Terror at Television Station
One of the accompanying photos is of architect Rupert Ackermon’s impression of how the Television Centre was invisaged to look when it started construction in 1994. It did look like it at first but as time has passed by its…
Beryl Is Strengthening & May Become A Hurricane Before Landall This Evening
Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather (www.crownweather.com) said this morning (Sun 27) Tropical Storm Beryl: Indications all morning and into early this afternoon are that Beryl is tightening up and strengthening according to radar and satellite imagery. I do have concerns…
WestStar TV robbed: UPDATE – Reward offered
WestStar TV have just announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the robbers. George Town detectives investigating an armed robbery at WestStar TV have released photographs of two of the suspects and the getaway…
Auditor General slams CINICO and CINICO replies
The Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, made public yesterday (23) a performance audit report on the “Management of Overseas Medical Services.” The Cayman Islands Government is currently spending approximately $30 million a year on overseas medical care. In his report, Mr….
Customs Collector Retiring
After a distinguished career spanning 40 years, Collector of Customs, Mr. Carlon Powery, MBE, JP, will be retiring on 31 May 2012. Mr. Powery, who decided last year to retire after four decades in service, has seen revenue collected by…
Stormy weather …keeps rainin’ all the time
“Since my man and I ain’t together”. We’ll leave the middle bit out of the well-known “Stormy Weather” song made famous by Billie Holiday. I was humming it to myself as I got almost drowned trying to unblock a drain…
Cayman Islands banker Jeffrey Webb set to be elected leader of CONCACAF confederation
(AP) — Tackling corruption in football will again top FIFA’s agenda when the 208 member nations meet this week for a Congress that will also see the first woman appointed to the governing body’s executive committee. Continuing FIFA’s efforts to…
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BE SURE NOT TO MISS ANY OF THE DAY’S NEWS Highlight a HEADING from the top menu of the home page and select a CATEGORY from the dropdown menu e.g. highlight NEWS and select “LOCAL NEWS”, “BUSINESS”, “WORLD…
Some tips on how Cayman should do business with the Chinese
With the China Harbour Engineering Company deal still on the table and awaiting the report from KPMG (one of the big four auditors) I thought I would share with you an article I read that contained comments from Janet Carmosky,…
First Quarter Crime Statistics and a warning
The good news: Robberies in Cayman have fallen by over 66% in the first quarter of this year compared to the beginning of 2011. There were eight robberies in the first three months of 2012 compared to 24 over the…
