‘Wizard of Oz’ super-fan offers $1 million for Dorothy’s stolen ruby slippers
By Kimberly Truong From Mashable IMAGE: Rubyslippers In this April 10, 1996 file photo, the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” are shown on display during a media tour of the “America’s…
Developer of Bahamas resort accuses Chinese of sabotage, fraud
By Tim McLaughlin From Reuters (Reuters) – The developer of the unfinished $3.5 billion Baha Mar mega resort in the Bahamas has accused China Construction America of cutting power to the work site, inflating expenses and trying to steal documents…
Significant contraband found at Cayman Islands prison/Charges in Jason Powery murder case
From RCIPS Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:01 PM Northward Prison officials discovered a significant quantity of drugs, alcohol and mobile phones, that had apparently been thrown over the fence, on Monday, 13 July 2015. Among the twelve parcels of…
Cayman Islands: Vehicle accident involving stolen motorcycle in BT
From RCIPS Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:27 PM At 9:45 this morning near Beach Bay Road a motorcycle traveling east at a fast speed collided with the vehicle in front of it, and then crashed into another vehicle traveling the…
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Community Events Meeting Requests with Family Support Unit at RCIPS The Family Support Unit (FSU) at the RCIPS has temporarily relocated to Elizabethan Square due to damage to the Smith Road office where it was situated. The FSU would like…
Rapper 50 Cent says he’s broke after losing lawsuit
AFP From Business Insider New York (AFP) – He calls himself 50 Cent, but the hip-hop mogul says he may not be worth even that. The rapper known for the album and movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” filed for…
Dewey case comes into focus
By Julie Triedman, From The National Law Journal Yet to be heard is finance director Frank Canellas (UPDATE: See below). With testimony from roughly a third of the expected 79 prosecution witnesses in the criminal trial of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s…
Boston police captain’s son arrested in alleged ISIS plot
By Marcus Gilmer From Mashable The son of a Boston police captain who was a first responder at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing has been arrested in connection with an alleged ISIS plot that was similar to the marathon bombing….
Oscar-Winning Director of Snowden documentary trying to find out why she’s been detained at airports so much
By Chris Morran From Consumerist Laura Poitras recently won the Academy Award for CITIZENFOUR, her documentary on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but the director claims that she’s long been hassled by U.S. federal authorities for years, resulting in multiple unmerited…
Senior Tibetan monk dies in Chinese prison
By Sui-Lee Wee Reuters From Huffington Post BEIJING, July 13 (Reuters) – A Tibetan monk who was one of China’s most prominent political prisoners has died in jail, a relative said on Monday, and a rights group said security forces…