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Month: March 2012

US pastor runs anti-gay effort in Uganda 


BOSTON (AP) — An East African gay advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a Massachusetts evangelist, alleging he has waged a decade-long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. The suit was filed in federal court in Springfield against…

German court mulls restitution of Nazi-seized art 


BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top federal appeals court is set to rule Friday on whether a Berlin museum must return to a Jewish man from Florida thousands of rare posters that were seized from his father by the Nazis. Lower…

Ready for Race Cayman

Four young sailors from the Cayman Sailing Programme are ready to set sail and make waves in this year’s Race Cayman 2012, proving the success of the Ministry of Sports and the Cayman Islands Sailing Centre’s joint sailing development programme….

Letter to the Editor: George Town’s Future

It was very interesting and pleasing to read of the planned boardwalk idea for the waterfront which is being proposed by a group of some 16 interested individuals or business people in the area.  I fully support the idea and…

Ernst & Young Provides Financial Boost to Feed Our Future

Feed Our Future, a not for profit association with a simple mission to provide needy children with school meals, recently received a healthy boost to their fund-raising efforts for the current school year through a generous donation from local professional…

iFaith

iThought for March 16, 2012

You should not glory in clothing at any time, and you should not let yourself be extolled in the day of your honor. For the works of the Most High alone are wondrous; and glorious and hidden and unseen are…

Beach replenishment a tough issue in Florida 


PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (AP) — The St. Joseph Peninsula is picture-perfect Florida: 17 miles of sugar sand beach interrupted by a few clusters of homes, each with a million-dollar view of the Gulf of Mexico. But according to state…

Rotary reading fun at GTPS

Volunteers from the Rotary Sunrise Club have been reading with the children at George Town Primary School regularly once a week for a while now, but this week was Rotary’s designated reading week so the lucky kids got six volunteers…

Egypt charges 75 people in deadly soccer riot

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top prosecutor on Thursday charged 75 people in connection with a deadly soccer riot last month in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which authorities said fans were thrown to their death off the stadium…

Rotary Club Blood Tests

Rotary Central hosted a free island-wide diabetes screening day at eight different locations throughout Grand Cayman including Fosters Republix, store Cost U Less, A. L. Thompson’s ( New Location added this year), Foster’s Strand, Kirk Supermarket, Hurley’s, Foster’s Airport &…