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Day: August 27, 2011

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Man arrested after stabbing

Police have arrested a man in connection with a stabbing on West Bay Road.  Following an operation in East End, officers arrested a 25 year old man on suspicion of attempted murder.  He is currently being held in police custody…

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Man stabbed and another shot

A man has been stabbed and another shot in two separate incidents. At 2.45am a man was stabbed several times in the neck and body at the Islander Hotel on West Bay Road.  Just after 5am a teenager was shot…

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Can both the Auditor Generals be wrong?

Colin Wilson When I first arrived on these Islands thirty years ago the office of the Auditor General of the Cayman Islands was rarely, if at all, in the news. On the official Government website the office is described as:…

ISports

Gonzalez hits 2 HRs, Red Sox beat Rangers 6-0

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adrian Gonzalez and the Boston Red Sox powered their way to some payback in Texas. Gonzalez homered twice to give him five in four games, Andrew Miller pitched three-hit ball in a spot start and the…

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Couples tells Woods he’s on Presidents Cup team

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. (AP) — Fred Couples has told Tiger Woods that he decided to add him to the 12-member Presidents Cup team.  Couples took the drama out of the debate over whether Woods would be on the team, saying Thursday…

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Tax reprieve for US expats

US demands for money from anyone with a business, financial or other relationship to America have been delayed by one year after a global outpouring of protest to Washington. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), widely perceived as an…

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Hurricane stops play

By: Kevin Creary The ICC Americas Under 15 Central Division Championship Tour, held in Nassau Bahamas, which was the stomping ground for the Cayman Islands cricket team, has abruptly been stopped. After two wins, the Islands team was forced to…

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20 endangered Siamese crocodiles hatch in Laos

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — One of the world’s rarest crocodile species has moved a little bit further from extinction with the hatching of 20 wild eggs plucked from a nest found in southern Laos. Experts believe there could be as…

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LESSONS IN CARIBANA

Dave Martins I was living in Toronto, playing music full time with the Tradewinds band, when the annual Caribbean festival in Toronto known as Caribana was born in 1967. Today there are carnivals in a many cities outside the region,…

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Red Arrows delay after fatal crash

Poor weather has delayed the Red Arrows flying back to their base at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire after a fatal crash following a Dorset airshow. Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, died when his plane came down near Bournemouth…