Hew finishes 2012-13 swim season in style at Canadian Age Group Championships
Camana Bay Aquatic Club (CBAC) swimmer Lauren Hew, 13, returned to Cayman a champion after winning a bronze medal in the 2013 Canadian Age Group Long Course Championships, which took place in Montreal from 24-28 July 2013. Hosted by Swimming…
Schofield joins HSM
In a surprise announcement, Huw Moses, founding partner of local law firm HSM has announced former Acting Solicitor General Douglas Schofield has joined the practice. Mr. Schofield has previous high profile appointments including the crown counsel’s office in British Columbia…
Escape artist drops out of a plane at 14,000 feet locked inside a coffin, and survives
By Andrea Thomas, Associated Press From Business Insider SERENA, Ill. (AP) — A Wisconsin daredevil freed himself from shackles and a locked casket while plummeting to the earth at 130 miles per hour on Tuesday, eventually parachuting gently into a…
Fresh Air Fund sends Big Apple kids to Cayman
Cayman Airways and the Department of Tourism have sponsored a programme initiated by The Fresh Air Fund to give a holiday of a lifetime to ten children from New York City. The youngsters arrived on Thursday (8) and come from…
BlackBerry awarded “authority to operate” on U.S. Department of Defense Networks
DISA deploying BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 to support BlackBerry 10 smartphones on DoD networks Waterloo, ON – BlackBerry® (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) today (8) announced the U.S. Defense Information System Agency (DISA) has given BlackBerry® Z10 and BlackBerry® Q10 smartphones…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Loeb’s Reinsurer with no U.S. staff gains from Jobs Act
By Lee Spears and Noah Buhayar Bloomberg Businessweek Billionaire hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb’s Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., which has no staff in the U.S., said it can limit financial disclosure after a public offering because of rules promoting domestic job…
Taylors say farewell
At a reception on the lawns of Government House on Friday evening (2 August 2013), His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Duncan Taylor, CBE, and Mrs. Beatrice expressed fond memories about the Cayman Islands and its people, and their sadness to…
Ambassador Doyle says SKN is leading the way at UNESCO
From ZIZonline (EMU) – St. Kitts, August 5th, 2013: Newly appointed St Kitts and Nevis Ambassador to UNESCO Dr. David Doyle has revealed that the Federation has distinguished itself as a nation which utilizes the resources of the United Nations…
CUC wins regional awards
Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd. (CUC) has won two of the top awards at the Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) 2012 Benchmarking Awards. The award for Best Performance in Transmission and Distribution Services won by CUC was given based on…
