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Doctors Hospital Responds Swiftly to Cybersecurity IncidentApril 28, 2025No Patient, 3rd Party, or Service Provider Data Compromised George Town, Cayman Islands – 28, April 2025 Doctors Hospital confirms that we recently identified a ransomware attack targeting our […]- CUC responds to OfReg announcement that Renewable Energy has been declinedApril 27, 2025April 26, 2025Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd. (“CUC” or “the Company”) has received the final determinationfrom the Utility Competition and Regulation Office (“OfReg” or “the Regulator”) concerning […]
- UPDATE: Cayman Woman Arrested in Relation to Serious Collision Involving CyclistApril 27, 2025From RCIPS UPDATE (26 April): This evening, 26 April, officers arrested a woman, age 20 of West Bay, for a number of driving offenses in relation to the serious collision involving a male cyclist […]
- Pope Francis laid to rest after funeral brings together politicians, royalty and 400,000 mournersApril 26, 2025From BBC Summary Pope Francis has been buried at Santa Maria Maggiore basilica following his funeral in the Vatican Pope Francis “touched minds and hearts” and wanted to “build […]
- Cayman: URCO Issues Final Determination on CUC’s Certificate of Need SubmissionApril 25, 2025From OfReg The document outlines key information pertaining to URCO’s Final Determination on CUC’s Certificate of Need […]
10th Annual International Powerlifting Championships in Cayman Islands commence Wed (25)
The 10th Annual International Powerlifting Federation / North American Regional Powerlifting Championships is set to power off today at the Westin Hotel, George Town, Grand Cayman Islands with Guyana’s hopes of medaling pinned on Anis Ade-Thomas, the reigning Under-23 Caribbean…
Greek Olympian Papachristou expelled for ‘racist tweet’
Greek triple jumper Voula Papachristou has been expelled from her country’s Olympic team over comments she posted on Twitter which were deemed racist. Papachristou was due to compete in the London 2012 Games, which officially start this Friday. But the…
Nine Olympic Athletes Banned for Doping Offenses
A total of nine athletes, including Olympic bronze medalist Nataliya Tobias, have tested positive for “sophisticated doping” offenses, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has confirmed. Six of those athletes were caught using a new “biological passport” method, which…
Iraq suffers deadliest day of 2012 as 103 are killed
The number of dead in a wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday has risen to 103, authorities said Tuesday, making it the deadliest day in the country this year, according to a CNN count. The attacks wounded 267 people,…
The Dollars and Sense of Tax Havens: The Necessity of the Offshore Economy
by Andrew Barr The recent controversies over the lack of transparency of Mitt Romney’s 2012 tax returns and the existence of several offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland raise important questions on the role tax havens play in…
Court expert faces arrest after fleeing Malta, contaminates evidence
The Magistrates’ Court was told today how a British national, who was appointed as an expert to retrieve and examine 300 security tapes from the Casinò di Venezia in Birgu, had decided to leave the island, abandoning the evidence and…
Betting terminals: dangerously addictive? A 20second game makes huge profits
Two related stories by Alice Ross appeared on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) about the surge in turbo-charged roulette wheels that have transformed UK’s betting industry. We publish both of them (one is an infographic) as a warning in…
Frequent visitor to Cayman, Blackbeard to perform in Machipongo
Frequent visitor to Cayman, Blackbeard to perform in Machipongo On Saturday, Aug. 4, from 10-11 a.m. Blackbeard the Pirate will perform at the Barrier Islands Center. Actor Ben Cherry’s love of the sea and the lore that surrounds it drew…
Altera and IRS fight involving employee stock-based compensation and a unit in Cayman Islands
Altera Corp and the Internal Revenue Service are battling in U.S. Tax Court over the semiconductor maker’s handling of employee stock-based compensation and a unit in the low-tax Cayman Islands. The dispute centers on “transfer pricing,” or how multinational companies…
The Editor Speaks:The premier’s budget statement
Whilst our lead story headline states that Premier Hon. McKeeva Bush is bringing in taxation he will argue that it is no such thing. However, whatever you call something, it doesn’t change what it is. A rose is a flower…
