School children get surprise visit
The police helicopter crew surprised students from Savannah Primary School on Friday morning when the helicopter made an unannounced visit to the Bodden Town Civic Centre. Students from the school were at the Centre to meet local police officers and…
Floodwaters seep into outer Bangkok as canals open
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s prime minister urged Bangkok residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country’s worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital’s outer districts. The government has opened…
Olympus lose $687m in rouge CI account
Olympus has defended paying $687m to financial advisers but refused to comment on its former CEO’s claims that the cash was channelled to ‘unknown parties in the Cayman Islands’. Asked why Olympus paid such a high fee in relation to…
Irish dissident convicted in MI5 weapons sting
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A Lithuanian judge found an Irish man guilty Friday of trying to buy weapons and explosives in a six-year sting orchestrated by Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 — a case that drew attention to a hardcore…
Sagicor Life adopts George Town Primary School
Caribbean life insurance company, Sagicor, have displayed some wise judgment and vision by becoming part of a new programme to support students across Grand Cayman starting with George Town Primary. Approximately 300 students of the George Town Primary School will…
Miss Teen becomes Leo Club member
The Leo Club of Grand Cayman on Wednesday inducted three new members, foremost among them the recently crowned Miss Teen Cayman Brooke Parchment. West Bay’s Miss Parchment, 15, crowned on 27 August at the Lions Centre at the 33rd annual…
BUSH IN LOAN FIGHT: Cohen loan scrutinised by LA unit
The Auditor General will appear this morning before the watchdog Public Accounts Committee, hearing from Premier McKeeva Bush, United Democratic Party Treasurer Peter Young and Chairman of the Central Tenders Committee Ronnie Dunn. The five-member committee, meeting in public session…
Violent protesters attack peaceful ones in Athens
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Violent rioters attacked peaceful demonstrators with firebombs and stones Thursday as tens of thousands turned out in Athens to decry unpopular new austerity measures demanded by creditors to keep Greece afloat. As the second day of…
Gadhafi dead: With warped vision, Gadhafi maddened Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — During nearly 42 years in power in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi was one of the world’s most eccentric dictators, so mercurial that he was both condemned and courted by the West, while he brutally warped his country…
Australians cheer Queen Elizabeth during boat trip
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Thousands of people cheered and waved from the banks of the Australian capital’s central lake as Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, took a motor boat to a flower show Thursday in their first…
