Weather latest
National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida is issuing advisories on near category 3 Hurricane Rina. At 10:00 p.m. local time the center of Hurricane Rina was located near latitude 17.5 north…longitude 84.8 west, or about 256 miles west southwest…
Hurricane Rina and Invest 97L
Hurricane Rina this morning is at Cat. 2 strength and struggling a little bit. It’s path is uncertain. Both Crown Weather and Weather Underground mention various scenarios and few of the models agree. There are so many ‘ifs’ the National…
Bodden Town school disturbance
Police were at the scene of a disturbance in Bodden Town. A man had climbed on the roof of the primary school and refused to come down. Officers from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service were at the scene and…
The earth moved on Sunday
The Cayman Islands region experienced an earthquake in the early hours of Sunday morning. The quake struck at 03:23am and was measured at a magnitude of 4.1 mb. It was located 475 km W Spanish town and 146 km S…
Letters to the Editor: Further to 22-24 Oct Letter to Editor
We have an update to the anonymous letter we received entitled “Bully Guards at Fairbanks”. The letter brought our attention to the strip search carried out at the Fairbanks women’s prison on 4th Dec. last year. Two officers were disciplined…
UK lawmakers say they’ll defy gov’t over Europe
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron pleaded with Conservative Party lawmakers on Monday to drop their support for a national referendum on Britain leaving the European Union, comparing the bloc and its economic crisis to a house on fire…
Cats the way to do it
While dogs at the Humane Society have been having their day, in the form of regular dog adoption roadshows and fashion soirees, cat roadshows are a relatively new idea. It was thought that cats didn’t like to be moved around…
The Editor Speaks: New Government talk show to air on Government radio station
Officially iNews knows absolutely nothing about the new talk show to be aired on Radio Cayman by the Department of Commerce and Investment (DCI) as we weren’t sent the release. This may be because we aren’t on their radar or…
U2 honoured as ‘Greatest Act’ in last 25 years
LONDON (AP) — Rock icons U2 have something new to brag about — winning Q Magazine’s Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years award. The annual music awards by Britain’s best-selling music monthly took place Monday in London and the…
I’M NO COWBOY: Premier “is out of line” claims former auditor
Former Auditor General Dan Duguay yesterday angrily rejected accusations by Premier McKeeva Bush that the ex-official was ”a cowboy”, saying the remarks were “inappropriate and uncalled for”, and threatened to compromise the office. Current Auditor General Alastair Swarbrick, while declining…
