CCRIF Retains Sagicor as its Insurance Manager
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is pleased to announce the retention of Sagicor Insurance Managers Ltd. (Sagicor) as insurance manager for the Facility for the next three years, commencing June 1, 2012. CCRIF was launched in June 2007…
Defining and Defending My Poetry
By H.M. Peter Westin I enjoy writing poetry. If I had to define the style of poetry I write, I would characterize it as ‘free verse’. Free verse poetry typically has no rhyme scheme or stratified stanza style format. The…
“Cayman Heat” Murder in the Cayman Islands
Connie Reeves Cooke is just back from New York where she introduced her second novel, Cayman Heat, at Book Expo America and Blogworld New Media Expo. Following that soft launch of the riveting page-turner (yes, I’ve read it), Connie hits…
Cricket: West Indies beat New Zealand twice in Florida, USA!
1st T20I: New Zealand v West Indies at Lauderhill – Jun 30, 2012 West Indies 209/2 (20/20 ov); New Zealand 153 (18.3/20 ov) West Indies won by 56 runs Any worries that the first Twenty20 international in Lauderhill, Florida, would…
Homophobia still strong in Cayman
By: Quincy Brown As a member of the Roman Catholic Church in the Cayman Islands, I have from time to time on my own accord taken on the role of apologist and defender of the Catholic faith in local newspapers…
“Obama: take a look at Delaware,” says Cayman Islands
Nothing about 1209 North Orange Street hints at the secrets inside. It’s a humdrum office building, a low-slung affair with a faded awning and a view of a parking garage. Hardly worth a second glance. If a first one. But…
Cayman Islands flag flies at Eland House
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles raised the flag of the Cayman Islands today outside the Department for Communities and Local Government in Whitehall, London, to mark the national day of the Islands, the first Monday of July, and as part of…
Supreme Court Keeps Health Care Law on Life Support
A Commentary By Scott Rasmussen The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that President Obama’s health care law is constitutional keeps it alive for now. But it’s important to remember that the law has already lost in the court of public opinion….
Welcome found guilty
Suspended RCIPS officer, Rabe Welcome, was found guilty last Thursday (28) by jury of wounding after he broke the arm of Adolphus Myrie as he executed an arrest while off duty in 2009.Mr. Myrie also received cuts to his face….
Christina goes to the moon
By Christina Jackson (age 8), Red Bay Primary School, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands It all started when I was heading straight to class as soon as the bell rang. I walked in class and I spotted a visitor in our…
