NGCI Weekly News
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) is planning some exciting exhibitions, programmes and events for 2014. Gallery memberships make for great gifts! Holiday Hours The National Gallery’s exhibition halls will be open during the holiday season. Please see…
HFA Symposium: Issues and opportunities facing hedge fund industry
The landscape under which Hedge Funds now operate has evolved enormously over the past few years, leading to a number of challenges and opportunities for those within the industry. It is as important as ever for practitioners in the Hedge…
World-class service with Cayman Islands Interior Design
When you’re looking for Cayman Islands interior designs, it’s easy to feel like your choices are limited. Local interior designers seem focused on the high-end, working exclusively with residents and businesses on the islands themselves. But the best interior design…
Caribbean and Drugs: Time for some healing?
By Robin Wigglesworth From Pulitzer Center Richard Thomas, a dreadlocked Jamaican sound engineer and musician, is still livid over the last time he was arrested and briefly jailed for smoking marijuana. While his country is plagued by one of the…
Young man’s reaction to college acceptance is beautiful
By Neha Prakash From Mashable Rion Holcombe just got the letter of a lifetime. The 20-year-old, who lives with down syndrome, received his college acceptance letter recently — and his reaction is nothing short of heartwarming. “I got accepted?” They…
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,…
Google slapped with $1.2 million fine for breaking privacy laws
By Jacob Siegal From BGR Google is in trouble once again, and this time it’s not for something nearly as subtle as giant, mysterious barges floating in U.S. waters. Reuters reports that Google is being fined €900,000 ($1.23 million USD)…
Splash, dash, and dine
KPMG is supporting Splash, Dash and Dine event with the Olympic Gold Medal winner and World Record holder, Rūta Meilutytė, and her Coach, Jon Rudd. “We are extremely pleased that Rūta and Jon will be our guests for the 2014…
Golden Apple Awards Gala in honour of the teaching profession
From Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce Amidst the setting of a Golden Apple themed and sparkling ballroom at The Westin, Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa, the 2013 Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching Awards Gala was…
They’re here. They’re investable. Get used to it.
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist This June saw not one but two watershed moments in the struggle for gay rights in America. In separate rulings that month, the Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California and…