Archive for July 6th, 2016
NOAA reef-health expert joins CCMI team
(CNS): Dr Karsten Shein, a climatologist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has been awarded a Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) research fellowship to help the organisation in its work understanding reef health. Dr Shein has led several major international scientific projects, and at CCMI’s Little Cayman Research Centre, he has installed environmental […]
Students add colour to nature trail
(CNS): Students from John A Cumber and Prospect Primary schools have created brightly coloured signs for all the different kinds of indigenous plants that can be seen at the Blue Hole Nature Trail at the Cayman Turtle Farm (CTF). Geddes Hislop, curator of the CTF terrestrial exhibits, spearheaded the project. “The Blue Hole Nature Trail […]
Flowers brings Haven back to Cayman
(CNS): Almost a decade after premiering Haven, his first feature-length film, in the Cayman Islands, Frankie Flowers returned for a special screening of the movie at a gala to open the Cayman International Film Festival on Friday, 1 July. The main ballroom at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman was packed for the screening, which comes just […]