Four killed in crash of small plane in Colorado
SILVERTON, Colo. (AP) — All four people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed in the southwest Colorado mountains, authorities said Sunday. The single-engine plane was flying from Durango to Aspen when it crashed Saturday afternoon. Local officials…
Guard fights off armed thief
A security guard refused to hand over a cash bag to an armed thief who escaped empty handed. The guard was leaving Fosters Food Fair in Countryside Shopping Centre, Savannah, around 7.30pm Friday. A man approached with what appeared to…
New winner for Cayman Marathon
Justin Grunewald from Merrifield, Virginia came first in the Intertrust Cayman Islands Marathon, with a time of two hours, 36 minutes and 23.9 seconds, preventing fellow Virginian, Steve Speirs who won two years running, from completing his hat-trick. Mr Speirs…
Lobster tag hops Atlantic
COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — A tag from a lobster pot that was swept off the New England sea floor two decades ago during what came to be known as “The Perfect Storm” has washed up 3,000 miles away in Ireland….
Bag the plastic and become green
Following the ground-breaking success of last year’s plastic bag reduction campaign, Cayman BECOME is now embarking on another round of campaigning to further reduce the use of plastic bags on the Islands. Last year’s drive saw Foster’s, Hurley’s and Kirk…
The dangers of cheap dive watches
Why would anyone buy a cheap dive watch? Do they have a death wish? Hopefully they mean they want an inexpensive watch that meets the demands of scuba diving. The word cheap brings to mind characteristics of not just inexpensive,…
iThought
Do not be jealous of the wife of your bosom, and do not teach her an evil lesson to your own hurt. Ecclesiasticus or Sirach. 9:1
Fosters remove all shark products
Fosters Food fair has removed all shark products from its shelves which has been hailed a major boost to the marine environment. Trading in shark products damages shark populations but now a growing number of countries in the Caribbean are…
Message in a bottle
BROCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A 10-year-old upstate New York boy’s message in a bottle dropped in the Atlantic as part of a school project has been retrieved across the ocean in the Azores. Curtis Kipple of Adams Basin, west of…
Just about memories and me
I am the last of NINE children (four sons and five daughters). Being the baby of the family I was very special, inasmuch as I was looked after, cared for and loved so much, not only by my parents but…
