Three Dead in Cruise Ship Fire [St Lucia dock]
From St Lucia Times Three persons are reported dead following an engine room fire on board the cruise vessel, Insignia, which was berthed in the Castries harbor, well placed sources have told the Times. According to the sources, two of…
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Cayman Islands police ‘Christmas Crackdown’ nets many offenders on first day From RCIPS The first day of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Services (RCIPS) holiday crack down on bad driving saw 39 persons prosecuted Island wide for various traffic offences,…
Cayman Islands Beach Bash flag football tournament announced
The Cayman Islands Flag Football Association has announced it is staging its sixth annual competition, Beach Bash 6, on Jan 3rd at the Public Beach from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. The event was initially scheduled for Dec 6th. The…
Smokers quit thanks to new Cayman Islands health propgramme
From Cayman Islands Health Services Authority Having participated in a new smoking cessation programme run by the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority’s (HSA) Public Health Department, fifty percent of those participants who completed the course managed to kick the habit,…
The Editor Speaks: What we are told is not always 100% the truth
The stunning news yesterday of the terrible things the CIA carried out under the George W. Bush administration, called then the “Enhanced Interrogation” programme and now finally called “torture”, is another example of what we are first told is not…
The complexity of the ‘Google Tax’ risks creating new loopholes
By Richard Edgar Economics Editor From ITV uk That update I promised on the Google tax legislation published this morning…. It’s taken a while because I’ve had to wade through scores of pages and, as one expert told me: “It…
Gidget Powell is October’s best Cayman Islands government employee
The special attention that Assistant Collector of Customs Gidget Powell pays to serving the public has earned her the Deputy Governor’s Award for Employee of the Month for October 2014. Her superiors describe the model civil servant of more than…
Digicel Business extends partnership with Masergy into the area of Data Security
Thursday, 11th December 2014 – Grand Cayman: Digicel Business has announced that it is extending its partnership with Masergy Communications Inc. to now offer an advanced ‘Security as a Service’ solution to businesses across Cayman. The solution, which is a…
The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. announces results of heavily oversubscribed rights offering
MIAMI BEACH, FL, Dec 08, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. CUBA, -1.54% (the “Fund”) is pleased to announce the completion and success of its one-for-three non-transferable rights offering which expired on December 4, 2014,…
There’s a mysterious meteor shower happening this weekend
By Jessica Orwig From Business Insider This weekend is your chance to see an amazing, and equally mysterious, meteor shower called the Geminids meteor shower. “The Geminids are my favorite,” said NASA Astronomer Bill Cooke in a release, “because they…
