Estimating your start-up business costs
Before you take out a second mortgage, use these rules to figure out the realistic costs of setting up a business. Most lending banks insist you have to have a business plan. When you have one that’s not the beginning…
Anne – Part 36
We continue our serialisation of Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson “Annet. You are like a stone.” “Then throw me away.” At that early season the passengers were seldom pleasure-travellers, and therefore they endured the delay philosophically. It is only the…
Music camp helps kids
Bells, drums and tambourines are simple percussion instruments, but for a group of 17 special needs children they were both music makers and therapy tools that made a huge difference in their summer. The children participated with their siblings in…
Bodden and McLean speak out
The PPM’s motion of a lack of confidence (no confidence) in the UDP Government is a political maneuver. All the issues in that motion are normally debated in the throne and budget speech which debate was just two months ago….
Supporting 50 years of Cayman Red Cross
Local law firm, Higgs & Johnson recently made a donation to the Cayman Islands Red Cross (CIRC) as the CIRC celebrates 50 years of service to the Cayman Islands. A September to Remember is the title for the Cayman Islands…
Security tightens for 9/11 anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is escalating security around the country in preparation for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and conducting confidential briefings with state and local law enforcement organizations. But officials say there is no…
A young life wasted – Jeremiah Barnes
Jeremiah Barnes should have been starting school this week. He would have been five years old and running around the yard playing happily with his friends, not a care in the world. Instead there will be a spare place in…
Suicide car bomb kills 10 in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked Shiite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday as they were heading home after morning prayers at the start of an Islamic holiday. The blast killed 10 people, officials said. The attack…
