Cricket; Hope, Headingley: a miracle
By Mark Nicholas From espn cricket info Impossible, simply impossible. In all of West Indies cricket history nothing can have been quite so gloriously scatty, unlikely, improbable and, yes, let’s go there, as impossible as the victory achieved by Jason…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Boycotted for a knighthood
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now Geoffrey Boycott is a BBC cricket commentator. He was an England cricketer for 24 years. Over that period, he scored 8,114 runs in 108 Test matches for England and was the first…
[Cayman Islands’ Frank McField poses] A playground of lessons
By DONNA SEALY From Nation News Tradition versus progress through education, the rites of passage from a boy to a man, nature verses nurture, family conflict and the roles of each member are some of the themes explored in the…
Red ball or pink, West Indies plumb to new depths
By Tushar Bhaduri From The Indian Express West Indies have been lurching from one disaster to the next for a long time. They drew with England in their last series, in the Caribbean in April-May 2015, but it has been…
The Editor Speaks: Where were you when?
Where were you when….. ….John F. Kennedy died? ….Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston? ….9/11? ….Princess Diana died? ….Elvis Presley died? I was at home in England watching television when there was an in interruption to the BBC programme and a…
Elvis vigil 40 years
Tens of thousands of Elvis fans join ex-wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie for moving candlelit vigil at Graceland on the 40-year anniversary of The King’s death By James Wilkinson For Dailymail.com Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977; on…
BT to remove half of the UK’s remaining telephone boxes
By Matt Brian From engadget The company spends £6 million a year on phone box upkeep, which includes removing human waste. With the majority of Britons now carrying a smartphone in their pocket, demand for static, boring telephone boxes has…
UK: Thames Water turns its back on Cayman Islands after paying no corporation tax for a decade
By Rachel Millard For The Daily Mail From This Is Money UK Controversial Thames Water could soon sever its links with the Cayman Islands as it seeks to repair its reputation. Bosses think the firm, which has paid no corporation…
Jamaica Emancipation Day Tue Aug 1 2017
Emancipation When full Emancipation came in 1838 a system that had been tried and tested in the Caribbean since the sixteenth century came to an end. Slavery had within itself the seeds of its own destruction, whether because slaves resisted…
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Cayman Islands Chief Justice releases statement upon death of Richard De Lacy QC
“On behalf of the Cayman Islands Judiciary, I extend deepest condolences to the family and friends of our brother Richard De Lacy QC, on his sudden passing,” he said. “Ever since his first appearances before our Courts, it was immediately…
