How the mobile market is influencing purchasing trends
By Megan Ritter, iNews Cayman Guest Columnist It’s official — your phone is more important than parenthood and personal hygiene. With the advent of the smart phone, mobile usage is more popular than ever. People are buying mobile phones in…
51 years later Dr King’s dream remains unfulfilled
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday August 28, 2014 – I write this commentary on August 28, 2014 – fifty-one years after the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr made his famous speech, “I have a dream”…
Plane Diverted, Passengers Thrown Off Over Knee Defender Altercation
By hipstomp From core77 Last year we wrote about the Knee Defender, a pair of plastic gizmos that an airplane passenger can use to prevent the person in front of them from reclining. We wrote it up in utter dismayed…
A 9-year-old girl accidentally killed her gun instructor with an Uzi in Arizona
By Katie Zavadski From New York Mag A young girl sporting pink shorts and a long braid fatally shot her gun instructor on Monday, after the weapon she was firing recoiled in her hands. Charles Vacca, 39, died at a…
RSM to pay Saint Lucia’s legal costs, tribunal rules
From Office of the Prime Minister St Lucia The Government of Saint Lucia has won another round in the ongoing arbitration with RSM Production Corporation, the company owned by Jack Grynberg. On Aug. 13, 2014, the Arbitral Tribunal ordered RSM…
Here’s where we think the world’s nukes are stored — and what it says about global security
By Armin Rosen from Business Insider Nuclear security scholars Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris published a study of the worldwide deployment of nuclear weapons on August 27th in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, their first such survey…
Barbados, UNIDO to sign five-year partnership declaration
From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday August 28, CMC – Barbados will sign a five-year partnership declaration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) early next month. The agreement will be signed by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart on the side-lines…
IMF says Grenada still facing ‘significant challenges’
From Caribbean360 IMF-740ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Thursday August 28, 2014, CMC – An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation Wednesday ended a 10-day visit to Grenada warning that the local economy continues to face significant challenges from high unemployment, a large debt…
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Living in a Massy Barbados paradise
By Patrick Hoyos from Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday August 26, 2014 – As I drive around this beloved country of ours I find myself rapping to myself. Luckily for my fellow Barbadians, it is a silent rap, and it’s the…
Cayman Connection launch a huge success!
On Friday 22 August, Cayman Connection UK, a non-profit organization providing a platform for Caymanian students to network and connect in the UK, hosted its first reception in the Cayman Islands to celebrate the launch of it’s website. Cayman Connection…
