WestStar TV gets hit by lightning
Lightning from an electrical storm during the early hours of Friday (21) morning hit the WestStar TV tower and has knocked out many of their cable channels. The lightning also hit Master Control causing the local television feed over the…
Mother (known as Mama)
Mother (better known as Mama) ‘Mama’ as we called her was so quiet and sweet To hug and kiss her was really a treat. She was fat like mothers of her day you see Having nine healthy children…
The Editor Speaks: Brac paving disgrace
There has been much in Cayman’s media since a public interest report by the Auditor General on the expenditure of almost $3.5 million on paving in Cayman Brac, including more than $500,000 on private parking lots. What at first looked…
Hurricane Isaac Is a Wake-Up Call for Coastal Restoration
By Cindy Brown / The Nature Conservancy Cindy Brown is the Gulf Coast Program Director for The Nature Conservancy and a New Orleans native. Our conversation began with the simple message in her subject line: Y’all ok? Amy, officemate but…
CISA goes nuts about coconuts
The Cayman Islands Agricultural Society will be hosting Coconut Festival on Saturday, 29 September in conjunction with Market at the Grounds. Labeled a traditional Caymanian Day, the event will focus on all things coconut. There will be sampling of traditional…
Tax code lets firms shift profits [to the Cayman Islands]
By Andrew Conte and Lou Kilzer, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review McClatchy-Tribune Information Services Headquartered amid farm fields 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, II-VI makes optical lenses for lasers and has a corporate reach that extends to Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland and…
A poem of “Life” and a “Prayer for ourselves”
Life By: Brenda Quin Do not walk away or laugh when I talk of the olden times, tell you the old stories, for they are a part of you, as they are of me. It is only by knowing…
Young South Africans no longer believe in Nelson Mandela
By Mohamed Zayed, iNews Cayman special correspondent Nelson Mandela is known to the world as one of the strongest advocates for democracy and equality in the developed and developing worlds. If someone mentions the black continent, Nelson Mandela would come…
New BlackBerry 7.1 OS now available for free upgrade
Latest BlackBerry software includes new features and enhanced performance A wide range of software improvements await BlackBerry® 7 smartphone customers in the Caribbean with the introduction of the BlackBerry® 7.1 OS. The new OS upgrade makes seizing and sharing the…
Whittaker upset with paltry purse for Rosado bout
by Corey Erdman In an industry as unforgiving as boxing, one can still find plenty of nice people. Fringe junior middleweight contender Charles Whittaker and Main Events promoter Kathy Duva are two such folks. Unfortunately, outside of the ring, Whittaker…
