Is Bush correct in his opinion regarding the UK and its relationship with its Overseas Territories?
The Cayman Islands premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, has blasted out at nearly every public opportunity to show his discontent and anger in his dealings with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Faceless bureaucrats is one of his expressions describing…
Fighting obesity
Recent studies came up with a statistical figure that approximately fifty-eight million men and women are overweight; roughly forty million are obese; and around three million are morbidly obese. Another study said that eight out of ten adults over twenty-five…
Clothing Drive for Young Families
If babies are no longer in your future and you are looking to clear some space, Department of Counselling Services’ Family Resource Centre (FRC) is organizing a Young Parent Drive where baby items, maternity and professional clothes will be put…
Even Grand Cayman is wheelchair accessible on a Caribbean Cruise
By Bari Schlesinger, the Assistive Technology Services Coordinator for the California Department of Rehabilitation and a motorized wheelchair user. I hear it all the time. “I can’t travel because I am in wheelchair.” “I can’t go on a cruise.” But…
Encouraging Healthy Relationships with Dads
Knowing the impact of a healthy relationship with your dad, Family Resource Centre (FRC), with generous support from Hedge Fund Cares, presents Fathers First. Held at FRC’s office, six sessions will focus on areas such as responsible fatherhood, dealing with…
Highwater expands to New York
George Town, Grand Cayman, 14 August, 2012: HighWater Limited (“HighWater”), a boutique corporate governance services firm based in the Cayman Islands, has expanded with a New York-based Principal. Matt Auriemma, who will be based in New York, joins as a…
Butterflies and balloons at Fukushima
Nuclear meltdowns make everything depressing, and this week, even butterflies and balloons have seen their normally cheery image marred by radioactivity. First butterflies. A paper in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, shows mutations in butterfly populations around the Fukushima plant,…
Want to Create Jobs? Spend Money. Don’t sock it away in the Cayman Islands
From the No More Mister Nice Blog Rich people don’t create jobs; they take their tax cuts and sock it away in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Corporations don’t create jobs; they take their subsidies and profits and hand it…
Cayman Swimmers take part in 1st FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships
Three representatives of Cayman’s Swimming Family will represent the Cayman Islands in the 1st FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships being held in Niagara, Canada, August 16-19th 2012. The three swimmers – brothers Alex and Iain McCallum (Stingray Swim…
The highs and lows of Jamaica’s London Olympics
BY KARYL WALKER online news editor for Jamaica Observer. Without a doubt the historic ‘double triple’ by the legendary Usain St Leo Bolt must be considered the zenith of Jamaica’s performance at the 30th Olympiad in London, England. The inimitable…
