The Editor Speaks: Ezzard and Arden are a ‘force’ to be reckoned with
MLA’s Ezzard Miller and Arden Mclean may only represent the two smallest districts, North Side and East End respectively, but nearly every day we hear their voices heard even more than that of Premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush and absolutely obliterating…
New hurdle in British bid to deport cleric
(AP) — Radical Islamist Abu Qatada has appealed to Europe’s human rights court to challenge Britain’s move to deport him to Jordan, a court spokeswoman said Wednesday. The move raised another potential hurdle to long-standing efforts to expel the terror-linked…
Leighton Rankine denied bail
35 year old Leighton Griffin Rankine was denied bail by Justice Charles Quin last week after the crown told the court that the charges were too serious and the evidence against him too great. Rankine has been charged with two…
Norway gunman wants freedom or death for massacre
(AP) — The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country’s prison terms “pathetic” and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to…
Congrats to DVITP Graduates
Ten graduates recently received certificates upon completing the Domestic Violence Intervention Training Programme (DVITP). Drawn from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS), Department of Community Rehabilitation, Priestley’s Attorneys-At-Law, the Health Services Association (HSA) and several Seventh Day Adventist Churches,…
Usain Bolt says London 2012 can make him a “living legend”
Jamaican Bolt, 25, is the reigning Olympic champion and world-record holder over both distances, with times of 9.58secs and 19.19secs. “People are looking forward to me running 9.4, 19 seconds, anything that’s amazing,” Bolt told the UK media recently. “So…
Jamaican lottery scams spread despite US crackdown
(AP) — The 88-year-old retired Coast Guard officer hadn’t been outside the U.S. in decades. Yet phone calls started pouring in from Jamaica, dangling the prospects of huge winnings from an international lottery that he had won. There was a…
How often do you judge yourself?
How often do you hear a parental voice in your head that says things like, “You’ve got to lose weight”; “You should get up earlier every morning and exercise”; “Today I should get caught up on the bills”; “I’ve got…
Miller wants proof
I hear our Independent member for North Side, Ezzard Miller, is after Mr. Dart again calling on him to produce the invoice his Group received from government for the $5 million it paid recently before the ForCayman Alliance Investment deal…
Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum
(AP) — A kindergartner who threw a tantrum at her small-town Georgia school was taken away in handcuffs, her arms behind her back, in an episode that is firing up the debate over whether teachers and police around the country…
