Webb wins “Protect the Goal” Award for the Diaspora
The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Names Webb First Recipient of the “Protect the Goal” Award for the Diaspora CONCACAF President Honored at Confederation’s Inaugural Sports Summit Cayman Islands, October 21, 2013 — (UNAIDS) will announce today, at…
Saxon Investment Club back in high schools
Dozens of high school students will be spending the next six months trading stocks, managing investments and learning about the financial markets, as part of the Saxon Investment Club programme for high school and college students. Now in its fifth…
Cayman Islands Stock Exchange – continuing obligations for issuers with listed eurobonds
By Peter Longstaffe Ogier Continuing Obligations This Client Briefing has been prepared for the assistance of directors of companies listing “eurobonds” as defined in Chapter 1 of the listing rules (the Listing Rules) of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (the…
NASA engineer builds Halloween costume that syncs with your Smartphone
By Patrick Clark for Businessweek From Mashable Two years ago, Mark Rober was an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., part of a team that worked on the Curiosity rover. For Halloween, he strapped an iPad to…
Leila Elberta Ross-Shier composer of National Song remembered
Georgina Wilcox How many of us here in Cayman did not remember the significance of September 26th? I didn’t but our publisher Joan Wilson did. On September 26th 1968 Leila Elberta Ross-Shier died. And who was Leila Elberta Ross-Shier? Born…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Dubai tops in global living report [Cayman is second]
From Trade Arabia Dubai ranks top among leading cities around the world in a guide to global living published by Knight Frank. Taken into account four key life style factors including education, climate, leisure pursuits and the availability of quality…
Dallas chef heads for Cayman Islands
From Side Dish Chef Jason Maddy Leaves Dallas, Heads to Grand Cayman Island Jason Maddy, the former executive chef at Oak, has left Dallas for a position at the Royal Palms Beach Club on Grand Cayman Island. The talented chef…
Dirty fuel tanks could be the cause of poor fuel quality says Minister
Georgina Wilcox Kurt Tibbetts, Minister for Planning, Lands, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure said in the legislative Assembly last week that dirty fuel tanks at the local petrol stations could be the cause of poor fuel quality. The poor fuel quality…
Oprah Tells Obama ‘No’ for Obamacare Help
By Sandy Fitzgerald From newsmax Celebrities may be lining up to push the president’s healthcare insurance plan, but Obamacare will not be getting any Oprahcare any time soon. Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, who went all out during the 2008…
