Sacking plan to speed up Public Servants in UK
A plan to sack one in four Public Servants in the United Kingdom Department of Education has been proposed as a way of making its processes work faster. The suggestion came in an internal review by the Department which criticised…
Sao Paulo ex-mayor guilty of stealing public funds
The former mayor of Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, has been found guilty of stealing millions of dollars from public funds and diverting them to his offshore accounts in Jersey. A court in Jersey ordered Paulo Maluf, 81, to pay…
Police officer on bribery charge
Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) officer appeared in court on Monday (19) charged with bribery offences under Cayman Islands’ anti-corruption legislation – 2 counts of corruptly obtaining cash, contrary to section 10 of the Anti-Corruption Law 2008 and 2…
No supermarket venues for election vote registrations after Dec 1
The Elections Office wishes to advise all prospective electors that whilst applications for registration will continue to be accepted in the 6 electoral districts and at the Elections Office on Smith Road until January 2nd, 2013 all supermarket venues will…
US Gulf Coast dolphin mutilations investigated
US wildlife officials are investigating a spate of killings and mutilations of dolphins along the Gulf Coast over the past year. A number of the mammals have washed ashore with bullet wounds, hacked-off fins and in one case a missing…
UPDATE: Loaded gun recovered – man now charged
UPDATE Friday 23 Nov 2012: Loaded gun recovered – Man due in court The 41-year-old man who was arrested on Monday in relation to the recovery of a loaded revolver in the Breakers area has now been charged. He has…
Scotland promotes BT dump deal to fury of BT Coalition
Bodden Town MLA, Mark Scotland who is Cayman Islands Government Minister of the Environment released a statement to the media on November 15th reiterating Government’s intention of forging ahead with the deal. His statement has made the Coalition to Keep…
Nudity ban eyed in San Francisco
San Francisco lawmakers are set to vote on whether to ban nudity in public places, in an escalating fight against a group of nudists. The proposal would make it illegal for anyone over five to “expose his or her genitals,…
Girl Guides – Feminists and Quite Cool
By Jan Shure We were a fairly high-powered group of five media women (and one man, father-in-law to Conde Nast MD Nicholas Coleridge, as it happens) sipping strawberry daiquiris at a beach bar on Grand Cayman in 1992 when, in…
