The world’s best hotel restaurants in 2014 [#7 is in Cayman Islands]
By CNN Staff From KTUU It’s a familiar refrain among jet-lagged travelers, usually accompanied by a despondent shrug. “Well, I guess we could just grab a quick bite at the hotel.” Hotel restaurants have long had a reputation for offering…
Jonathan Franzen: ‘Egypt is the worst place to be a migratory bird’
NatureUp By Adam Welz From The Guardian UK US author sounds warning over Egyptian trapping that kills millions of birds as they migrate from Europe into Africa One of the photos shows a Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix) caught in a…
iNews Briefs
Remembrance Day this weekend in Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands Protocol Office has announced that Remembrance Day annual service takes place on Sunday, 9 November 2014, at 10:45 am, on Harbour Drive in front of Elmslie Memorial Church. The general…
It’s farewell season for several ships in the Caribbean
By Theresa Norton Masek From Travel Pulse It’s farewell season in the Caribbean as several cruise ships are operating their final winter program in the sunny islands. Seabourn will bid goodbye to two of its smaller luxury yachts in the…
All the world’s an island: Correspondent Carol-Ann covers the Globe with only a back pack Part 8 -FINAL
By Carol-Ann Rudy Frankfurt, Friedberg, and Flying Home! One day. One day in Granada, one day on the Mediterranean, in Rome, Venice, Vienna, Antwerp, Bruges, and six days in Paris at the beginning of my journey. Now I was in…
The flushing toilet is symbolic of one of the biggest investing opportunities of this generation
By Akin Oyedele From Business Insider Investors should consider multinational companies that are exposed to the booming middle class in emerging markets. US Trust’s Joseph Quinlan wrote in a note to clients that it is “time to buy” into global…
Caribbean governments must take steps to remain secure in face of terrorism threat
By David Jessop · From Stabroek News Four weeks ago, this column urged the Caribbean to begin to think the unthinkable. It suggested that there are some individuals whose values are not those of the vast majority and who mean…
Scientists find Indonesian cave art is among the world’s oldest
By University of Wollongong From noodls A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists has dated some of the world’s earliest known cave art on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, challenging the commonly held view that Europeans were the first to…
Ebola: Why such Indifference to West Africa?
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday October 9, 2014 – Is the global response to Ebola in West Africa indifference? Whatever it is, the response of governments has been abysmal with the single exception of Cuba whose…
Studying medicine abroad in English – Caribbean and Europe
By Dr. Moshe Cohen From The Student Doctor Network Over the past decade, there has been a rise in North American applications to English-taught medical programs abroad. The competitive nature of medical school admissions and studies, coupled with expensive tuition…