New head of Family Resource Centre
The Ministry of Community Affairs, Gender and Housing appointed Miriam Foster as the Family Resource Centre’s (FRC) Programme Coordinator earlier this month (1 February). Six years ago, Ms Foster joined the then Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) as an Administration Intake…
Call for radical election shake-up
The electoral map of Grand Cayman will be entirely redrawn, with its six residential districts subdivided into 16 distinct voting areas, each sending its own representative to the Legislative Assembly. Under the “one man-one vote” regime advocated yesterday by North…
Up, up and away for 100 days of school!
Colourful balloons, costumes, happy children – all celebrating the number of days spent in school. Can that be right? Yes! If the number is 100 and the school is North Side Primary, where on last week the whole school participated…
Kids tidy up at Miss Lassie’s
Around 20 students, teachers and parents from George Town Primary School’s Year Two got together to help clean up Miss Lassie’s House at South Sound. The kids learned all about visionary painter the late Gladwyn Bush, better known as Miss…
Visitors held to score draw
Swindon Town were held to a 1-1 draw when they faced a West Bay select team as part of their tour of Cayman. Local favourite Sebastian Martinez (in red left) – who has signed an 18-month contract with the English…
Cheerleaders kick off sports day
A competition between four different teams of cheerleaders was a very colourful way to start the John Gray High School’s Inter-Academy Sports Day, at George Town’s Truman Bodden Stadium. Four houses, known as “academies” – Wahoo (in red) Tarpon (dark…
SHETTY’S SENIOR SHELTER
Doctor to include retirement home in hospital scheme Dr Devi Shetty, developer of a $2 billion hospital on 200 acres in High Rock, has agreed to build a 20-bed retirement home in East End as part of the deal. While…
New youth “jail” to open in a year
Ground will be broken on 15 March for Cayman’s new Youth Centre Facility in Fairbanks Road, with foundation work scheduled to finish in mid-June, anticipating a full opening in one year. Responses are due at the Central Tenders Committee by…
Expect a robust show when the rodeo comes to town
Preparations are on track for the 45th Annual Agriculture Show, which will be held on Ash Wednesday, 22 February and from the sounds of it, the president of the Cayman Islands Agriculture Society is expecting a robust show. The Agriculture…
DOMINOS GUN RAID
Shot fired as gang strikes during game No one wants to talk and the neighbours were all “in bed at the time”, but are acutely aware of the out of control gun crime that is leaving people frightened in their…
