Even more confusion re Community Enhancement Fee being withdrawn.
EVEN MORE CONFUSION: Press statement from group of Business People following Premier’s release at 7:04pm Sat (4) Following the release to the media Saturday morning of a statement authored by several prominent Caymanian business leaders declaring that the “Community Enhancement…
Government Prepares for Ernesto
In response to the possible threat of Tropical Storm Ernesto, government’s National Hazard Management Council (NHMC) today (Friday, 3 August) convened its first meeting of this year’s hurricane season – and the first such meeting to be chaired by Deputy…
Frasers stepped up and promise more
By Ronald Shillingford DOUBLE CLICK ON EACH PHOTO TO ENLARGE Shaune and Brett Fraser deserve heroes welcomes when they return to the Cayman Islands in a couple of weeks after superb swims at the London Olympics which confirmed them as…
Sook expects Frasers to improve
by Ronald Shillingford Doctor Sook Yin-Eccles is the swimming manager for the Fraser brothers, Shaune and Brett at the London Olympics and she believes that they can only improve in the world rankings. Brett is now 12th fastest 200 metres…
Press Release from CIREBA Board of Directors: “Fiscal Suicide”
August 1, 2012 There are so many bad things about this proposed tax that it is hard to know where to start! The foundation of the lunacy surrounding this approach lies in the fact that this attempt to tax and…
Major Networks Shut Out of Best Drama Category in Emmy Nominations
From Brian Stelter and Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times The winner of the Emmy Award for outstanding drama won’t be announced until September. But the category’s losers were all identified on Thursday: the big broadcast networks that televise the…
TD 5 is now Tropical Storm Ernesto and forecast to visit us as a hurricane
Hazard Management says “be prepared” Hazard Management Cayman Islands and the National Weather Service are currently monitoring Tropical Depression number 5 (now TS Ernesto) which is located east of the Windward Islands. TS Ernesto 5 does not pose an immediate…
Five elite athletes honoured on 2012 Olympic stamps
There is no doubt that Olympic fever is in the air and to celebrate the participating Cayman Islands athletes, the Cayman Islands Postal Service will be releasing five stamps depicting the islands’ elite athletes: Cydonie Mothersill, Ronald Forbes, Kemar Hyman,…
Press Release from the Cayman Islands Real Estate Brokers Association
Dangerous Tax Virus Poised to hit Cayman August 1, 2012 There is a deadly virus coming which has infected most of the other countries in the world. It has actually come to Cayman rather late. The earliest version infected totalitarian…
Letter to CNS republished here: Open letter to premier
This letter appeared on the CNS website. I make no apologies for posting it here. I congratulate M/s Casey Goff and I sincerely hope the premier reads it but I fear even if he does, it will not mean anything…
