Cayman Islands: Two separate vehicular accidents Sun 13 August
From RCIPS Three Vehicle Collision on West Bay Road, 13 August The 9-1-1 Communication Centre dispatched police and other emergency personnel to a motor vehicle collision involving 3 vehicles on West Bay Road, just passed the Lawrence Blvd stop light,…
Vandalism of Statues on Cayman Brac Discovered Saturday, 12 August
From RCIPS On Saturday, 12 August, police responded to a complaint of damage to property at a location on Southside Road on Cayman Brac. Some statues on display at the location, a vacant lot, were observed lying on the ground…
14 Aug Weather in Cayman & Tropical Report, 1TS & 1 Dist Atlantic
Aug 14 Monday 2017 Tropical Report Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Mon Aug 14 2017 For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on…
Cayman Islands police and local community launch clean-up initiative
Major Police and Community Collaboration Project in West Bay, 9 August Yesterday, 9 August, the community of West Bay in conjunction with West Bay police officers launched a clean-up initiative in the King Road area, targeting old, abandoned vehicles and…
Mistress of Ian Fleming and last survivor of families who ran Jamaica, dies
In Passing From The Sydney Morning Herald Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was the mother of the record mogul Chris Blackwell, the mistress of novelist Ian Fleming and one of the last survivors from the age when some…
Boom Mas again ‘Escape(s) to Rio’
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life While last year’s Summer Olympics have come and gone in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Brooklyn’s Boom Mas, LLC is again “Escap(ing) to Rio” for carnival. “This year, we want everyone to come…
The Editor Speaks: Civil unrest
We have seen a huge increase over the last few years in civil unrest. Some, to an extent justified, as in Venezuela and some completely insane as in Charlottesville, yesterday (Sat). We have never seen civil unrest here in the…
Cayman Islands: Trends in side letters and third-party
Article by John D’Agostino From DMS Governance Ltd While analyzing current trends within the industry, two areas in particular stand out: the increasing complexity of side letters and the increased reliance on 3rd party valuation firms for complex assets. Side…
Malicious code written into DNA infects the computer that reads it
By Devin Coldewey From TechCrunch In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer with a malicious program coded into a strand of DNA. It sounds like science fiction, but I assure…
Eggs containing fipronil found in 15 EU countries and Hong Kong
From BBC Fifteen EU countries as well as Hong Kong and Switzerland have received eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil, the European Commission says. The commission will hold a meeting with ministers and regulators on 26 September. Its food safety…