Memories of 1939 By: Brenda Quin
The month was August, a few weeks into summer vacation. I was 11 years old that month, and the best part of the holiday was time at my Great Uncle Sterling Fisher’s property ‘Mount Pleasant’, a few miles above Runaway…
Anyone for Pi? Mods and hacks for the Raspberry Pi
by Nick Heath An enthusiastic modding community has been playing with the $40 Raspberry Pi Linux computer for the past couple of months and they’ve not been wasting time. Hacks and mods for the credit-card sized device range from speech-controlled…
US Supreme Court upholds healthcare
The US Supreme Court has said President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform act is constitutional. The court upheld a core requirement known as the “individual mandate” that Americans buy insurance or pay a fine. Of the nine justices on the…
Ogier Art Award 2012 Winners Announced
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) and Ogier joined forces once again this year to host the annual Ogier Art Award. Now in its third year, the competition was created as part of the Ogier Corporate Giving Philosophy…
Cancer sufferer gains a new life and goes snorkelling in the Cayman Islands
For Sheila Scott, it was a defining moment. She stood knee deep in the beautiful blue Caribbean waters off the shore of the Cayman Islands, donned her mask and snorkel, took a breath and dove into the warm water in…
New App for iPhone Launched in Cayman Islands
Posted on the www.topix.com site it says the LOLpipe app is getting a lot of mentions around the Cayman’s, and it’s FREE. LOLpipe is a fun and subversive new app for iPhone for adding text captions and artwork to photos….
Children’s Art Day Camp at the Brac sure to excite
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands will host, for the fifth year running, an Art Day Camp on Cayman Brac on 28 July. The camp, to be held at the Heritage House, is open to children of all ages…
Message from Minister of Health the Hon. Mark Scotland in support of the Lions Club of Grand Cayman’s Prostrate and Colon Cancer Event 30 June – 2 July 2012
According to the US Centres of Disease Control (CDC) about 1 man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer….
New Cayman Visitor App announced
Cayman Islands Tourism Association and CayApp are proud to introduce their new app, Cayman Visitor. Whether you are planning a vacation for a day or a year, Cayman Visitor is the mobile answer to all your questions. Cayman Visitor will…
More genetically engineered mosquitoes released** (** see Dr. Reeves email below article)
Do you remember the Frankenstein mosquitoes and the lack of transparency the UK firm Oxitec executed here in the Cayman Islands in 2009 without our full knowledge? It created much publicity and our news story and Editorial was republished and…
