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Cayman Islands News, Articles and InformationPakistan's Exports To 83 Countries Substantially DownContrary to the government's claims, country's exports to 83 countries where Pakistan was doing better in the past, have shown a decline, according to export receipts data prepared by the State Bank of Pakistan for the period July 2005-January 2006. The commerce ministry on trade policy had fixed the export target of $17 billion for the current fiscal year and so far exports have reached $15 billion, posing a gigantic task for ministry and Export Promotion Bureau to register the export of $2 billion by June 30, 2006 which seems remote keeping in view the exports trend in the last one and half months of fiscal years in the past. .
Hurricanes may affect Cayman every yearAS nationals get ready to observe the second anniversary of one of its most destructive storms, the Met Office disclosed that the Cayman Islands is likely to face a hurricane every year.In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused destruction of properties, severe flooding and countless animals died on Grand Cayman - the largest of the three Islands. Three months shy of the anniversary comes word from the Met Office that the Islands could be affected by four hurricanes every five years given the current weather predictions. At a recent disaster preparation workshop in Grand Cayman, the weather experts said that they could not predict for sure if or when a storm would hit any of the Islands. Participants at the recent workshop were introduced to a new storm surge monitoring equipment specifically suited to the low-lying British territory. Take a Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road With Humorist and New ...Texas humorist Diana Estill releases her first book, Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road (Brown Books Publishing). This compilation of 55 amusing tales recently earned a four-star review from ForeWord Clarion reviews. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) May 25, 2006 -- To get where you want to go, sometimes you have to change course. That message was driven home for Texas author and newspaper columnist Diana Estill when she vacationed in Grand Cayman, where cars keep left—and tourists frequently forget. In her first book, Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road: Humorous Views on Love, Lust, and Lawn Care (Brown Books Publishing Group, Inc.), the author shares her admittedly skewed views on everything from foreign car rentals to designer dogs and toilet repairs. The book, which hilariously details the experience of driving a British "Beanmobile" in the left lane, is scheduled for release June 10, 2006.
Diaspora and the ChurchTHE DIASPORA Conference is over and it is now time to evaluate the achievements of the conference and the plans and programmes to sustain the link between Jamaicans a' yard and abroad.I remember being invited to and attending the first conference held at the University of the West Indies. After the conference, I told the minister responsible that the Church's outlook was being sidelined because the conference's bibliography on Jamaica did not include even one reference on Christianity. I wonder what has changed since then. Jamaica and the leaders within the diaspora foundation can ignore the contribution that the Church could make to their peril. Even before the first government-sponsored Diaspora Conference, Jamaican-born Joel Edwards, general secretary of the U.K. Evangelical Alliance, Europe's largest, richest and most influential evangelical alliance, hosted a multi-sector conference at the Jamaica High Commission in London to fashion a strategy of transatlantic cooperation that could lead to a prosperous and peaceful Jamaica.
Feeding effects studiedA Nova Southeastern University graduate student has just completed what is believed to be the first direct study of the effects of human feeding on marine wildlife.Mark Corcoran, 29, successfully defended his master's thesis last month in Dania Beach on the Cayman Islands' most popular tourist attraction, Stingray City and the Sandbar, where as many as 3,000 people per day interact with Southern stingrays. The two-year study, funded by the Guy Harvey Research Institute, found that supplemental feeding changes the activity patterns, feeding habits and even reproduction of stingrays. ''Now they are fed mostly frozen squid from California,'' Corcoran said. ``They wouldn't eat a squid in their natural environment -- mainly blue crabs and shrimp.'' Corcoran and colleagues tagged and tracked more than 150 stingrays, comparing those that frequented the knee-deep Sandbar and the 15-foot deep Stingray City dive site in North Sound with unfed wild rays from South Sound and other habitats.
Award-winning film-maker Jill is on a High over Bermuda caverns ...BERMUDA'S underwater caverns are to be mapped as part of an ambitious project involving one of the world's foremost cave divers. Likely to showcase regions of the island never seen before, the study will be completed over the next year, its various stages filmed as a documentary Bermuda High.Bermuda's schoolchildren will be invited to participate in the monumental task, presented with special technology that will enable them to track the movements of the divers from above ground. The project is being driven by the Bermuda Aquarium Museum & Zoo, former natural history curator Wolfgang Sterrer and cave expert Tom Iliffe. To aid its completion, they've brought onboard an award-winning film-maker who also happens to be one of the world's top cave divers Jill Heinerth. This week she spoke with Mid-Ocean News reporter HEATHER WOOD and photographer GLENN TUCKER about her underwater exploits. South African public wants shark feeding, shark cage diving stoppedCAPE TOWN, South Africa (10 June 2006) -- The city of Cape Town wants the expansion of the Great White shark cage diving industry stopped until scientific evidence irrefutably shows that it does not increase the risk of shark attacks or harm the shark ecology.So says the City in comment on the draft Great White Shark Cage Diving Policy and Regulations. There have been nine shark attacks, three of which were fatal, since 2000. The public feels such attacks are the result of the conditioning of Great Whites, meaning baiting and chumming methods such as those used in the cage diving industry, which increase the danger of shark attacks, according to Gregg Oelofse, of the City's environmental resource management department. Oelofse said some studies have suggested that there is actually no conditioning of sharks as a result of cage diving, but that there is a need for ongoing research.
International Museum Day a successThe heavens opened and the rain poured down, as thunder cracked the skies. But the opening ceremony for International Museum Day on Cayman Brac carried on regardless.Musicians from the Cayman Brac High School (CBHS) Band and the CBHS Steel Pan Band played on under canopies that provided minimal protection from the slicing rain. Following all the normal prayers and welcomes given to those hardy residents who remained, the two Sister Islands MLAs, Julianna OConnor-Connolly and Moses Kirkconnell offered their remarks and the Leader of Government Business, the Hon Kurt Tibbetts gave the main address. As the opening ceremony came to a close, and the celebrations officially began, the rain finally stopped. International Museum Day has been celebrated all over the world since 1977 on or close to 18 May. The Power of CollaborationProactive Destination Management and Promotion, showcased through Caribbean Week in New York, June 10-17, displayed a celebration of sights, sounds, colors, cultural and unique vacation attributes of the Caribbean. Tourism Officials, the media, artists, performers, celebrity chefs, sponsors and strategic partners converge on New York for a week of Caribbean hospitality and vacation special offers. Arranged by the Caribbean Tourism Organization, the Week combined business meetings and sponsored events with fashion, food, entertainment and two Caribbean weddings! The week culminated with the popular Governments of the Caribbean State Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Caribbean Week in New York attracted over 10,000 participants. In addition, extensive media coverage of the various events reached local and national audiences in the millions. |
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