Mike Tyson: ‘I’m on the verge of dying from alcoholism’
From Chron Former boxing champ Mike Tyson fought back tears as he confessed he has been “lying to everybody” about his sobriety as he opened up about his alcoholism battle at a press conference on Friday. The sporting icon told…
THE GIANT BUDDHA
By Trey Ratcliffe From Stuck In Customs I don’t usually get all wikipedia-ish on the blog… but I did look up more things about this most fascinating statue. Maybe the coolest thing is that 8 meters (over 25 feet!) of…
UWI Cave Hill students to have tuition talks with Barbados government
From Go-Jamaica Students at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies are seeking dialogue with the Barbados government following its decision to discontinue paying tuition fees for nationals studying at the tertiary institution. The Student’s Guild…
How 1986 Games were on brink of being cancelled
By Marc Horne From The Scotsman SECRET papers have revealed that senior officials in the Thatcher government were relaxed about an all-white Commonwealth Games in Scotland due to a boycott by African and Caribbean nations. Ministerial correspondence, which has been…
UN chief says peacekeeping force in Haiti should be cut; Mission blamed for cholera epidemic
By Associated Press From The Washington Post UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended a 15 percent reduction in the number of U.N. troops in Haiti on Tuesday and an examination of whether the beleaguered peacekeeping operation remains the best…
Taxman embroiled in dispute over MYOB purchase
BY: Leo Shanahan From: The Australian Increase Text Size Lawyers for the Sage Group have questioned whether the Australian Taxation Office may have a problem with a $1 billion contract to purchase software company MYOB from Archer Capital being executed…
Extended After-School Programme Receives More Funds
Scotiabank and Trust (Cayman) Ltd. presented a significant donation to the Ministry of Education’s Extended After-School Programme (EASP). Michael Myles received a cheque for EASP in the amount of CI$5,000 from Scotiabank’s Foster’s Airport Branch Manager Egerton Anderson, Assistant Manager…
New Governor tours offices
A familiarisation tour of government offices was on the agenda for Governor Helen Kilpatrick’s first day of work on Monday, 9 September 2013. Accompanied by Deputy Governor, the Hon. Franz Manderson, she visited many Ministries, Portfolios, and some departments in…
Cayman Airways refuses to accept responsibility for their own change
In these troubled times this is the last thing we want to hear from Cayman Airways. They make a change at the last minute to a flight and because they don’t open their office until after the new flight leaves…
New Jersey man builds giant gun mailbox for freedom, attention
By Joe Coscarelli, From New York Magazine Roger Buchko, a cabinet builder and metal fabricator from New Jersey, has a 350-pound replica of a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum as a mailbox. (The envelopes go in the barrel.) “It’s just…
