Will Caribbean immigrants finally be able to self-identify on U.S. census forms?
Op/Ed by Dr. Linda Marc Cléris From LaVoz After a battle waged since 2008, the United States government may finally be prepared to recognize Caribbean immigrants and Caribbean Americans in the United States as what they are – a district…
United Nations photo competition for Caribbean small island developing states
From Caribbean News Now PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — The United Nations will launch a Caribbean SIDS (Small Island Developing States) photography competition. The UN Photo Competition for Caribbean SIDS will seek to raise awareness of the UN values in relation to…
How the digital revolution can fix scientific publishing and speed up discoveries
By Daniel Marovitz From Techcrunch Editor’s note: Daniel Marovitz is CEO of Faculty of 1000. Prior to that, he was the CEO and co-founder of buzzumi, a cloud, enterprise software company. Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing is big business….
T&T link in underwater drug trade
By Charles Kong Soo From Trinidad & Tobago Guardian The recent discovery of a cocaine-smuggling submarine in Guyana opens up the possibility that T&T, already a major transhipment for narcotics, could also be supplying bunkered diesel fuel for the illicit…
Smooth Sailin’: Time marches on, revolutions fade and politics bloom a new day
By Bob Tis From St Augustine Record It is super easy to ignore it, but we are citizens of the bigger world. And this world of ours, even this far north in Florida, is part of the Caribbean. Currently, there…
Defrocked Catholic bishop accused of sex abuse could be tried in Dominican Republic
From Caribbean360 VATICAN CITY, Italy, Friday August 29, 2014 – Josef Wesolowski, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the Dominican Republic where he is accused of sexually abusing young boys, has lost his diplomatic immunity and could be tried by a…
The whopper about global taxation
By Megan McArdle ,Bloomberg News From Stripes Jacob Levy, an American professor living in Montreal, made a point on Twitter last week that I wish more journalists would take to heart: If you’re writing about inversions, and you don’t prominently…
Cayman Islands National Gallery to remember Ivan – who really Was Terrible
Ivan Remembered Date: Saturday, September 06 at 8:00 AM to Saturday, September 27 at 6:00 PM National Gallery of the Cayman Islands Presents Ivan Remembered The 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Ivan Programme of Events Ivan Remembered sponsored by Fidelity –…
Can this transform the Caribbean?
By Ivan BrowneOp-Ed Contributor From Caribbean Journal In the immortal words of Montserratian singer/songwriter, Arrow, the Caribbean is “…feelin’ hot, hot, hot!” And, that’s a good thing. With a little help from Mother Nature, the islands of the Caribbean are…
President voices support for extending moratorium on maritime zone evictions
By Zach Dyer From Tico Times Residents along the beaches of Puerto Viejo and other parts of the southern Caribbean can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now. President Luis Guillermo Solís announced support for an extension of…
