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Day: March 20, 2018

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What you learn by giving 200 Senate speeches on climate change

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN From Mashable Every week the Senate has been in session since April 2012, one lonely Democratic senator from Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse, has taken to the Senate floor to speak about global warming. On March 13, Senator…

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Governor Designate’s first days in the Cayman Islands

GRAND CAYMAN (GIS) – Governor Designate Anwar Choudhury arrives in Grand Cayman on Monday, 26 March 2018 and will be engaged in official duties soon after his airplane lands. According to the Governor’s Office, the former Ambassador to Peru will…

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Survey begins on enhancing older persons’ health insurance in Cayman Islands

Survey underway invites input on possible development of a Standard Health Insurance Contract (SHIC) for persons aged 65 and older. Online and downloadable survey forms are available from the Department of Health Regulatory Services website. Deadline is 15 April 2018….

The Editor Speaks: The knives were out for the judge

Grand Court judge in the Cayman Islands, Ingrid Mangatal, pleaded guilty last week to driving under the influence of alcohol and careless driving. Judge Mangatal, former judge of the Jamaican Supreme Court was fined a total of CI$600 and her…

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Cable & Wireless Charitable Foundation to give grants totalling US$290,000

The Cable & Wireless Charitable Foundation today announced that it will provide additional funding of over US$290,000 to projects that will improve the lives of children in areas of the Caribbean impacted by last year’s hurricanes. This follows the Foundation’s…

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Levi Allen wins Cayman Islands EOM Excellence in Talent Development

Levi Allen of the Public Works Department (PWD) is the Cayman Islands Government Employee of the Month for January 2018, an accolade he has received for the “Pursuit of Excellence in Talent Development.” Mr Allen, Training, Development and Safety Officer,…

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Shannen Doherty guest speaker at 2018 Breast Cancer Foundation Gala

The Breast Cancer Foundation of Cayman is proud to announce that Shannen Doherty will be the guest speaker at this year’s Breast Cancer Foundation Gala, which will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman. “We…

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Enterprise Cayman encourages students to spend a “Summer in the City”

Cayman Enterprise City’s Enterprise Cayman initiative is now accepting applications for its annual “Summer in the City” internship programme. Now in its sixth year the programme aims to place 20+ young people with internship opportunities throughout Cayman Enterprise City (CEC)…

Patents issued for brain training in social and emotional cognition

(San Francisco, CA) – Posit Science, the maker of BrainHQ online brain exercises and assessments, has been issued two patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office on brain training that targets what scientists call “social cognition” and “emotional cognition,”…

Cayman Islands Premier pays tribute to passing of Governor’s father

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin said he was deeply saddened to have learned of the passing of the father of incoming Governor Anwar Choudhury. Mr. Afruz Bakht Choudhury, hailing from Sylhet in Bangladesh, left this earthly…