Some tips on how Cayman should do business with the Chinese
With the China Harbour Engineering Company deal still on the table and awaiting the report from KPMG (one of the big four auditors) I thought I would share with you an article I read that contained comments from Janet Carmosky,…
Chelsea beat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout
(AP) Didier Drogba scored the decisive penalty in the shootout as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich to win the Champions League final after a 1-1 draw on Saturday. The unlikely storyline of an English team beating a German team on penalties in…
Commercial rocket will fly to the space station
(AP) — For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America’s space programme. If…
SDN makes cloud offshoring more attractive
Calligo may not be the first to take its cloud operations offshore, but in the age of software-defined networking (SDN), it could be the start of something bigger. “It’s unclear if a small, niche player that offers the benefits having…
Facebook set to price initial public offering
(AP) — Facebook’s initial public offering is shaping up to be one of the largest in history. It’s expected to be a big payoff for a company that started out eight years ago with no way to make money. Facebook…
Michigan boy finds finger piece in Arby’s sandwich
(AP) — A Michigan teen finishing off an Arby’s roast beef sandwich chomped down on something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out. Turns out it tasted like finger. The fleshy, severed pad of an unfortunate employee’s…
The Regional Risk Reduction Initiative: “Sharing knowledge and results toward improved Risk Resilience”
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), through the Regional Risk Reduction Initiative (R3I) project, funded by the European Union, will host a Knowledge Sharing Event on Thursday, 24 May 2012…
Ilmington Primary School pupils have their Olympics song played in Cayman Islands
PRIMARY school children who put their quiet Warwickshire village on the map by releasing a song are now having their single played on national radio – in the Cayman Islands. Pupils at Ilmington Primary School recorded a song inspired by…
New appointment forthcoming
After having recently made the first new appointments to any of the constitutionally created Commissions since the implementation of the 2009 Constitution Order, His Excellency the Governor Duncan Taylor, CBE, is now considering candidates for an appointment to the Judicial…
