Caribbean youths seek repeal of 6 nations’ anti-gay laws generation-change-image
From Repeating Islands Colin Stewart posted this story in his blog, Erasing 76 Crimes. Follow the link below for the blog, the original article, and a gallery of photographs form the meeting. Youthful leaders from Caribbean countries with anti-gay laws…
Trinidad & Tobago has third most inflexible expenditures in the Caribbean
By AleemKhan From Breaking News Trinidad & Tobago T&T has the third highest and most inflexible expenditures in the Caribbean, according to the latest available Inter-American Development Bank Quarterly Bulletin (May 2014). Barbados has the highest, and Jamaica has the…
Barbados downgraded three notches by Moody’s to B3 with negative outlook
By Keith Collister From Caribbean360 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday June 4, 2014 – Yesterday, the world’s second largest global credit rating agency, Moody’s, downgraded Barbados three rating notches to B3 from Ba3. Moody’s attaches numerical modifiers to each generic rating classification,…
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Cayman football coach jailed 4 years & 8 months for juvenile sex crime A well liked Cayman football coach who was recently convicted of defilement after having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl was sentenced to four years and…
EDITORIAL COMMENT From BN: Caribbean insurers continue to suffer from regulatory complexity
By Natan Levy From BN Americas The island nations of the Caribbean must face up to the reality that the status quo will not provide the much needed boost to further develop the region’s insurance markets. As the region welcomed…
Sand, sun & smart growth? Reframing the Caribbean as an urban region
By Greg Scruggs Dying downtowns, disaster recovery and selling politicians on the virtues of smart growth are familiar themes tossed about at your standard confab of urban professionals. But in this case, the downtowns in question are in places like…
Cayman takes first place
(CIEF) Once a year the Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation (“CIEF”) plays host to the best youth show jumpers in the Caribbean for the second round of the Caribbean Equestrian Federation’s Junior Show Jumping Competition. In the first round of the…
Caribbean island finds silver lining in climate change discussion
By Cate Devine, Senior Feature Writer & Food Writer From The Herald Scotland You may not imagine that a tiny country with a population of just 270,000 would be the venue for a global discussion on climate change. Most would…
Caribbean Island dinner
Queen Mary’s upcoming Caribbean Island dinner features Mount Gay Rum By Edward Simon From Examiner If there’s one kind of drink associated with ships, it is rum, with Mount Gay Rum from Barbados being prominent in most major sailboat races…
Team Cayman poised to preps for Caribbean showcase
From CIEF When you have guests at home, you tidy the house and plump up the sofa cushions. The equestrian equivalent is taking place with unparalleled eagerness at the Equestrian Centre on Linford Pierson Highway this week. Hedges are being…
