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New and improved Hebrew School coming soon in the Cayman Islands An announcement on the Chabad of the Cayman Islands website: http://www.chabadcaymanislands.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/2053720/jewish/Hebrew-School.htm says: “Coming soon. Our new and improved Hebrew School.” “The Chabad Hebrew School is a place where the…
Black History Month 2014: The Plain of Cul-de-Sac
By Hunter Wallace From Occidental Haiti The year is 1899. Hesketh Prichard, a British explorer, adventurer, and travel writer, has arrived in Haiti to see with his own eyes the land where “the law of the world is reversed, and…
Nonsensical Cuba embargo
7 Reasons the nonsensical Cuba embargo has got to go From The Huffington Post More than half of Americans want to put the U.S. embargo on Cuba to rest, according to a poll released this week by the Atlantic Council,…
Port development requires the Caribbean to look outwards
By David Jessop, The View from EUROPE From The Jamaican Gleaner In the last few years, almost every significant Caribbean country has announced that they are upgrading their port facilities and preparing to compete to attract the larger post-panamax vessels…
Cuba frees jailed Canadian businessman
From Washington Post TORONTO — A Canadian businessman who served 2 1/2 years of a 9-year prison sentence in Cuba for corruption has abruptly returned to Canada. Sarkis Yacoubian, president of Tri-Star Caribbean import company, said Saturday that he’s extremely…
Mexico defeats Cuba in its return to Caribbean Series
By Special Envoy Yasiel Cancio Vilar From Presna Latina Porlamar, Venezuela, Feb 2 (Prensa Latina) Mexcicans Naranjeros de Hermosillo outshone Cuba’s return to the Caribean Series of baseball, defeating on Saturday the orange team of Santa Clara 9-4 in Maragrita…
Cuban boat people land in Cayman, headed for Honduras
By Peter Polack Reuters From Chicago Tribune News GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) – A 30-foot (9 meter) sailboat with about 30 Cuban refugees aboard docked in the Cayman Islands on Sunday and passengers said they were hoping to reach Honduras….
Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina Reef—A Beacon of Hope in the Caribbean
By Lauretta Burke From World Resources Institute A coral reef in Cuba isn’t just a tourist destination—it can be a lesson in effective ecosystem management. I recently visited Cuba at the invitation of “The Ocean Doctor,” an NGO led by…
Editor of Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper defects to US
From Caribbean360 Granma’s former international news editor criticised the state media monopoly and said censorship caused “a crisis of credibility” between the public and the media. FLORIDA, United States, Thursday January 23, 2014 – Aida Calviac Mora, a former senior…
Scientists: Cuba quake unusual, but recent Caribbean activity fairly typical
By David Smiley From Miami Herald The Enriquillo and Septentrional faults lie between the Caribbean and North American plates, which move against each other and make for an active seismic area in the Caribbean. That friction caused Monday morning’s quake…
