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Day: May 18, 2016

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Cayman Airways title sponsor of Invitational U14 Youth Cup 2016

Cayman Airways is delighted to announce its continued support of local football talent as title sponsor of the third Cayman Airways Invitational U14 Youth Cup. Players from local clubs Academy Sports Club and Sunset FC will be pitting their talent…

Cayman Islands Kerri Kanuga is back on the fundraising trail

Kerri Kanuga is back on the fundraising trail this Summer on behalf of the St Baldrick’s Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. Kerri kicks off her efforts on May 21 with the Key100 ultra-marathon, a 100 mile race starting in Key…

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Cayman Islands’ Free Actor’s Workshop to Take Place Local actors can participate in a free workshop taking place on Saturday 21 May at 2 p.m., at the Harquail Studio Theatre, as part of CayFilm. Participants ages 16 and up, will…

Cayman Islands Elections Office trains Returning Officers

The Elections Office conducted its first training sessions for 19 Returning Officers as well as Deputies. They will each play vital roles from the nomination process for candidates to the return of the successful candidate after votes are cast and…

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The Editor Speaks: Was the handling of the soccer mum case by the RCIPS excessive?

Absolutely! The police acted as judge and jury on the matter by sending the lady to jail. The police are NOT debt collectors. So what was the problem? Based on the knowledge I have gleaned from the television account, the…

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Olympic champion Usain Bolt receives treatment for ‘aggravated hamstring injury’

Agence France-Presse From The National Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is undergoing treatment in Germany for what his coach described as an “aggravated hamstring injury” following his first race of the season, local radio reported Monday. Glen Mills, Bolt’s coach, said…

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Alternative vector control methods to manage the Zika virus outbreak: more haste, less speed

From The Lancet As stated by Laith Yakob and Thomas Walker,1 the need for efficient and novel mosquito control methods in the context of the Zika virus outbreak is undisputed. However, technologies such as Release of Insects carrying Dominant Lethal…

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Cayman Islands 3rd Annual KPMG Glow Run 5K

With a total of 635 registered runners last year, The National Trust will partner with KPMG  to host  the 3rd annual Glow Run 5K in Grand Cayman on Saturday, June 4th. In keeping with the theme “Light up the Night…

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The Tradewinds Fiftieth

By Dave Martins From Clive Rosteing Here’s a coincidence: in 2016, as Guyana reaches 50 years as an independent country, the Tradewinds band is also 50 years old. The two things are not connected. It just happened to coincide that…

CIAA: Air cannon deployed to mitigate wildlife at the airport/CIAA seeks volunteers for emergency exercise

Air cannon deployed to mitigate wildlife at the airport Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (18 May, 2016) The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) has deployed “Zon Gun” propane cannons, better known as “air cannons” to help scare birds away from the…