Davin Ebanks wins NG award with catboat sculpture
From The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands Davin Ebanks’s interpretation of an iconic Caymanian symbol, the catboat, is the winner of National Gallery’s Cayman sculpture competition. Mr. Ebanks will receive a $10,000 grand prize and financing for the production…
Quotable Caribbean
From The Dallas Weekly “Meeting with the industry’s leading cruise industry authorities is a key strategy to bringing more ships to our destination. As a result of this presentation, we were able to answer questions, change perceptions and spark important…
LIAT threat to shrink Caribbean Airline Network
By Robert MacLellan From Spice Islander The board of LIAT airline is clearly feeling the pressure of mounting ongoing criticism of its consistent inability to achieve a stable business model and to provide a vital intra regional air service in…
Were the phones on Flight MH370 ever connected?
By Lance Ulanoff from Mashable It’s been more than a week since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, flying out of Malaysia and bound for Beijing, China, disappeared. The search for the plane, now part of a criminal investigation, spans thousands and…
OPINION: St Vincent & Grenadines – Who gets paid and who gets knocked?
By Peter Binose From Caribbean 360 The St Vincent and the Grenadines economy is worse than a leaking bucket, it’s now like a bucket where the bottom has completely fallen out, better described as rotted out says Peter Binose. KINGSTOWN,…
It’s not just Tesla: Why dealers are wary of electric cars
By Todd Wasserman From Mashable For a guy who is supposed to be selling electric cars, Mike Kelly isn’t a big fan. Kelly, a car dealer in Erie, Pa., who also happens to represent his district in Congress, said in…
A fitter and more adventurous generation leaps, climbs, and pedals into retirement
By Tara Bahrampour, From Washington Post A generation ago, Americans’ idea of retirement travel might have involved a Caribbean cruise, a casino vacation or a European shopping trip. It would not have typically included trekking in the Himalayas, clearing invasive…
Crime & violence in Latin America & The Caribbean
By Chaka Phillips From Latin Post How to cope with it using a human face The underlying causes of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region stems from drugs, inflation, poverty, unemployment, and lack of social…
90,000 Inner City Jamaicans to benefit from improved services and crime prevention
By S Coward From World Bank WASHINGTON, March 14, 2014 – More than 80,000 Jamaican citizens will benefit from improved services, basic infrastructure and targeted crime and violence interventions in 18 vulnerable inner-city communities as a result of US$42 million…
Message in a bottle writer traced back to Middle Tennessee
By Josh Cross From The Tennessean Illinois man found bottle on a small island in the Turks and Caicos after it was thrown from cruise ship When it was opened, the envelope located inside a wine bottle Bob Buffington found…
