The Editor Speaks: Am I a lone voice in saying how unimpressed I am with the Independents’ campaign?
I can still remember the excitement when the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) came on the scene last year at the end of November when well over a thousand of us assembled in the AL Thompson’s parking lot. We wanted a…
MOU signed on prison awareness programme
On Tuesday May 14th 2013 Cayman Island Chief Officers Mrs. Mary Rodriguez, JP, Ms Dorine Whittaker, JP, Mr. Eric Bush, JP, and Mr. Kevin McCormac, JP, were present at the Government Information Services Conference Room to sign a Memorandum of…
Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan declares emergency in states
BBC Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three states after a spate of deadly attacks by Islamist militant groups. In a televised address, he said he had given the military powers to take over security…
Visiting nations get ready to descend on Bermuda
From The Royal Gazette By Stephen Wright With just 60 days remaining before Bermuda host the 2013 NatWest Island Games, the 23 visiting nations are stepping up their preparations. Bermuda will host the biennial competition for the first time at…
“Bitcoin is the new Cayman Islands.”
From Free Market Income Day 7. Monday is the last day of Bitcoin living and it’s off to an exhausting start. My first night in the Bitcoin-paid hostel was not especially restful due to noise filtering in from Mission Street…
Nursing award presented
The Eloise Reid Excellence in Nursing Award was launched six years ago and it is awarded each year at the annual Cayman Islands National Nursing Conference during Nurses Week. The award is named after Eloise Reid, who retired from the…
Road to Riches: tracking the journey of the global superwealthy
From best Value Schools How rich is rich? While nearly 1 in 2 people on this planet have a net worth of less than $10,000, a select few are worth more than a million dollars. And an even more select…
Do children belong on adult sex offender registries?
By Marc Georges BBC News Experts argue that kids who commit sexual crimes have very different motivations to adults. Does that mean they should be exempt from sex offender registries? Sex offender registry and notification laws have been on the…
‘WikiLeaks of financial data’ prompts worldwide hunt for tax evaders
By John Leyden From The Register ‘We’re coming after you’ – taxman warns A cache of data amounting to a whopping 400 gigabytes of information leaked by bank insiders has triggered an offshore tax evasion investigation across the United States,…
Tea Party Groups to IRS: ‘Apology not accepted’
From Newsmax The White House and the Internal Revenue Service have apologized for the extra scrutiny of conservative political groups by the IRS during the 2012 presidential election, but “their apology is not accepted,” one tea party leader said Friday….
