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Beggar’s mentality driving our need to be seen as poor
By Michael A. Dingwall Jamaica’s finance minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, is off to the Third International Conference for Financing and Development in Ethiopia. I understand that one of the issues that he will be looking at is the middle-income status…
Olwomen story of week
15 best and beneficial home remedies for prickly heat By Cindy Smith From Olwomen As the summer season knocks at our doors, with hot temperatures, dehydration, scorching sunrays and tanned skins, we are forced to welcome prickly heat symptoms on…
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…
Firefox now blocks all versions of Flash Player by default
By Liam Tung From ZD NET In the wake of two new zero-day flaws in Flash Player, Mozilla has disabled the plugin for all versions of its Firefox browser. Mozilla’s support team has made the dramatic but justified decision to…
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…
Cayman Islands Diamond Exchange idea mooted
(IDEX Online News) – It’s already a major offshore financial centre, but the Cayman Islands could also become home to an important diamond exchange, according to World Federation of Diamond Bourses president Ernie Blom. According to The Cayman Islands Journal…
The Editor Speaks: Should persons serving on Government committees, boards, etc receive monetary benefits?
I have served in my time (and still do) on a number of boards and committees. All have been in the private sector and nearly all involve the community. Never have I been offered nor would I have accepted payment…
Cayman Islands new fuel-management system in place
The Department of Vehicle and Equipment Services (DVES) recently installed a new fuel management system (Gas Boy Islander Plus). This is a web-based enterprise fleet management software to help keep track of the Government fuel usage and help DVES to…
