Energising after-school activities
The week starting Monday, 9 January 2012, GIS Spotlight revisits children engaging in wholesome activities, reviews rehabilitation and re-scans the night sky. First, we transport you to energising after-school activities for children featuring sports, performing arts and hands-on lessons that…
Butterfield names Executive Chairman Designate
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited (“Butterfield” or the “Bank”) today announced that Mr. Brendan McDonagh, who was previously Chief Executive Officer, HSBC North America and Group Managing Director, HSBC…
Cayman National Bank expands and installs ATM in Little Cayman
Cayman National Bank officially opened its newly expanded Little Cayman Customer Service Centre 15th December 2011 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony coupled with a Customer Appreciation day for its customers. The ceremony was kicked off by the students of the Little…
Mayweather due to serve 90 days in jail in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is due Friday to begin serving 90 days in a county jail in Las Vegas for his guilty plea in a domestic violence case involving an attack on his ex-girlfriend while two…
BEST IN THE CARIB
Shetty’s hospital will be the envy of the Caribbean … Hospital will be open in 2013 Groundbreaking on the 140-bed initial phase of Dr Devi Shetty’s Narayana Medical Centre and University is set for August this year, with the first patients admitted 12…
Radio broadcaster shot dead in south Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen fatally shot a radio broadcaster as he drove his car with his wife and son in what an advocacy group said Friday was the 150th journalist slain in the Philippines since democracy was restored in…
Pope names new cardinals
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals Friday, including prelates in such key posts as New York and Hong Kong and a large group of Italians holding major Vatican positions. Cardinals are the pope’s top advisers,…
Boat parade and dive marks Kittiwake anniversary
A circle of nearly a dozen dive boats and other small vessels marked the first anniversary of the sinking of the Kittiwake, a designer dive-site off the coast of West Bay. The parade, which was organised by the Department of…
Philippines to shut some mines after landslide
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government on Friday ordered the shutdown of gold-mining tunnels threatened by landslides in a southern town where a chunk of a mountain tumbled down on sleeping residents, killing at least 27 people. The landslide…
