Transocean agrees to pay $1.4bn oil spill fine
Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, has agreed to a settlement with the US government. The Swiss-based company will pay $400m (£248m) in criminal penalties and a $1bn civil fine after pleading guilty to violating the Clean Water…
India gang-rape: Five suspects charged in Delhi
Indian authorities have charged five men with the kidnap, gang rape and murder of a woman in Delhi last month. The 23-year-old died of her injuries two weeks after the 16 December attack. The five men will be tried in…
UK prime minister rebuffs Argentina over Falklands
The future of the Falkland Islands is up to its inhabitants – not Argentina, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. It comes after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner urged the prime minister to abide by a 1965 UN resolution to “negotiate…
Think Left and the UK Tory Party
This opinion piece on the Think Left website represents an interesting observation on the governing UK Conservative Party that some persons say are interfering too much in our own decision making in the Cayman Islands. Note however, that as the…
Transparency goal for UK PS
The head of Britain’s Public Service (PS) Sir Jeremy Heywood has called for a ‘transparency revolution’ in Whitehall to make the UK Government the “most open” in the world. As Secretary to Cabinet, Sir Jeremy admitted that in the past…
NCC Contract Endorsements – September 2012
NCC Contract Endorsements – September 2012The following contract award recommendations have been endorsed and/or approved by the National Contracts Commission (NCC) during September 2012, for award, under the powers which are reserved to the NCC by Sections 23D(1)(b) & (c)…
Public servants elsewhere in the world facing problems with staffing, pay and conditions
It is not just here in the Cayman Islands where cutbacks are the order of the day in the Public Service. Here are two stories one from Northern Ireland and the other from Ireland (Eire) Strike plans being drawn up…
OCG refers Jamaican Cabinet to DPP
OCG Refers the Cabinet of Jamaica for Criminal Prosecution for its Collective Failure to Comply with Several Lawful Requisitions of a Contractor General Kingston; January 2, 2013 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has today formally referred the…
The 2012 U.S. fire season was the 3rd worst in U.S. history
By Dr. Jeff Masters, Weather Underground The Exceptional U.S. Wildfire Season of 2012 The 2012 U.S. fire season was the 3rd worst in U.S. history, with 9.2 million acres burned–an area larger than the state of Maryland. Since the National…
Mourant Ozannes maintains support for young Cayman cricketers
Mourant Ozannes will maintain its support for the Cayman Islands Cricket Association by renewing its sponsorship of youth cricket initiatives. The law firm has developed a relationship with Cayman Islands Cricket Association (CICA) over several years and the renewed sponsorship…
