New Hampshire hospital may have exposed patients to an incurable, terrifying brain disease
By Jennifer Welsh Business Insider PHOTO: #1 Wikipedia/Sbrandner There’s a small chance that 13 patients in and around New Hampshire were exposed to an extremely rare, terrifying, and deadly degenerative brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to a state health…
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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…
All the world’s an island: Correspondent Carol-Ann covers the Globe with only a back pack Part 7
By Carol-Ann Rudy The Treasures and Pleasures of Antwerp and Bruges On the train from Switzerland through Germany overnight, I woke up to find myself traveling briefly through The Netherlands. Couldn’t see much from the train of the fabled windmills…
Here’s evidence that insanely long prison terms are a bad way to deter crime
By Corey Adwar From Business Insider A wide-ranging new report from the National Research Council on mass incarceration in the United States finds that lengthy prison sentences are not the best way to deter crime. From 1972 to 2012, the…
Central bank governor: Caricom trade policy ‘nonsense’
CSME problems: Dr DeLisle Worrell Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados Dr DeLisle Worrell has made it clear he is not a fan of the wholesale free movement of people in Caricom. Worrell, one of the region’s leading economists,…
Cayman Water leak detection tracer method project
1. Summary- Cayman Water’s (CW) “tracer method” leak detection project is designed to detect and pinpoint water leaks in CW buried water mains. The method employed is to use inert helium gas as a tracer material. 2. Purpose- The project…
‘Beautiful’ sponge threatens reefs
By Ken Kaye From Sun Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s such a vibrant orange that divers think it’s part of South Florida’s colorful coral reefs. But it’s a destructive sponge that for the past decade has been spreading and…
Jamaica announces technical staff appointments
KINGSTON, Jamaica— With an abundance of international engagements on the horizon, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) announced Wednesday a series of coaching appointments. Men’s national team head coach Winfried Schaefer has a new assistant in Miguel Coley, who guided Jamaica…
Church blames families for societal breakdown
By Tanesha Mundle From Jamaica Observer Pointing to examples of social and moral decay in the country, the New Testament Church of God in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands recently launched a programme intended to reduce the incidence of divorce…
Celebrating 30 years of Apple
Celebrating 30 years of Apple – their 1st employees By Jim Edwards From Business Insider “These pictures of Apple’s first employees are absolutely wonderful” PHOTO: Apple Inc. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak working in their garage. The year was 1977….
