Tower wins silver in prestigious advertising awards
GRAND CAYMAN (20 May 2014) – Cayman’s leading marketing communications company, Tower, is delighted to announce its win of a Silver award in the Magazine Design category of the Caribbean Advertising Federation’s (CAF) ADDY awards, for their innovative design of…
Remembering
Joan Wilson I remember in days of yore when I was four Sitting on papa’s shoulders In and out of the warehouse Bees stinging making me sore. Running to and fro over the ironshore Taking rides on business…
Nexus Networks announces launch of premier lifestyle channel featuring island life
Producer and Journalist Jeanille Bonterre, Award-Winning Filmmaker Sean Michael Field Position Network as the Caribbean Connection to the World CAYMAN ISLANDS, Caribbean, May 20, 2014 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Nexus Networks, co-founded by MTV TEMPO’s Jeanille Bonterre and award-winning filmmaker…
Letter to the Editor
By Quincy Brown Two Caymanians to be ordained I have been invited to attend two ordination ceremonies during the month of May. The first is for a young man named Joseph Kirkconnell. His official ordination to the Priesthood will take…
In pursuit of the Caribbean’s hidden dangers
By Jeffrey Marlow From WIRED An octopus lingers near a bed of giant mussels discovered at a new methane seep in the Caribbean Sea. (Image: Ocean Exploration Trust) The world’s oceans are a source of wonderment, sustenance, and, at times,…
Jailed Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton warns against Trinidad scam
From Caribbean360 KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Concert promoters in Trinidad and Tobago are being warned that they should not pay funds to an individual posing as the authorized agent for incarcerated reggae star, Buju Banton. “A certain individual in Trinidad…
Tsunami conspiracy theories in the Caribbean
By Martín De Ambrosio From SciDevNet [ST THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS] As soon as I arrived at last week’s meeting on tsunami science here in the Caribbean, I encountered two delegates who shared a worrying rumour with me: “Somebody knows something…
Costa Rica has the 4th highest rate of alcoholism in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Corey Kane From The Tico Times The beer-loving Central American country had the fourth highest rate of alcohol dependence in the region, though it was not significantly higher than the regional average. The World Health Organization (WHO) published a…
The Caribbean colony that brought down Scotland
By Allan Little BBC News, Darien, Panama As Scotland prepares for an independence referendum I decided to look back at the late 1690s when an independent Scotland launched an ambitious but ultimately doomed plan to create a colony in what…
Rivers and Connolly say their first year in MEE&GA has been ‘very productive’
Cayman Islands Ministry of Education, Employment & Gender Affairs progress report: May 29, 2014 marks one year since Hon. Tara Rivers, Minister, and Mr. Winston Connolly, Councillor, joined the Ministry of Education, Employment & Gender Affairs (MEE&GA). During the past…
