Cayman Airways gives Pirates Week a lift
This week’s launch of the Cayman Islands’ national festival, Pirates Week, comes with the annual support from the country’s national airline, Cayman Airways Limited (CAL). As the “Official Airline” of Pirates Week, Cayman Airways has been a major sponsor of…
The Editor Speaks: Why we should remember/Letter to the Editor
Editorial Why we should remember This weekend it is Remembrance Day. Many of us will be at Elmslie Memorial Church to watch the moving ceremony there as we remember. The majority of those there will not have anything to remember….
iNews Briefs
Remembrance Day this weekend in Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands Protocol Office has announced that Remembrance Day annual service takes place on Sunday, 9 November 2014, at 10:45 am, on Harbour Drive in front of Elmslie Memorial Church. The general…
Health City Cayman Islands surgeons save young Haitian heart patients
Health City, Digicel, Have a Heart and Haiti Cardiac Alliance partner to offer free heart surgeries GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands (November 6, 2014) – Four young Haitians returned to their home country last week having recently undergone life-saving heart surgery…
List of countries where sanctions have been imposed by Cayman Islands
From Cayman Islands Monetary Authority SANCTIONS Financial sanctions are imposed to combat terrorist financing, money laundering and development of weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations (“UN”) and European Union (“EU”) are key international bodies that adopt international sanctions measures…
New addition for Maples and Calder’s Cayman corporate team
Maples and Calder articled clerk, Kimberly Robinson was admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands by the Hon. Justice Panton on 16 September 2014 before an audience of family, friends and colleagues. Ms Robinson joined Maples and Calder in…
The Story Behind the Remembrance Poppy
From The Great War Field poppies growing near Connaught British Military cemetery on the old Western Front battlefields. Poppies growing near Connaught British Military cemetery on the old Somme battlefield. This is the story of how the red field poppy…
Catalonia: The Next State of Europe?
By Filipe dos Santos Henriques From thenewfederalist I’m from Portugal, a country whose king-to-be had to win against his mother, a countess, in the São Mamede battle in order to become independent. This was in 1128. Now, in 2014, how…
Remarks – Veterans Day 2014 — I still remember
From The Villager Newspaper We veterans from World War II are getting up in years, but we can still remember the Great Depression of the ‘30s and where we were on that fateful Dec. 7, 1941 — a day that…
Scotiabank’s Caribbean setback signals growing sore spot for Canada’s big banks
By David Pett From Financial Post Trouble in the Caribbean is becoming a popular refrain on Bay Street these days: The Bank of Nova Scotia is the latest to suffer, announcing it will write down more than $100-million in loans…