St George’s Anglican Church to show live coverage of Bishop Gregory’s enthronement
Lord Bishop-elect of the Anglican Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, Rt. Rev. Dr. Howard Kingsley Ainsworth Gregory will be enthroned on Thursday, May 17 as the 14th Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and the sixth native…
Column: Olympic first, a home from home in London
AP) — Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle into their rooms at London’s new, purpose-built Olympic Village this July. And, in…
Greek coalition talks fail
Greece is set to go to the polls again after days of coalition talks failed to produce agreement on a new government, says the leader of the Socialist Pasok party, Evangelos Venizelos. A final round of talks on Tuesday morning…
FIFA goalkeeping course gets high marks
BRACO, Trelawny — The Regional Instructor’s Goalkeeping Course put on by FIFA last week has been described as informative by participants drawn from 19 CONCACAF nations, including Jamaica. “It is our duty as coaches now to go back to our…
Antivirus software pioneer arrested by Belize police
This story appeared in Caribbean News Now (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) (Caribbean News Now (Grand Cayman) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 05— BELMOPAN, Belize — Software pioneer John McAfee, whose name is virtually synonymous with computer antivirus software, is…
The Editor Speaks: Kenneth Bryan
I read with some surprise that news journalist Kenneth Bryan of CITN/Cayman 27 fame has resigned from the television station because he is considering trying his hand at politics. Reading one of the usual less informed blogs on Cayman’s favorite…
Florida mom killed 4 kids, then herself
(AP) A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbour back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said. Thirty-three-year-old Tonya Thomas…
Ex-tabloid boss Brooks faces phone hacking charges
(AP) — One of Rupert Murdoch’s most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged Tuesday with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain’s media and political elite uncomfortably close…
Sharon Roulstone appeals for everyone to come out and vote
In a passionate plea to the voting public of the Cayman Islands, Sharon Roulstone, one of the campaign co-ordinators for the ‘One Man, One Vote’ (OMOV) campaign said, “Anyone who stays at home on polling day will be voting ‘no’.”…
