Helen Harquail is 100
Helen Harquail celebrated her 100th birthday at a private party in her honour at the Cayman Islands National Gallery on Saturday Dec. 1st. Although she is a founding member of the National Trust and a National Gallery board member, it is…
OCG Congratulates Public Bodies and OCG staff say “thank you”
OCG Congratulates Public Bodies for Registering a 100% QCA Report Submission Compliance Rate for Newly Introduced QCA Web Portal Kingston, Jamaica; December 4, 2012 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) congratulates all 197 Procuring Public Bodies and their…
Drugs can’t stop this deadly bacteria stalking 42 states
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The doctors tried one antibiotic after another, racing to stop the infection as it tore through the man’s body, but nothing worked. In a matter of days after the middle-aged patient arrived at University of Virginia Medical…
Cayman GDP worth US 3.08 billion in 2009
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Cayman Islands was worth 3.08 billion US dollars in 2009, according to a report published by the World Bank. The GDP value of Cayman Islands is roughly equivalent to 0 percent of the world…
Eric Ripert Explains Leaving DC and Philly, Teases a New NYC Project
by Amy McKeever Don’t panic, Eric Ripert‘s Grand Cayman restaurant Blue is safe from the carnage of last week in which the chef made back-to-back announcements that he was cutting ties with both his Washington, DC, and Philadelphia-based Ritz-Carlton restaurants….
Cayman stock exchange to make listed catastrophe bonds & ILS tradable
From Artemis Here’s a fascinating development which could have significant ramifications for the market in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, particularly in the secondary market trade in Rule 144A securitized notes. The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) has told us…
Chinese are attracted to branded British universities
By Elizabeth Gasson ( China Daily) Bentley, Burberry and Cambridge University. What we perceive to be the best of British products for cars and clothes are the shiny labels – those that scream: “I am the best”. Yet, carrying…
St. Luke’s cardiologists care for Cayman Islanders
Health officials from the Cayman Islands will visit St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute on Friday (7) to renew the Kansas City hospital’s contract as the island’s preferred provider for cardiac care. Since 2011, St. Luke’s has cared for 49…
Immigration Holiday Hours and Reminders
The Department of Immigration wishes to advise clients of holiday hours for its public counters, as well as the dates for this year’s final board meetings. The public counters close at 11a.m. on Christmas Eve (Monday, December 24), and resume…
Grand Cayman is tops with the Monroe’s
“Grand Cayman beats everything. You have shipwrecks, the Cayman Trench” By Cherlene Willis, Gulfport Patch From Key Largo to the Cayman Islands, the Monroe’s have explored the ocean’s depths for the past four years as scuba divers. Just this year…
