Mikaela skips her way in from the cold
HOW many teenagers can say they have captained their country in a sport? Collaroy Plateau’s Mikaela Turik has that honour on her blossoming CV, after recently leading the senior Canada XI to victory at the ICC Americas T20 championship in…
Letter to Editor
Anonymous The independent member for Northside must apologise to Lord Blencathra and all handicapped people of Cayman. Mr. Ezzard Miller has come under fire for his rantings of unwanted descriptions or categorization including terms related to deviance disability or diagnosis…
Norway gunman asks to confront massacre survivors
(AP) — Survivors of a youth camp shooting massacre that left 69 people dead in Norway testified Wednesday about their panicked attempts to hide during the rampage, as the court turned down confessed gunman Anders Behring Breivik’s request to question…
Paralysed woman completes London Marathon in robot suit
Claire Lomas suffered a T4 spinal injury in a 2007 horse riding accident that left her paralysed from the chest down. In 2012, she completed the London Marathon. What happened in between was the development of a robotic suit that…
Liberator of ladies’ hair Vidal Sassoon dies at 84
(AP) — Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care. When he came on the scene in the 1950s, hair…
Saudis emerge as key US ally against terrorists
(AP) — A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the U.S. against al-Qaida’s spinoff group in Yemen and at least twice have disrupted…
Dishin’ with Dody: Mother’s Day
This Sunday, May 13th, is officially Mother’s Day, but my official Mother’s Day began many years ago on the first of May. This is the day my first son was born. Jeffery was a child that was longed for and…
Freeport Rugby Club hosts Cayman and Bermuda for Junior Rugby Tournament
This coming weekend the Freeport Rugby Club will once again be hosting a junior boys rugby team from the Cayman Islands. Last years competition was a tremendous success with over 50 boys aged from 8yrs to 12 years old, coming…
Obama voices his support for gay marriage
(AP) On the fence no longer, President Barack Obama declared his unequivocal support for gay marriage on Wednesday, a historic announcement that gave the polarizing social issue a more prominent role in the 2012 race for the White House. The…
Cayman Islands compete in Lego Competition
The “Brainy Bunch,” a First Lego League (FLL) team of six Kilmer Middle School students, won second place overall in the research category last weekend at the FLL World Invitational Open hosted by the University of South Florida and Legoland….

















