Cayman: MRCU suspends aerial spraying due to Sahara dust plume
he Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) advises the public that aerial spraying in response to heightened mosquitoes levels will be paused due to conditions brought on by the Sahara dust plume. This is to prevent material released by MRCU…
Gordon J Solomon News
Cayman: Gordon J Solomon June 2020 Newsletter During the early 1900’s the people of Cayman, especially Cayman Brac, would have witnessed plumes of smoke rising to the North East of the islands, from the cane fields in the district of…
Coronavirus: LAW360 Jun 24 Briefing
From Media & Entertainment Law360 Wednesday, June 24, 2020 TOP NEWS Clients’ Speed Paying Bills Could Make Or Break Law Firms A report out Tuesday shows law firms have fared “surprisingly well” financially during the coronavirus pandemic so far, but…
IMF WEO Global Growth Forecast
he International Monetary Fund is downgrading global growth significantly in its latest update to the World Economic Outlook forecast, with the COVID-19 pandemic setting the world economy back by $12 trillion in lost potential, the Fund’s chief economist Gita Gopinath…
Cayman: Elections Office open for voter registration
Beginning Monday, 29 June, the Elections Office at 68 West Bay Road, George Town will be open to the public Monday to Friday from 9am to 4pm. Wednesday, 1 July is the final day to register to vote or update…
Analysing baseline data to assess the impact of COVID-19 on households
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 — At the request of the OECS Member States of Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis, the OECS Commission, through its Statistical Services Unit, partnered with the World Bank to deliver technical assistance in data analysis. The…
Caribbean Airlines performance update
Piarco, Trinidad & Tobago, June 24 2020: Caribbean Airlines can report that the first quarter of 2020 was on course to be another successful period of performance, prior to the impact of COVID-19 in March. Caribbean Airlines performance for January…
FCA to get new powers for Libor “tough legacy” contracts
By Douglas Thomson From GBRR The UK is set to pass new legislation granting its Financial Conduct Authority new powers to manage the transition away from the Libor benchmark – including specific rules for handling “tough legacy” contracts. Chancellor of…
WHO Virtual Press Conference: Director-General’s opening remarks and audio file available – COVID-19 – 24 June
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. More than 9.1 million cases of COVID-19 have now been reported to WHO, and more than 470,000 deaths. In the first month of this outbreak, less than 10,000 cases were reported to WHO….
Cayman: UCCI experiments with virtual labs
Antoinette Gayle has created something in the lab she didn’t think was possible. “If someone said to me in January, ‘Can we do chemistry and physics with distance learning?’ I would have said no,” said Gayle, an assistant professor in…


















