adult Team competition in the CEA Dressage Competition, defeating teams from Jamaica, Cayman, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. Bermuda also placed second in the Children’s Team competition, where they also competed against teams from…
Q&A: BBC crisis explained
The BBC’s head of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell have been replaced pending the outcome of an internal review into how the corporation handled sexual abuse claims against former presenter Jimmy Savile. The news came two days…
RCIPS donates cars to drive up interest in auto-mechanics
Students with an interest in auto-mechanics, or considering a career in that field, will be better prepared for the future – thanks to a joint venture between the RCIPS and the Ministry of Education, Training & Employment’s (METE) Extended After…
Noor Inayat Khan: The Indian princess who spied for Britain
By Samantha Dalton BBC News The Princess Royal has unveiled a sculpture of Noor Inayat Khan, a WWII agent dubbed the “Spy Princess” by her biographer Shrabani Basu, in London’s Gordon Square Gardens. Raised in Britain and France and a…
Skydive starts Pirates Week Landing and Float Parade
It was a spectacular start to the 2012 35th Annual Pirates Week Landing and Float Parade with a skydive. And that wasn’t all. A lady hovered over the water in Hog Sty Bay by the aid of downward pressure hoses…
“We will remember them”
“They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. “They shall grow…
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
“One of the strangest aspects of Election 2012 is that voters are demanding change but didn’t change politicians. They left Republicans in charge of the House, elected an even more Democratic Senate and re-elected President Obama. They’re unhappy with the…
