Danny John-Jules: Ben Miller helped me improve in “Death in Paradise”
From The List Danny John-Jules felt he needed to improve on ‘Death in Paradise’ after watching Ben Miller. The ‘Red Dwarf’ actor plays Dwayne Myers, one of a group of British policeman on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, in…
Rihanna sports blue bikini for Christmas, shows Instagram followers how to “twerk” Caribbean style
By Star Cooper From Mstarz Looks like summer came to the Barbados for Christmas. Pop star princess, Rihanna sported a blue bikini while sailing the Caribbean seas. The photo of the glowing star was posted on her Instagram, along with…
At 94, he must let go of his piece of paradise
By Thomas Curwen From Los Angeles Times Photography And Video By Barbara Davidson Reporting from the Ventana Wilderness As night begins to fall and the lighting in the cabin grows dim, Jack English takes the Coleman lanterns outside to fill…
Cayman Islands air arrivals continue up – cruise ship arrivals continue down
The latest tourism figures from the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism show a continued rise in air tourist visitors. The figures continue a trend of improving arrival numbers for 2013. With the exception of May, every month this year has…
African dust makes journey to Caribbean
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ From the Durango Herald Scientists studying particles’ effect on climate, health PHOTO: In this Aug. 19 satellite image, African dust blowing over the eastern Atlantic Ocean approaches the Canary Islands. Each summer, dust particles from African sandstorms…
Holiday Greetings from the Deputy Governor
Season’s Greetings! This has certainly been an action-packed year for the Cayman Islands Civil Service. In rapid succession we successfully tackled our largest ever General Elections in May, the subsequent addition of two new Ministers to Cabinet, and ceremonies that…
UPDATE: Cruise ship spends Christmas stuck in ice off Antarctica – rescued by helicopter
UPDATED: Antarctic rescue of Akademik Shokalskiy ship completed From BBC Rescuers in Antarctica have safely transferred all 52 passengers stranded on the ice-bound research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy. The Australian rescue operators said the scientists and tourists were now all aboard the…
Cayman Airways flight turns back amid safety concerns
On Saturday 28th December a Cayman Airways plane, flight KX105, departed Owen Roberts International Airport (ORIA) for Cayman Brac at 6:40 p.m., and experienced “an anomaly with one of the aircraft’s flight control systems approximately 10 minutes into the flight,”…
The Editor speaks: Cayman passport concerns
Cayman’s premier, Alden McLaughlin, on December 15th 2013, issued a statement concerning the issuance of passports by the United Kingdom (UK). He said he had “grave concerns” on the issue of replacing locally printed non-biometric “Cayman Islands” passports with UK…
