Syria crisis: Nato approves Patriots for Turkey
Nato has approved the deployment of Patriot anti-missile batteries along Turkey’s border with Syria. The long-expected move emerged from a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels, and amid growing fears that Syria could use chemical weapons. Nato’s Secretary General…
CIS wins the RBC Inter Schools sailing regatta
On Friday 23rd November, close to 50 sailors representing nine schools (Red Bay, Savannah, Cayman Prep, Prospect, Georgetown, St Ignatius, Cayman International School and Outer districts a combined East End and North Side Primary team) battled it out in the…
Cargo ship Volgo Balt 199 sinks off Turkey coast
At least three crew members are reported to have been saved after their cargo ship sank in the Black Sea near Turkey, but nine remain missing. Eleven Ukrainians and one Russian were on board the Volgo Balt 199 when it…
Helen Harquail is 100
Helen Harquail celebrated her 100th birthday at a private party in her honour at the Cayman Islands National Gallery on Saturday Dec. 1st. Although she is a founding member of the National Trust and a National Gallery board member, it is…
Top Gun Gunnar seals win for Grace Academy
Two first half strikes by Grace Academy’s Gunnar Studenhofft and a third from Jaden Ebanks were enough to see off a spirited George Town Primary in a thrilling Under 11 encounter at the Annex Field this past Saturday. Leading 3-0…
OCG Congratulates Public Bodies and OCG staff say “thank you”
OCG Congratulates Public Bodies for Registering a 100% QCA Report Submission Compliance Rate for Newly Introduced QCA Web Portal Kingston, Jamaica; December 4, 2012 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) congratulates all 197 Procuring Public Bodies and their…
Drugs can’t stop this deadly bacteria stalking 42 states
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The doctors tried one antibiotic after another, racing to stop the infection as it tore through the man’s body, but nothing worked. In a matter of days after the middle-aged patient arrived at University of Virginia Medical…
Cayman GDP worth US 3.08 billion in 2009
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Cayman Islands was worth 3.08 billion US dollars in 2009, according to a report published by the World Bank. The GDP value of Cayman Islands is roughly equivalent to 0 percent of the world…
Eric Ripert Explains Leaving DC and Philly, Teases a New NYC Project
by Amy McKeever Don’t panic, Eric Ripert‘s Grand Cayman restaurant Blue is safe from the carnage of last week in which the chef made back-to-back announcements that he was cutting ties with both his Washington, DC, and Philadelphia-based Ritz-Carlton restaurants….
Chinese are attracted to branded British universities
By Elizabeth Gasson ( China Daily) Bentley, Burberry and Cambridge University. What we perceive to be the best of British products for cars and clothes are the shiny labels – those that scream: “I am the best”. Yet, carrying…
