Comfort Suites Grand Cayman records best year ever
By Bevan Springer From St Maarten Island Time.Com GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – The Choice Hotels International, Inc. Caribbean portfolio continues to gain guest appeal. Comfort Suites Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman has recorded its best year since it…
Cayman Islands Immigration counter staff undergo customer training
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – The Department of Immigration closed its counters Wednesday so staff members could undergo customer service training following input from the public and a realisation that team building and workplace mediation was necessary to assist Counter…
New Non-resident FSD Judge begins sitting on Cayman Islands bench
Uniquely prepared to serve as a judge in the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, Justice Nigel Clifford, QC, commenced sitting late February. He will preside over a court before which he himself argued during…
ICCI releases performance report from accreditor: Job placement rate is 93 percent.
(GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS) – The International College of the Cayman Islands is celebrating another year of achievement in job placement performance of its graduates. The College’s international accrediting agency, The Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools, has released…
Cayman Islands: Parent Company Contribution Order: Potential Guidance for Irish Practitioners
By Robin McDonnell and Karole Cuddihy From Maples and Calder In Lewis Holdings Limited & Others v. Steel and Tube Holdings Limited,1 the High Court of New Zealand made an order requiring a parent company to contribute to the debts…
Grazing parrotfish help protect threatened Caribbean coral reefs
By Daniel Kelly From FishSens Magazine Prior to the 1980s, sea urchins were abundant in the Caribbean. They were important to the region’s ecosystem and played a vital role in helping to protect the region’s coral reefs. When their populations…
Anger over Ugandan government plan to send doctors to Caribbean
From DW Uganda wants to send hundreds of doctors and nurses to Trinidad and Tobago even though they are desperately needed at home. Critics are taking legal action against the government. Over the next few months Uganda is going to…
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson ‘intensely relaxed’ over BBC suspension
By John Plunkett From The Guardian BBC director general says he ‘needs facts’ on the presenter’s fracas with a producer and there is no timeline for the internal inquiry Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was said to be “intensely relaxed”…
Cartoon of the week
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,…
RMS Study shows significant tsunami risk in Caribbean, Mediterranean
From Insurance Journal RMS, the catastrophe risk management firm, has released a global tsunami risk study that identifies more than 20 subduction zones worldwide capable of generating a giant earthquake and tsunami – similar in scale to the March 11,…
