Luka Modric: Real Madrid sign midfielder from Tottenham
Luka Modric has completed his move from Tottenham to Real Madrid for a fee in the region of £30m. The Croatia midfielder, 26, passed a medical on Monday before signing a five-year contract with the Spanish giants. “I’m very happy,…
Afghan security forces kill 2 U.S. troops, 10 Afghan soldiers in 2 attacks
An Afghan soldier killed two American troops Monday in the latest attack by Afghan security forces on coalition soldiers, authorities said. The killings occurred the same day 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when members of their own unit opened fire…
Syria: Helicopter crashes in Damascus
Armed rebels in Syria say they have shot down a military helicopter over the capital, Damascus. The Free Syrian Army said the aircraft had been firing at people in the north-eastern district of Jobar, and that it had crashed in…
Cayman Islands SFA donate laparoscopic tower to HSA
On Wednesday 22nd Aug Cayman Islands Hospital in George Town received a hundred thousand dollar laparoscopic tower that will enable patients there to undergo minimally invasive surgery. John Douglas, President of the Cayman Islands Seafarers Association (SFA) who presented the…
Three West Bay men still missing at sea
A canoe with three West bay men on board that is believed left the Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands on Sunday 19 August, heading for Jamaica, is still missing. On Thursday 23 August, when the men had not returned to Grand…
HMP Northward prison riot, October 1999. Colin Wilson remembers….
On September 10th, 1992, Cayman International Television Network (Caribbean) Ltd (CITN – Cayman 27) first put out a video signal over the air. To the majority of people living on Grand Cayman it was not very memorable as the video…
‘French Elvis’ rushed to Caribbean clinic for urgent care
French rocker Johnny Hallyday, a legend in his homeland, was being treated Monday in a Caribbean hospital after being rushed there by helicopter, his producer and reports said. He was treated for a case of “persistent bronchitis” and will leave…
Isaac hardly caused a stir in the Keys
Tropical Storm Isaac barely stirred Florida Keys residents from their fabled nonchalance Sunday, while the Gulf Coast braced for the possibility that the sprawling storm will strengthen into a dangerous hurricane by the time it makes landfall there. At 2…
Arctic sea ice reaches smallest size ever NASA says
The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the…
Chamber Pension Plan elect new Board Chair
The Chamber Pension Plan Board of Trustees recently welcomed Lynn Roffey as their newly elected Chair, an accounting and finance professional who has 19 years of experience in her field of expertise. As the Financial Controller for Androgroup Ltd and…
