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CINICO renews contract with St Lukes
The Cayman Islands National Insurance Company has renewed its agreement with Saint Luke’s Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, to provide specialty heart care to patients in Cayman.
On Monday (3), St. Luke’s Medical Director Mikhail Kosiborod, along with chief physician executive Leonardo Lozado and vice president of networking operations Robert Bonney joined CINICO’s CEO Lonny Tibbetts to sign the one-year renewal contract at the CINICO office.
As part of the agreement between CINICO and St. Luke’s, visiting cardiologists provide specialty care at the Heart Health Centre on West Bay Road, while some patients from Cayman also travel to St. Luke’s for cardiovascular care.
Board-certified cardiologists travel to Grand Cayman several times each month to provide cardiovascular evaluation, diagnostic and follow-up care at the Heart Health Centre.
HRC cites limited powers to investigate systematic abuse claims
The Cayman Islands Human Right’s Commission (HRC) has cited its inability to obtain information and a limited power to investigate claims of systemic abuses for determining “with accuracy” whether or not three teenage prisoners had been “victimized”.
The prisoners had made the complaint after a strip search had been made in December 2010 at the Fairbanks women’s prison.
The commission did point out that at the time, there were no written procedures for strip searches and it had taken more than two years – until Nov. 19, 2013 – for them to receive a copy of the final prison strip-search policy, following a 2011 request.
In the HRC report it said a significant number of recommendations, concerns and questions raised by them in September 2011 had not been addressed.
New tented areas for departing passengers at airport
To accommodate large numbers of departing passengers on weekends and busy travel days, the Cayman Islands Airports Authority has erected new, tented areas at the Owen Roberts International Airport.
Upon arriving at the security screening checkpoint after check-in, passengers whose flights are scheduled to depart within 90 minutes are given access to the departure lounge, while other passengers are advised of the availability of a tented area on the second floor of the airport terminal, beside the Hungry Horse restaurant.
To alleviate overcrowding in the departure hall, when there are several flights departing within a short period of time, some passengers are processed and guided to a tented pre-boarding area outside Gates 3, 4 and 5, to await boarding.
The new measure came into effect Feb. 1 after recent overcrowding at the airport departure hall forced the airport authority to take measures to facilitate passengers.
Roman Abramovich and Caribbean Football Union plan tournament on Saint-Barthélemy
From nonfifafootball.blogspot.com
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is working with the Caribbean Football Union in order to fund an international tournament on Saint-Barthélemy in June.
Fellow non-FIFA teams Sint Maarten and neighbouring Saint-Martin have expressed interest in playing along with a handful of FIFA members with the event set to be coordinated by the Caribbean Football Union.
Abramovich has property on the picturesque French overseas collectivity and after meeting the local government and football association agreed to pay for a tournament to take place during the first week of June.
The world’s 50th richest man has already financed the building of a stadium and resort for guest teams in Saint-Jean, in the north of the island, which allowed the Saint-Barthélemy national team play a first-ever home game in 2012 against Guadeloupe.
Abramovich paid for a similar tournament for clubs last year and also helps provide coaches to develop football on island, which is home to just over 9,000 people. New non-FIFA organisation ConIFA have expressed plans to provide online coverage, in tandem with the CFU, of the tournament.
For more: http://nonfifafootball.blogspot.com/2014/02/roman-abramovich-and-caribbean-football.html
Big changes in the Internet domain names are coming
From WMFD.com
It’s pretty automatic when we go online and type a web address into our browser. We usually type in dot-com, right?
Well, get ready, big changes are coming this week that may affect what we type to get to some websites. Sunlen Serfaty explains. The easiest way to think about this is, think about the Internet as a piece of land. Well now there’s a lot of new, vast, undiscovered land that has just been uncovered, and the bidding process is just starting.
It’s being called the Internet Land Rush. And the floodgates are about to open. Right now, there are only 22 top domain names – think dot-com, dot-org and dot-net. Those last parts of the domain names control about 111-million Internet addresses.
Well, it may be odd to hear but the Internet is running out of space. Many names are already taken and businesses have to get clever to find a unique web site name that suits them. Well, enter in some new domain space up for grabs. More than 1,000 new domain names will come into existence today. Anyone, anywhere will be able to purchase, for a high price, and create their own domain name. The variety is key here too. New domains will be available in dozens of new languages. This is not only a big change for Internet users, but it also has the potential to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.
For more: http://www.northcentralohio.com/national-news/single.asp?story=58222
FBI investigating child’s death on a cruise ship
From Business Insider
FBI investigates death of 1 child, hospitalization of another after both pulled from ship pool
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The FBI is investigating the death of one child and the hospitalization of another after they were pulled from a swimming pool aboard a cruise ship off the North Carolina coast.
Bureau spokesman David Couvertier said Wednesday that officials from the Tampa division met the Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship when it docked in Port Canaveral, Fla., on Tuesday. Couvertier said the FBI became involved because the Norwegian Cruise Line ship was in international waters about 40 miles off Cape Lookout, N.C., when the two boys were found Monday. He also said it was because the 4-year-old boy who died was a U.S. citizen.
A 6-year-old boy was hospitalized at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Hospital spokeswoman Chris Mackey said his family didn’t want his condition made public.
HBO exhibits a retrospective and behind the scenes of the fourth season of Game of Thrones
The special feature “Game of Thrones Ice and Fire: A Foreshadowing” will premiere on February 9th, simultaneously with the United Stated
Miami, FL, February 5, 2014 – HBO Latin America announced the presentation of a 15-minute special feature, Game of Thrones Ice and Fire: A Foreshadowing, on February 9th in the Caribbean. The program, which will air before True Detective, shows viewers a retrospective of the last three seasons of the series, as well as a preview of the fourth one.
Additionally, Game of Thrones Ice and Fire: A Foreshadowing will include behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast, who also answered questions from fans. The new 10-episode season of Game of Thrones will premiere on April 6th in the Caribbean, simultaneously with the United States.
This HBO original production, winner of an Emmy® and Golden Globe®, is based on the story on the famous books by George R.R. Martin, “A Song of Ice and Fire”. It tells the story of the epic and deadly struggle for power among several families in the seven kingdoms of Westeros.
UWI appoints Golding as an Honorary Distinguished Fellow
From Caribbean360
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thursday February 6, 2014, CMC – The University of the West Indies (UWI) Wednesday announced the appointment of former Jamaican prime minister Bruce Golding as an Honorary Distinguished Fellow.
UWI has in the past also named former prime ministers Michael Manley and Edward Seaga to similar positions.
It said the five-year non-salaried appointment came into effect on February 1 and would provide Golding, 67, the island’s eight head of government who stepped down in October 2011, an opportunity to undertake empirical research and offer recommendations with emphasis on public administration and economic development.
The region’s premier university with campuses in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, said the appointment would also allow Golding, the former leader of the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), to develop vital linkages between the public and private sectors with a view to identifying and promoting practical areas for dynamic collaboration.
UWI said that an un-named group of corporate citizens had committed to underwrite expenses associated with Golding’s work.
Golding’s personal papers including speeches and presentations are also to be archived at The UWI.
For more on this story go to: http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/jamaica_news/1106457.html?utm_source=Caribbean360+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b98e6aba9f-Vol_9_Issue_026_News2_6_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_350247989a-b98e6aba9f-39393477#ixzz2sZPM1AgB
