Miss Cayman Universe: What a year it’s been!
Welcome to the Miss Cayman Islands Universe quarterly newsletter. It’s a new year, and we are so excited to see what 2022 has in store! As we collectively turn the page to a new chapter, let’s look back and reflect…
Cayman: Ministry of Home Affairs appoint Interim Senior Staff to the Department of Community Rehabilitation (DCR)
Grand Cayman, 4 January 2022 –The Ministry of Home Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Melissa Rivas and Erica Ebanks to the posts of Acting Director and Acting Deputy Director in the Department of Community Rehabilitation (DCR). DCR is…
Cayman: COVID-19 Update – 4 January, 491 NEW Positives (11 in Sister Islands),476 probable Omicron cases
Grand Cayman – Chief Medical Officer (Interim) Dr. Autilia Newton reported 491 new cases of COVID-19, 62 in travellers and 429 from the community on Tuesday, 4 January. Public Health reported 1674 PCR tests were conducted since the last report on…
Local vegetables flood SVG markets!
OECS Media Release Courtesy St. Vincent Times Tuesday, January 4, 2022 — Consumers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are celebrating some of the best prices for vegetables in decades. In a period marked by global food shortages and disruptions in…
Cayman Islands Museum 2021 Year in Review
Events, Programmes, Exhibitions & Outreach LEARN MORE CLICK HERE Repairing the National Museum’s largest water-going vesselRestoration of this late 1800s nineteen-foot dory – the National Museum’s largest water-going vessel – is currently underway by traditional artisan Darwin Ebanks to maintain…
Women Skateboarders at Tokyo 2020 win Fair Play Award
04 Jan 2022 – Seven skateboarders have collectively won the Tokyo 2020 Fair Play Award, for an extraordinary display of sporting spirit during the Olympic Games. Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki of Japan, Brazilians Dora Varella and Yndiara Asp, Britain’s Sky Brown, Australian Poppy…
Beijing 2022 Main Media Centre opens with one month to go
04 Jan 2022 – With only one month until the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 begin, the Main Media Centre (MMC) opened today. The 98,000-square-metre facility will welcome media from across the world who will report on all of the action from this year’s…
US: New auto sales up in 2021, but long way before full recovery
From Newsmax U.S. new vehicle sales rebounded slightly last year from 2020’s dismal numbers, but forecasters expect them to be more than 2 million below the years before the coronavirus pandemic. Computer Chips Still Missing The reason? Although there are…
US: Manufacturing activity moderates in December; Supply constraints ebbing
U.S. manufacturing slowed in December amid some cooling in demand for goods, but supply constraints are starting to ease and a measure of prices paid for inputs by factories fell by the most since early 2020 when the pandemic disrupted…
US: Jury finds Theranos Founder Holmes Guilty in Fraud Case
From Newsmax A jury on Monday found Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in the blood testing startup. The verdict was still being read aloud in the courtroom. Prosecutors said Holmes, 37, swindled private investors between…
