National Heroes Day Celebrations
National Heroes Day celebrations will honour the achievements, traditions and people of the Cayman Islands at Heroes Square in the heart of George Town on Monday, 27 January 2014, a public holiday. “On this day, we come together annually to…
Feds free to ‘liquidate’ seized silk road Bitcoins worth $25M
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchiera From Mashable Federal prosecutors are now free to cash in on the Bitcoin seized from the online drug marketplace Silk Road. United States District Judge J. Paul Oetken signed off on the forfeiture order for the Bitcoins,…
St Lucia police to charge three in murder of British tourist
[*see update below – 2 more arrests] From Caribbean360 The results of a post mortem on Robert Pratt indicate that he died of asphyxia secondary to blunt force trauma. CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Wednesday January 22, 2014, CMC – Charges are…
Aud Gen announces five reports on Cayman governance
The Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, made public on Wednesday January 22nd 2014 five reports on Governance in the Cayman Islands Government. The five reports describe how governance works in the Cayman Islands Government and provide an assessment of how well…
Alice Jane Ebanks retires from Public Health
After more than 42 years serving the Cayman Islands community as a public health nurse, Alice Jane Ebanks is hanging up her stethoscope. One of the longest-serving Cayman Islands Hospital employees will not be spending her upcoming free time resting,…
OAS anti-corruption mechanism to visit six Caribbean countries
From Caribbean News Now WASHINGTON, USA — The Anticorruption Mechanism of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold on-site visits in April to Belize, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname, in the framework of the…
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National Gallery Membership Drive 2014! Your generous support helps to fund our free education and outreach programmes, exhibitions and activities. In 2013, thanks to your membership, we were able to host 31 educational programmes, 8 exhibitions, and 57 community events….
iNews Briefs
Former Tempura boss files criminal complaint Martin Bridger, the former senior investigator in Operation Tempura has filed a criminal complaint with Cayman Islands Police Commissioner David Baines against Attorney General Samuel Bulgin, former Governor Stuart Jack and the U.K.’s Foreign…
Has science discovered God?
From Y-Jesus Einstein didn’t believe it was possible. Stephen Hawking said it might be the greatest scientific discovery of all time. What discovery baffled the greatest scientific minds of the past century, and what caused them to rethink the origin…
Ironwood wants 2,000,000 tyres for unique ‘Green Golf Course’
A new championship golf course planned for East End could be the answer to the government’s growing tire storage problem. Ironwood developers have researched the possibility of shredding the two million tyres and using them as fill and drainage under…
