Passport2Success helps gain skills
Seventeen men between the ages of 21 and 40 began their passport2success programme, aimed at helping people gain the skills they need to find jobs. Each of the men has to be unemployed in order to qualify for the programme….
Cayman Islands Yellow Pages helps hungry children
Having recently celebrated the beginning of a new year with parties and families and friends we should not forget the hundreds of children in the Cayman Islands who faced hunger last year and will continue to do so in 2012….
Memorial walk raises scholarship funds for International College
Students, alumni, faculty and community members turned out for the 11th annual Hugh Cummings Memorial Run/Walk last weekend to raise money for the scholarship fund at the International College of the Cayman Islands. Raising more than $3,000, some 50 runners…
New head of Family Resource Centre
The Ministry of Community Affairs, Gender and Housing appointed Miriam Foster as the Family Resource Centre’s (FRC) Programme Coordinator earlier this month (1 February). Six years ago, Ms Foster joined the then Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) as an Administration Intake…
Up, up and away for 100 days of school!
Colourful balloons, costumes, happy children – all celebrating the number of days spent in school. Can that be right? Yes! If the number is 100 and the school is North Side Primary, where on last week the whole school participated…
Kids tidy up at Miss Lassie’s
Around 20 students, teachers and parents from George Town Primary School’s Year Two got together to help clean up Miss Lassie’s House at South Sound. The kids learned all about visionary painter the late Gladwyn Bush, better known as Miss…
Expect a robust show when the rodeo comes to town
Preparations are on track for the 45th Annual Agriculture Show, which will be held on Ash Wednesday, 22 February and from the sounds of it, the president of the Cayman Islands Agriculture Society is expecting a robust show. The Agriculture…
Double dose of fun at Books & Books
Young booklovers and their parents can meet New York Times bestselling children’s author Nancy Krulik at Books & Books, Camana Bay on Saturday, February 25 at 5pm. This special event will offer something for both boys and girls. First, Nancy…
Pretty in pink to help vets
Looking a pretty picture all dressed in pink, red or white, kids at George Town Primary School and their parents were celebrating Valentine’s Day by giving back to the community, and to their own school as well. “The first thing…
Circumnavigating the Globe with Bendel Hydes
Circumnavigating the Globe is the name of an exhibition consisting of 12 large paintings by Cayman’s premier visual artist, Bendel Hydes. It is the first art exhibition in the new National Gallery building. The paintings represent a sort of visual…
