Maples and Calder facilitates interview training for students
Maples and Calder is committed to supporting the Islands’ youth and guiding them towards a path of success. This year the firm expanded its reach by providing scholarship interview training for five local high school students. The mock interviews were…
Rare solar eclipse in [Caribbean], America, Europe and Africa
From BBC A rare solar eclipse allowing a view of the Sun that is totally or partially blocked by the Moon has taken place. It was first visible in the southern United States, before sweeping east across the Atlantic Ocean…
Proud Awards continue to highlight youth
The second round of the Proud of Them initiative shone a spotlight on the achievement of 12 new recipients yesterday (Thursday October 31, 2013). The new awardees are: Name Category District Age Abigail Stoddart Academics WB 21 Kimone…
Murder Case In Greenwich, Conn.
By Erin Fuchs Reuters/Douglas Healy From Business Insider The news last week that Kennedy relative Michael Skakel was getting a new trial for murder shocked legal experts and spurred at least one expert to say he still thinks Skakel is…
Falklands General Election: an important choice for a time of change
By John Fowler – MercoPress – Stanley The constitution of the Falkland Islands requires that a general election be held every four years to choose the eight members of the Islands’ Legislative Assembly or lower house of government. The next…
Tessanne Chin: ‘I have always dreamed big’
By Curtis Campbell, Jamaica Gleaner From Voice The Voice USA contestant says her success on the popular show does not discredit her achievements in Jamaica Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin says while her experience as a recording artist should help her…
HBO announces its November premieres in the Caribbean
• Mea Máxima Culpa (November 7) Examines reports of pedophilia within the Roman Catholic Church, focusing specifically on a group of men who alleged that they were abused as boys by a priest at a school for the deaf in…
Crazy ants might disrupt things in the Southeastern United States
By Evan Bleier From upi Said to be “much bigger pests” than fire ants. (UPI) — University of Texas researchers are concerned that “crazy ants” are going to severely disrupt the environmental balance in the Southeastern United States by wiping…
Vessels leave Portsmouth for annual ocean voyage
By Patrick Wilson The Virginian-Pilot © From PilotOnline.com The Hayes family had hoped to check out Olde Towne during their week at the Ocean Marine Yacht Center, but the Canadians had too much work to do getting their sailboat ready…
One expat survey Cayman is 4th and another is joint 2nd
Cayman highest ranking offshore centre in HSBC expat survey 1 November 2013 (Grand Cayman) – In a global comparison of countries conducted by HSBC’s Expat Explorer Survey for 2013, the Cayman Islands ranked fourth out of all countries when it…
