Gadget of the week
iRobot’s cloud-connected Roomba 980 is smart enough to map floors By Devindra Hardawar From engadget Two years ago, iRobot got rid of bristles with the Roomba 880. Now, the company is making its iconic vacuum cleaning robot even smarter with…
Cayman Islands youth teams gain valuable experience in Las Vegas Tournament
From CIYFP The Under 16 team from the Cayman Islands Youth Football Programme and the Alliance FC Under 17 girls’ team returned to Grand Cayman on Wednesday, February 17 after competing in the 2016 Mayor’s Cup International Showcase in Las…
Computers transform Edmonton in winter to Caribbean disaster area for army training mission
By David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen From National Post Canada EDMONTON – Canadian Forces Maj. Damon Dyer points to a map dotted with icons showing dozens of military units on the move against the enemy. “It’s February and it’s 25 degrees…
Tourism Matters: One of the best presented meetings
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean News Now I was fortunate enough to be invited to the recently held minister of tourism breakfast press conference and, trying to put partisan politics aside, in my humble opinion it was one of the…
Toilet problems causes BA flight from Bahamas to London to land in Canada
By JOHN HUTCHINSON FOR MAILONLINE British Airways plane en-route to London from the Bahamas diverts to Canada due to ‘problem with the toilet’ Flight 252 had set out of Nassau in the Bahamas en route to Heathrow Airline says it…
Cayman Islands public asked to comment on “Bullying”
Bullying Issues The Cayman Islands Law Reform Commission submits for stakeholder and public comment an Issues Paper entitled “Bullying: Legislation, Policy or Both?” In the Paper, several issues are identified and questions raised with respect to the occurrence of bullying…
‘Canada is only a big Caribbean country:’ Response from China expert
By Douglas Todd From The Vancouver Sun UBC planning professor emeritus Setty Pendakur, who has been to Mainland China 86 times to advise the government, was recently quoted in The Vancouver Sun saying “Canada is only a big Caribbean country,”…
Canadian High Commissioner pays courtesy visit to Cayman Islands
Mr. Sylvain Fabi, Consul General to the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos and High Commissioner of Canada to Jamaica and for the Bahamas, paid a courtesy visit to Cayman Islands Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin Friday, 22 January, 2016. Joining…
Canada’s war on drugs in the Caribbean had a very good year
By Ben Makuch From Vice News Unbeknownst to some, Canada has been waging a war on cocaine traffickers in the Caribbean — and it just netted a record haul. The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) announced the conclusion of its anti-narco…
Meet the gay Kittitian man Canada wants to deport
By Arshy Mann for DailyXtra , From Times Caribbean Online Rolston Ryan is a gay man. That’s not in dispute. Back in St Kitts and Nevis, where gay sex is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, he was…





