Mobile voting for OMOV on Little Cayman and Cayman Brac
Mobile voting commenced on Little Cayman on Friday 6th July and continues this week on Cayman Brac, North Side, East End, Bodden Town, George Town and West Bay. A total of 344 applications have been received. All voters who have…
Egypt court challenges Mursi’s reopening of parliament
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi’s order to reconvene parliament has been rejected by the highest court, which says its ruling that led to the assembly’s dissolution is binding. The speaker of the dissolved house has already responded to Mr Mursi’s decree,…
Is Banning Foie Gras the Solution to the Problem?
By Eric Steinman Eric Steinman is a freelance writer based in Rhinebeck, NY. He regularly writes about food, music, art, architecture, and culture and is a regular contributor to Bon Appétit among other publications. Foie gras…. discuss! Considering the highly…
Youth Sailors to compete in the Premier’s Cup, Tortola BVI
Five youth sailors will be representing Cayman in the Premier’s Cup regatta in Tortola, BVI. The regatta runs from July 13th to the 15th 2012. The Premier’s Cup event was started in 1998 and was the first Youth Team Sailing…
“Play Me, I’m Yours” puts 41 pianos across city of Toronto
If you come across a piano in Toronto during the next few weeks where there wasn’t one before, you can play it. It’s yours. Pianos will be spread across the city as part of an art installation celebrating the start…
Tropical Atlantic Remains Quiet As Two Hurricanes Churn In The Eastern Pacific
Rob Lighbown of Crown Weather says: The tropical Atlantic has absolutely nothing to keep an eye on this morning. On the weather map this morning, a frontal boundary is expected to continue sinking southward across the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern United…
Anxiety and violence
Coping with anxiety is something that most people have probably dealt with at some point in their lives. Being nervous and twitchy about something is a natural reaction, particularly in a world of lawsuits, divorce papers, terrorist threats, and Orwellian…
Managing Director Leaves NRA
The National Roads Authority (NRA) Board of Directors have announced that Mr. Brian Tomlinson is no longer employed with the NRA effective 29 June 2012. Mr. Tomlinson served the NRA in his capacity as the Managing Director for almost five…
Butterfield Trust Makes Senior Appointments To Cayman Office
Butterfield Trust in the Cayman Islands is pleased to announce that it has appointed Brian Balleine to the position of Senior Vice President and Head of Trust and Gina Nelson to the position of Head of Business Development in the…
Hedge Funds Are Not Like Banks (and That’s Okay!)
By Kevin Roose writing in The New York I can’t decide what the funniest thing is about Azam Ahmed’s Times story* (which expands on a FT story last year) on the ludicrous world of Cayman Islands–domiciled hedge funds and their…
