June 1 is start of Hurricane Season
From Hazard Management The Cayman Islands are vulnerable to a number of different hazards including hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods, but with the beginning of the hurricane season right around the corner (June 1st), it is especially important that residents…
NOAA, Inter-American Development Bank Sign MOU to Help Latin American, Caribbean Nations Prepare, Respond To Severe Weather
NOAA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Inter-American Development Bank to explore cooperation in promoting programs and projects that use NOAA satellite imagery to quickly mobilize resources to areas in Latin America and the Caribbean affected by life-threatening storms,…
Lateral Thinking: Cayman Islands SPVs Tax Resident in Ireland
By Dale Crowley, Wanda Ebanks, Nollaig Murphy, Andrew Quinn, Mark Western From Maples, Cayman Islands, Dublin Cayman Islands and Irish off balance sheet and on balance sheet special purpose vehicles (“SPVs”) are often used in aircraft financings. The SPV’s role…
Cayman detectives seek witnesses to weekend assaults
George Town CID are appealing for witnesses in two separate incidences of violence over the weekend in which a number of persons received injuries from bladed weapons. The first incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning at approximately…
DMS/Grand Cayman Ups Blake Rogers to Operations Manager
DMS BROADCASTING/GRAND CAYMAN has promoted Top 40 ZFKX (X107.1) and AC ZFKK (106.1 KISS-FM) PD BLAKE ROGERS to OM of the cluster, which also includes Rock ZFKS (96.5 CAYROCK), and Caribbean ZFKH (HOT 104.1). ROGERS will continue to co-host the…
Jump League gathers pace at Cayman Riding School
On 26th April, 2014, show jumpers gathered at Cayman Riding School’s Hirst Road arena for the penultimate leg of Cayman’s National Show Jumping League. Quarantine restrictions at the Equestrian Centre left only Cayman Riding School riders on the order of…
Awesome photos from the Berlin Air Show
By Benjamin Zhang From Business Insider The 2014 edition of the Berlin Air Show took place this week at Berlin ExpoCenter Airport, with festivities both in the air and on the ground. First held in 1909, the air show proclaims…
Star studded charity game to be a highlight of final week celebrations in St. Kitts
Kingston, Jamaica — [On Thu 22 May], cricketing legends, Sir Ian “Beefy” Botham and Brian Lara, together with media personality, Piers Morgan, have teamed up with the Limacol Caribbean Premier League to announce ‘Beefy’s Bash’, an all-star charity T20 game…
Another Bermuda “Jetgate” casualty as AG quits post
By Ivan Clifford From Caribbean360 HAMILTON, Bermuda, Friday May 22, 2014, CMC – Mark Pettingill resigned as Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs on Thursday as the fall-out over the so-called Jetgate affair that had already resulted in the…
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,…
