The Editor Speaks: A love blog day
It is St Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. On this day we think strongly of our partner, wife, husband, lover, mother, father and even our pets. Love on this day is often an interpersonal attraction, desire, romance…
More details of CEC’s “super uni”
More details about Cayman Enterprise City’s “super university”, set to offer education and human resource development for as many as 500 students, including scholarship-funded Caymanians, have emerged. The school will be among the six “industries” in the Special Economic Zone…
UN consultant shot dead in Cairo
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian woman who worked for the United Nations as a freelance consultant was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood on Sunday, security officials said. It was not immediately clear whether…
Investigators seek answers to Houston’s death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston as the music industry’s biggest names gathered for a Grammy Awards show that felt as much like a memorial as a celebration. Coroner’s officials say they…
Elvis sets red dress gala aflame
It was the 1950’s and 1960’s all over again at the Cayman Heart Fund’s Red Dress Gala. With plenty of ladies looking gorgeous in their red dresses, the Marriott Ballroom looked like one big Valentine’s rose. Sue Rajah, the Heart…
Radio ‘godfather’
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Wilmot Perkins, a veteran Jamaican journalist considered the island’s “godfather of talk radio,” has died. He was 80. Perkins died Friday at his home after a brief illness, according to statements from his former employers. The…
George Town robbery
Four women and a young child watched in horror during an armed robbery in George Town. Two men armed with a handgun and flare gun threatened staff at Miss Alex Vatiety Store before escaping with a small amount of cash. …
Filipino Bishop warns of priest sex abuse cases in Asia
ROME (AP) — A culture of silence across Asia may be keeping many victims of clergy sex abuse there from coming forward, a top Asian church official told a Vatican-backed conference on Thursday. Monsignor Luis Antonio Tagle, the archbishop of…
Public health advisory on viral gastroenteritis
An unusually high number of gastroenteritis cases reported in the past two weeks has prompted the Public Health Department to issue a public health advisory regarding the situation. “Usually, we see between 15 and 25 cases of gastroenteritis per week…
