Supreme Court rules airline had right to dump frequent flier for excessive complaints
By Ashlee Kieler From Consumerist PHOTO: (Martin Rottler) It’s official: being a bad customer can get you booted from loyalty programs. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided it was within Northwest Airlines rights to dump a rabbi from…
New findings suggest ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ isn’t a modern forgery
By Mike Krumboltz, Yahoo News Analysis finds papyrus is ancient, but some remain skeptical In 2012, the discovery of a tattered papyrus fragment rocked the biblical studies community after some alleged its text proved that Jesus was married. Now tests…
Registration for Cayman Islands Government schools now open
The registration of students enrolling in or transferring to Government schools for the 2014/2015 school year is currently open and will close on Monday 23 June, 2014. Registration will take place at the Department of Education Services (GCM) and the…
Students Score in Commonwealth Competition
Seventeen local students from government and private schools received prizes for winning the 2013 Commonwealth Essay Competition, organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS). These include nine international competition winners that judges selected from among 11,000 entries from 55 Commonwealth…
OPINION: Sri Lanka – straining the Commonwealth
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 March 21 the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution requesting the UN Human Rights Commissioner to undertake “a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related…
Ex-Dominican leader has softer line on citizenship
By Matt Sedensky, From sfgate West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) — A former, and possibly future, president of the Dominican Republic said Tuesday that migrant children who were issued birth certificates should be granted citizenship in his country, a somewhat…
NYC: Mayor acknowledged the City failed Caribbean Teachers
By: Tony Best From Guyanese Online At Last a Mayor acknowledged the City failed Caribbean Teachers Almost two decades after hundreds of Caribbean teachers were first wooed to New York City classrooms but left in the lurch a Mayor has…
Despite US ties
By Michelle Loubon From Trinidad Express Newspapers “One foot in. One foot out.” Visiting Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Gladstone Christie said the Bahamas is often viewed by the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) and Caribbean nationals as having dual…
Caribbean ‘crumbling under poor leadership and divisive politics’
By Clive Bacchus From Caribbean News Now BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) — The humanization of power is the main affliction affecting good governance in the Caribbean, says Joan Purcell, author of the book A Vision for Change. “To begin with,…
“What do women like, a female or male OB/GYN?”
A new trend has developed regarding female patient preferences by the time they have to select the gender of their ObGyn. This trend indicates that women between the ages of 18-28, pre childbirth, are gravitating more towards a female ObGyn….
