SOY kicks off football extravaganza
Once again, the Save Our Youth Foundation (SOY) is holding a Football Extravaganza/Family Fun Day, set for Saturday, 18 February, to encourage young people to make positive choices while enjoying a day of sports and family-friendly activities. The all-day series…
Suarez apologises for snubbing Evra handshake
LONDON (AP) — Luis Suarez apologised Sunday for refusing to shake hands with Patrice Evra while Liverpool criticized its player for the first time in this protracted racism dispute that has tarnished the reputation of one of England’s storied clubs….
Highway traffic problems
We really needed another highway now nobody will deny that And a well-built beautiful highway is exactly what we got. They call it the Harquail By-Pass, a most appropriate name. From almost into West Bay itself where it joins the…
The Editor Speaks: A love blog day
It is St Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. On this day we think strongly of our partner, wife, husband, lover, mother, father and even our pets. Love on this day is often an interpersonal attraction, desire, romance…
More details of CEC’s “super uni”
More details about Cayman Enterprise City’s “super university”, set to offer education and human resource development for as many as 500 students, including scholarship-funded Caymanians, have emerged. The school will be among the six “industries” in the Special Economic Zone…
UN consultant shot dead in Cairo
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian woman who worked for the United Nations as a freelance consultant was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood on Sunday, security officials said. It was not immediately clear whether…
Investigators seek answers to Houston’s death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston as the music industry’s biggest names gathered for a Grammy Awards show that felt as much like a memorial as a celebration. Coroner’s officials say they…
Elvis sets red dress gala aflame
It was the 1950’s and 1960’s all over again at the Cayman Heart Fund’s Red Dress Gala. With plenty of ladies looking gorgeous in their red dresses, the Marriott Ballroom looked like one big Valentine’s rose. Sue Rajah, the Heart…
Radio ‘godfather’
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Wilmot Perkins, a veteran Jamaican journalist considered the island’s “godfather of talk radio,” has died. He was 80. Perkins died Friday at his home after a brief illness, according to statements from his former employers. The…