“Catch a Fire” changed reggae music’s historyREGGAE music’s history would not be the same without the Bob Marley’s album Catch a Fire, said Professor Mike Alleyne from the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University in the United States—as Basil Waters reports in Jamaica’sGleaner. Barbados-born Alleyne was speaking at the 15th Bob Marley lecture held at the Neville Hall [...]
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 3:59 pm View post
Getting Married In the Cayman Islands — Marriage License For Non ResidentsPlanning on being married while in the Cayman Islands? A destination wedding or getting married while visiting by cruise ship could not be more romantic and relatively simple. The wedding venues are endless with miles of sandy white beach, lovely parks, private yachts, hotels and restaurants. Plus, there is no waiting period. You can get [...]
This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 6:48 pm View post
Happy Hour: MicheladaAccording to one taco hunter, at an authentic taquería, “ordering a Corona is a gringo move” and you’re much better off with a Michelada instead. This refreshing Mexican beer cocktail is the perfect compliment to spicy foods. This recipe was inspired by Roger Toll’s article in the March 2011 issue of Caribbean Travel + Life, The Taco Hunter. According to [...]
This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 2:46 pm View post
Nature’s Call to Cayman BracWhat’s there to see and do on a remote Caribbean island that’s just 12 miles long and two miles wide, population 1,500? Most visitors to Cayman Brac — the middle child in the family of three islands that make up the Cayman Islands — are pleasantly surprised. For nature lovers and adventurers, it’s paradise found. [...]
This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 5:11 pm View post
Cayman’s PearlsThey’re rare, exotic and a true Caribbean treasure. Pearls produced by the queen conch — a marine mollusk hailed for its beautiful pink shell and in-demand edible meat — are a sought-after gem. The odds of finding this hidden gemstone are extremely low: about one in 10,000 conchs produce a pearl, and less than 10 [...]
This entry was posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 3:37 pm View post
Cayman Islands: Green iguanas invading Sister IslandsResidents of Cayman Brac and Little Cayman are reporting sightings of green iguanas in the Islands, Norma Connolly reports in compasscayman.com. The iguanas have been an increasingly common presence in Grand Cayman during the last decade, but until recent years, it appeared they had not made the crossing to the Sister Islands. Department of Environment [...]
This entry was posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 9:55 pm View post
Award-Winning Style: Sewing Her Way to SuccessHer spirit is as colourful as the many costumes she has designed and sewn for carnival revellers around the world. Born in the district of West Bay in 1954, Reba Dilbert grew up with a pair of scissors in hand and her six siblings stepping in as her models. Decades later, she continues to draw [...]
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 3:36 pm View post
Caribbean yields deepest-ever ‘black smoker’ ventsResearch offers new clues to sea-floor formation, dispersal of deep-ocean organisms British oceanographers and biologists say a group of volcanic vents on the Caribbean seafloor are the deepest discovered to-date, and another field of vents on a nearby submerged mountain suggests that so-called black smoker hydrothermal ventsmay be much more common than previously believed. The vents [...]
This entry was posted on Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 3:00 pm View post
Finding Inner PeaceWhenever I feel overly stressed, I lace up my running shoes and sprint down the road for a few miles to clear my head. I’m not sure why exactly, but when I return I find all the thoughts that were bouncing around in my brain have settled and things have become clearer. The other morning, [...]
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 4:37 pm View post
Afro-Cuban priests make predictions for 2012A body of top Afro-Cuban priests is predicting a year of change and upheaval in 2012, but the group says fears the world will end are wrong, the Associated Press reports. In their annual New Year’s forecast, the priests warned the world could see more earthquakes and increased global warming, and they cautioned that people [...]
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 7:59 pm View post