Ezzard wants funding for London trip
North Side’s Ezzard Miller is calling for approximately CI$15,000 in donations to fund a late-February trip to London to question policymakers about the Cayman Islands. Accompanied by at least two others, Mr Miller hopes to gain sufficient funding to spend…
Red alert as big freeze grips Britain
HEALTH officials in the United Kingdom were on standby last night to take action as snow and a killer winter blast hits Britain The bitterly cold weather will see temperatures plunge to -12C (10F) today while tomorrow will bring up…
Farewell to Deputy Governor
The career of Mr. Donovan “Donnie” Ebanks, MBE – the consummate public servant, Cayman’s first Deputy Governor, and a respected arbiter across official and political lines of government – was lauded at his retirement reception at Government House. Senior officers,…
REWARD of up to $25,000
Date: 31-Jan-2012 Contact: Malcolm Ellis – [email protected] Cayman Crime Stoppers has launched an official appeal for anybody with information concerning the gunshots fired at the home of a serving RCIPS officer on Velma Banks Drive in West Bay…
The Editor Speaks: A home used to be a castle
The idiom “An Englishman’s home is his castle” was established in common law by English lawyer and politician Sir Edward Coke (pronounced Cook), in “The Institutes of the Laws of England”, in 1628: “For a man’s house is his castle,…
Philippines: Most-wanted terror leaders killed
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military said it killed Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a U.S.-backed airstrike marking one of the region’s biggest anti-terrorism successes in recent years. The dawn strike targeting a…
Hydroponics
In the 17th century biologists discovered plants can grow without soil. There have been numerous experimental hydroponics projects initiated since then in an effort to improve the method. The real progress appeared after 1970 when plastics began to be used…
Grand Cayman and its movie ‘theatres’
I have to confess most of the early information comes from our Publisher, Joan (Watler) Wilson, who was born and bred here on Grand Cayman. Any problems with the ‘facts’ please complain (at your peril) to her. Thomas Seymour was…
