Tracey’s boxing clever
Rush-hour commuters will be in for a shock when they get to the Hurley’s roundabout on Friday afternoon. Local boxing favourite Tracey Seymour will be holding pad demonstrations to raise money for the sport from 4.30pm. She will be collecting…
Call for radical election shake-up
The electoral map of Grand Cayman will be entirely redrawn, with its six residential districts subdivided into 16 distinct voting areas, each sending its own representative to the Legislative Assembly. Under the “one man-one vote” regime advocated yesterday by North…
Whitney Houston fans to follow funeral on Internet
NEW YORK (AP) — They won’t be there in person, but singer Whitney Houston’s millions of fans worldwide will be able to share in her homecoming service Saturday as they watch her private funeral on the Internet. It will provide…
Up, up and away for 100 days of school!
Colourful balloons, costumes, happy children – all celebrating the number of days spent in school. Can that be right? Yes! If the number is 100 and the school is North Side Primary, where on last week the whole school participated…
Police Investigate Coral Gardens Death
A 56-year-old cruise ship passenger died in the area of Coral Gardens in the North Sound. Shortly before midday yesterday, Wednesday 15th February 2012, police received a report that a man was unconscious and unresponsive on the water near to…
Trial opens for top suspect in 2002 Bali bombings
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Muslim militant suspected of building the bombs used in the 2002 Bali attack went on trial Monday on terrorism charges, a year after he was captured in the same Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden…
Kids tidy up at Miss Lassie’s
Around 20 students, teachers and parents from George Town Primary School’s Year Two got together to help clean up Miss Lassie’s House at South Sound. The kids learned all about visionary painter the late Gladwyn Bush, better known as Miss…
Drug maker for ‘El Chapo’ seized in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials said Tuesday they have arrested a man who manufactured methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The arrest of suspect Jaime Herrera Herrera was the latest in a series…
