Taste of Cayman prepares to celebrate 30 years of food and drink
The Taste of Cayman Food and Drink Festival organisers are setting the stage for the largest festival yet, as the event prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary with more features and activities than ever before. The festival, which is the Cayman…
Final group of Cayman Islands’ officers returns from BVI as the RCIPS ends its deployments to the sister territory
From RCIPS The latest deployment of RCIPS officers to the British Virgin Islands returned to Cayman yesterday, 18 January. The return of this group of seven officers, who remained in BVI over the holiday period, marks the end of the…
Expert Director joins Cayman Islands accountancy firm
Global accountancy, tax and advisory firm Grant Thornton is pleased to announce its continued growth in the Cayman Islands with the recruitment of Margot MacInnis as a director of Grant Thornton Specialist Services (Cayman) Limited, their Cayman based restructuring and…
From The Publisher
Our thatch palm shows the “way we coming from” By Joan E. (Watler) Wilson Life is so hectic today I wonder where the day has gone, let alone the hours. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older and time does seem…
Five Charleston women tapped to serve on Atlanta Food & Wine’s all-female advisory council
By Stephanie Barna From Post and Courier The Atlanta Food & Wine Festival’s 2018 advisory council is made up of more than 60 women, including five from Charleston: Ann Marshall of High Wire Distilling, Michelle Weaver of Charleston Grill, Cynthia…
UK Judge: collapse of sex crime trials could lead to rapists going free
Patrick Greenfield From The Guardian UK Series of blunders by police and CPS may see juries doubting evidence, says Lord Judge The notable collapse of a series of rape trials could endanger future convictions of genuine rapists because of reduced…
Peter Polack: The case against a new Cayman Court House
By Peter Polack The present congestion and lack of court space has its genesis in several factors the greatest of which was the 2011 removal of the preliminary inquiries in the Summary Court. The brief and low resource preliminary inquiry…
Call for underwater photographers: new National Gallery exhibition celebrates coral reefs in the Cayman Islands.
2018 is the third International Year of the Coral Reef, a programme of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) which is an informal partnership between Nations and Organisations which strive to preserve coral reefs and related ecosystems around the world….
Oxitec hopeful for GM mosquito release this year
BY KATIE ATKINS From FLKEYSNEWS There hasn’t been much talk of releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys for a while, but a trial could happen in the coming months. British biotech company Oxitec wants to release its genetically…
Ozuna & Bad Bunny campaign for teen boy’s heart transplant, challenge other stars to donate
By Marjua Estevez From Billboard Thirteen-year-old Andy, a Dominican native currently at the hospital in the Cayman Islands, has undergone four surgeries already but is still in dire need of a heart transplant. Another surgery without a new heart could end his…