Astronaut, Senator John Glenn dies at 95
From Newsmax John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original…
The Editor Speaks: Cruise ship terminal – hot potato on all sides and centre
If there ever was a hot potato in the Cayman Islands it is a cruise berthing facility. Any government is damned if they go ahead and equally damned if they don’t. That is where the independent members stand a better…
Jho Low’s family wants to change Swiss trustees
From Straits Times LOS ANGELES • Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho’s family is reaching far and wide to stop the United States from seizing US$650 million (S$921 million) in real estate and investments the government claims were acquired with funds…
UK Coastguard to Conduct Review of Cayman Islands Search and Rescue capability
Officers from the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) have arrived in the Cayman Islands to begin a review of search and rescue capability. Phil Bostock, National Maritime Operations Commander and Naomi Davies, MCA International Projects Co-ordinator will be here for…
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Volunteers wanted for Taste of Cayman Food & Drink Festival 2017
Registration for volunteers for the 29th annual Taste of Cayman Food & Drink Festival is now open. The Cayman Islands Tourism Association (CITA)’s annual fundraiser, Taste of Cayman Food & Drink Festival is one of the largest and longest running…
Cayman Islands police launches 2016 Holiday Safety Campaign
By Jacqueline Carpenter From RCIPS RCIPS Launches 2016 Holiday Safety Campaign with Focus on Road Safety Yesterday afternoon, 7 December, the RCIPS Traffic Management Unit began its intensified road enforcement operations for the holiday season, which will continue throughout December…
ISIS in the Caribbean
By SIMON COTTEE From The Atlantic Trinidad has the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. How did this happen? This summer, the so-called Islamic State published issue 15 of its online magazine Dabiq. In what has…
Cayman Islands: CHC Group foreign proceeding approval sought
BY BRANDY CHETSA From Bankrupt Company News CHC Group filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court a motion for entry of an order authorizing a Debtor affiliate to commence a foreign an ancillary proceeding in the Cayman Islands with respect to CHC…
Calls for ‘All Hands on Deck’ as Caribbean islands recover from devastating rains
By Janel Ramkalawan From Global Voices A tropical disturbance, caused by a trough of low pressure, provoked severe weather conditions in several Central-Eastern Caribbean islands recently. Thundershowers and torrential rainfall began on November 28, 2016 and continued well into the…
Ministry of Tourism seeks financial consultants for Cayman Islands cruise pier project
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – With the review of the re-worked cruise pier plans nearing completion, the Ministry of Tourism is seeking to engage consultants with experience in Cruise Lines negotiations to develop the financial modelling aspects of the project…
