Special late night event for Cayman Islands National Gallery
This summer, curators from the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) have revealed the inner workings of the museum’s Permanent Collection by converting the entire lower exhibition hall into a temporary research lab while undertaking a full evaluation of…
CWM clients launch class action against off shore bank [DMS Cayman Islands] over £50m Fund Fraud
By Andy Traveller From Finance Magnates Affected investors in CWM’s managed fund are seeking legal recourse over alleged fraud, filing a class action in a bid to recover money. Investors who were left out of pocket to the collective tune…
Cayman Islands: Pursuit of Excellence Scholarship Awarded
Higgs & Johnson awarded its ‘Pursuit of Excellence’, scholarship this year to Mr. Jaron Leslie. Mr. Leslie, the holder of a LLB (Hons) degree, as well as other academic degrees and accolades, will be undertaking the Professional Practice Course (PPC)…
Discrimination, homophobia, privilege and hate speech in Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly
By James Austen- Smith From Cayman Islands Human Rights Commission Like many others in Cayman, and elsewhere, the members of the Human Rights Commission were shocked to read reports of a ‘debate’ which took place in the Legislative Assembly on…
Autopsy shows St. Louis teen was shot in the back by police
By Megan Specia From Mashable A preliminary autopsy of an 18-year-old black man shot dead by St. Louis police earlier this week shows he was shot in the back. Mansur Ball-Bey’s death Wednesday ignited outrage in a community scarred by…
More bad news for DuPont: Teflon chemical builds up in breast-fed babies
By Bill Walker, Investigations Editor From ewg.org If you’re a chemical industry spin doctor trying to discredit the scientific evidence on the dangers of a compound that contaminates the drinking water of millions of Americans, Thursday was a bad day….
China seen as next boom for cruise industry
By Hannah Sampson From Miami Herald In early 2014, the cruise industry was steaming ahead with few surprises. New ships were on the horizon, including Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum of the Seas, which was headed where most new ships from…
Scientists reject claims of lab-grown mini human brain
From New Scientist Almost fully-formed brain grown in a lab. Woah: Scientists grow first nearly fully-formed human brain. Boffins raise five-week-old fetal human brain in the lab for experimentation. On Tuesday, all the above appeared as headlines for one particular…
Cayman Islands Cancer Society says “No Thanks” to local playwright with cancer
Georgina Wilcox Local award winning playwright, Colin Wilson, has been fighting prostate cancer for some time and having major issues with blockages, etc. After a number of emergency trips to the hospital he bit the bullet and last January had…
Cricket: WICB bans T&T’s Mohammed
The Disciplinary Tribunal of the West Indies Cricket Board announced today that Trinidad & Tobago batsman Jason Mohammed has been penalised under the WICB’s Code of Conduct. Mohammed has been banned for the first two matches of the Trinidad &…
