How to use WhatsApp, the messaging app that’s bigger than Facebook Messaging
By Ryan Bushey From Business Insider WhatsApp is an instant messaging service based in Santa Clara, Calif., that just reached 400 million monthly users. According to The Telegraph, WhatsApp sends 20 billion messages per day — double the size of…
Why Santa is silly
By Kevin Baldeosingh From Trinidad Express When you think about it, it seems absurd that even small children should believe in Santa Claus. Take the sleigh. All children know that, if you have to go on a long trip, you…
World-class service with Cayman Islands Interior Design
When you’re looking for Cayman Islands interior designs, it’s easy to feel like your choices are limited. Local interior designers seem focused on the high-end, working exclusively with residents and businesses on the islands themselves. But the best interior design…
Young man’s reaction to college acceptance is beautiful
By Neha Prakash From Mashable Rion Holcombe just got the letter of a lifetime. The 20-year-old, who lives with down syndrome, received his college acceptance letter recently — and his reaction is nothing short of heartwarming. “I got accepted?” They…
Caribbean and Drugs: Time for some healing?
By Robin Wigglesworth From Pulitzer Center Richard Thomas, a dreadlocked Jamaican sound engineer and musician, is still livid over the last time he was arrested and briefly jailed for smoking marijuana. While his country is plagued by one of the…
Google slapped with $1.2 million fine for breaking privacy laws
By Jacob Siegal From BGR Google is in trouble once again, and this time it’s not for something nearly as subtle as giant, mysterious barges floating in U.S. waters. Reuters reports that Google is being fined €900,000 ($1.23 million USD)…
Love, not licks
By Sheila Rampersad From Trinidad Express How it can be done It is legally and socially acceptable to assault children in their homes throughout the Caribbean. Except it is called “discipline”. But beating children is assault by definition—the act of…
EU flights now allow mobile devices, BA first out of the gate
By Hilary Bown From EuroCheapo There’s big news out of Europe for frequent air travelers who just can’t fly without their iPhones, iPads, and other mobile gadgets. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) announced that it would allow passengers to…
UDP loses ‘United’ but gains ‘Cayman Islands’
The United Democratic Party that lost the Cayman Islands May 2013 elections has also lost its ‘United’. No longer a ‘United’ party, maybe because it lost so many of its then sitting Members of the Legislative Assembly, it is now…
Rebecca Pearce isn’t the only exchange chief to resign after tropical vacation
April Todd-Malmlov resigned Tuesday as leader of Minnesota’s health exchange. By Sarah Gantz Reporter- Baltimore Business Journal Rebecca Pearce: You are not alone. In a scenario similar to what played out two weeks earlier in Maryland, the executive director of…
