Cayman Islands on Pace for Second Strong Year of Arrivals
By Brian Major January 16, 2013 4:32 PM The Cayman Islands said that when the final tally is in it will have welcomed more than 300,000 overnight visitors in 2012, the first time in 10 years the Caribbean destination has…
Clients key to success for Caribbean’s “Silicon Valley”
Founders of Cayman Enterprise City (CEC), the Caribbean’s new hub for high-tech innovation are totally committed to the success of their Special Economic Zone and the companies establishing in it. As a business licensing vehicle CEC provides everything necessary for…
pwc Cayman Islands 2013 Open Tennis Tournament
Next week, The Cayman Islands Tennis Club is excited to host the 2013 pwc Cayman Islands Open Tennis Tournament and the 2013 pwc Men’s Invitational Championships. This year, there will essentially be two very exciting tournaments that will take place…
Match-fixing revenues comparable to global firms – Interpol
Match-fixing in football today generates “hundreds of billions of euros per year” around the world, the head of Interpol has warned. Secretary General Ronald Noble said revenues from illegal betting were “on the same scale as a Coca-Cola company”. He…
Pakistan deal reached to end cleric Qadri’s protest
The Pakistani government has reached a deal with cleric Tahirul Qadri to end his mass protest near parliament in Islamabad, the two sides say. Mr Qadri wanted the government to resign ahead of elections due in May. The government agreed…
Algeria says military operation to free hostages ‘over’
An Algerian military operation to free hostages being held by militants at a desert gas plant is now over, state news agency APS reports. Algerian state TV said four foreigners were killed in the operation. Others were freed, but there…
Bodyline: 80 years of cricket’s greatest controversy
By Greig Watson BBC News As Australian batsman Bert Oldfield collapsed, his skull fractured by a lightning-fast ball, the booing from the 50,000-strong Adelaide Oval crowd became a deafening howl. The England players, mouths dry with fear, looked for escape…
2 killed as helicopter crashes into crane in central London
By Laura Smith-Spark and Nick Thompson, CNN London (CNN) — A helicopter crashed into a construction crane atop a new luxury residential building in thick London fog Wednesday, killing the pilot and another person and sparking a line of flames…
Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ jets grounded in Japan after series of issues and by USA’s FAA
TOKYO – Japan’s two biggest airlines grounded all their Boeing 787 aircraft for safety checks Wednesday after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet. All Nippon Airways said a cockpit message…
Foreigners held hostage by Islamist militants in Algeria
Two foreigners, one of them British, have been killed and more taken hostage in an attack by Islamist militants on a gas facility in Algeria, reports say. At least 20 foreigners – including US, French, British, Norwegian and Japanese citizens…
