‘$Million shootout’ for Cayman Crime Stoppers
GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman: A one million dollar prize is up for grabs at the annual Cayman Crime Stoppers golf tournament, the organization’s major fundraising initiative for the year. Teams will compete in a scramble format tournament, with prizes for…
Cayman Islands University Graduate to present at International Business Conference
The characteristics of successful Caymanian entrepreneurs will soon be considered by intellectuals across the region at the 2015 Business and Management Conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Transforming her master’s thesis into an international discussion piece, Ms. Tracy Ebanks, General Manager…
Cayman Islands want to Gimistory
Calling storytellers of all ages! Do you have what it takes to be a part of Gimistory, the Cayman Islands’ International Storytelling Festival? We are inviting tellers of all ages from Cayman and all over the world to perform for…
7 Cases of Chikungunya confirmed in Cayman Islands
From Cayman Islands Public Health Department Chikungunya Update in Cayman Islands as of 22 September 2014 The total number of confirmed cases of chikungunya has reached seven as at 22 September 2014. Since the last update on 15 September 2014,…
Right to Know Week 2014
Joint Statement of the Deputy Governor Mr. Franz Manderson, and Acting Information Commissioner, Mr. Jan Liebaers. We are pleased to jointly launch the 2014 Right to Know Week celebrations. This is the sixth year that the right to access government…
Gutiérrez Lee to Serve as Area Director for Iberoamerica and the Caribbean
From ABCUSA VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/23/14)—Rev. Adalia Gutiérrez Lee has accepted the invitation to serve as the International Ministries (IM) area director for Iberoamerica and the Caribbean. Gutiérrez Lee, current IM missionary in Mexico, will be succeeding José Norat-Rodriguez…
CDB publishes TCI Country Poverty Assessment Report
From Caribbean Development The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has published its Country Poverty Assessment Report for the Turks and Caicos Islands for the period 1999 -2012. The comprehensive study which may be accessed via the Bank’s website assesses the social…
Six reefs in disputed Spratlys turned into islets by China
From Want China Times China’s proactive campaign to assert its territorial claims over most of the South China Sea has taken another step after satellite images revealed that six reefs in the disputed Spratly Islands have been effectively turned into…
Beauty, brains and business
By Michelle Martin From The Voice One woman’s dream to reinvent the beauty pageant to include all ages, shapes and sizes IN AMERICA, the pageant industry is big business. Actresses like Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams and media mogul Oprah Winfrey…
NASA has determined where the mysterious jelly-doughnut rock on Mars came from
By Dina Spector NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ./Business Insider Attached image shows Pinnacle Island in the lower left corner and where the piece of rock had been before it appeared in front of the rover. Scientists have confirmed that a strange-looking…