Mellisa Rankin crowned Miss Festival
Mellisa Rankin was crowned George Town Miss Festival Queen – at the George Town Miss Festival Queen pageant George Town Central Park, Scranton. Mellisa will represent the district of George Town in the Miss Festival Queen Competition finals, scheduled for…
Chilling similarities between Cayman and Liverpool crime gangs
iNews reporter Paul Kennedy spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for regional and national newspapers on Merseyside. Here he looks at what the people of Cayman can expect if officers from his home city come to help…
Bush: “a ‘dark hand’ undermining C.I.’s”
Concerned citizens at West Bay meeting. In a broad appeal to the West Bay community on Wednesday night, Premier McKeeva Bush called for cooperation with police to stem a wave of violence in the district, and detailed recent additions to…
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Lion Fish Culling Course The Department of Environment (DoE) is hosting a lion fish culling course on Cayman Brac next Tuesday, 28 September. Anyone interested in helping control this invasive fish species should attend this free course to earn their…
NFL memo warns teams on faking injuries
NEW YORK (AP) — To the fake handoff and fake field goals, add fake injuries. The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams warning of fines, suspensions and loss of draft picks if the league determines players faked injuries…
UK to pay victims over Bloody Sunday massacre
DUBLIN (AP) — Britain said Thursday it will offer compensation payments to the families of people killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday, a nearly 40-year-old massacre by British paratroopers in Northern Ireland that fueled Irish Catholic support for the IRA….
Sleep apnea/Obesity hypoventilation syndrome “Pickwickian syndrom” : Part 1
Pickwickian syndrome is named after Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers because the novel features a character who has all the classic symptoms of the condition. Joe is obese, constantly hungry, very red in the face and is always falling asleep in…
Miss Cayman’s beauty with a purpose
Miss Cayman contestants are ready for their close-up at this weekend’s final event. iNews spoke to the beautiful hopefuls to find out how they felt about the possibility of representing their country. Miss Cayman contestants are ready for their close-up…
Pope on visit to German homeland, expects protest
BERLIN (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI warned Germans of the danger of ignoring religion as he began the first state visit to his homeland Thursday, seeking to stem the tide of Catholics leaving the church while acknowledging the damage caused…