Addressing the marijuana issue with wisdom
By Herbert Volney From Caribbean News Now In Defence of Marijuana I am an advocate for the decriminalization of the cultivation, possession and use of marijuana. As a former long-standing High Court judge it was my experience that successive juries…
Royal Visit to the Cayman Islands 6 / 7 March 2016
Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex will visit the Cayman Islands from Sunday 6th March to Monday 7th March 2016. On Sunday the couple will attend a private event at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute on Little…
An active week for law enforcement in the Cayman Islands’ Eastern Districts
From RCIPS Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:52 AM Last week (through 28 February) RCIPS officers were stepping up enforcement on the road and elsewhere in the Eastern Districts. In the course of the week (through Sunday, 28 February) Eastern officers…
Peter Binose: Canouan – Raped Jewel of the Grenadines.
By Peter Binose The ULP Manifesto of 2010 on page 71 referred to the development of Canouan “[the ULP Government] purchased back the Canouan Beach Hotel and placed the property as government equity in a Development Company and the Canouan…
OAS Observer Mission lauds Jamaica electoral process
By Alecia Smith Edwards From Jamaica Information Service Jamaica has received high praise from the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the manner in which the country’s 17th General Election was conducted. Chief of…
Cayman Islands violent crimes over weekend
From RCIPS Stabbing on Seymour Drive Monday (29) morning, 29 February At around 1AM this morning, 29 February, Police and Emergency Services were called to a report of an injured man at the junction of Seymour Road with North Sound…
Otter drowns after zookeepers give him ‘unauthorized’ pants
By HEATHER DOCKRAY From Mashable It can be so tempting to give cute animals human clothes, but sometimes we take it too far. At the Calgary Zoo last month, two zoo employees thought it’d be fun to give one of their otters,…
Tourism Matters: Again the taxpayer is left in the dark
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean News Now The decision by the Sandals group to sell one of the hotels they either own or operate in Antigua to competitor Elite Island Resorts raises a number of questions. Like the announced Beaches…
Measuring the wrong thing
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio There’s nothing wrong with using measurements to prove something – as long as you’re measuring the right thing – which is where the subjectivists and the measurementists often get off on the wrong foot….
Cayman Islands General Elections progress update
From The Elections Office Cayman Islands George Town, Cayman Islands, 2016 – The Elections Office continues preparations for General Elections under the 19 single member electoral districts system in the areas of legislative amendment recommendations, voter registration, voter education, allocation…