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…
Public Meetings Highlight Cayman-UK Relations
To help develop a new strategy, public consultation is ongoing about the Cayman Islands’ relationship with the UK. The UK will use the input to prepare a new White Paper for all the Overseas Territories in 2012. To provide information…
Disappearing
Where is the Island that once we knew – and the Caymanian people, the backbone of this place? They lived life happily, peacefully. Theirs was a hard life, but always, they had time to smile, reach out to each other,…
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…
The Silent Killer
The International Medical Group is a multi-disciplinary medical practice that offers professional and personalised care. Brandi Propas is the newest addition to The International Medical Group. She is a registered dietician and her services are a welcome complement to the…
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…
The Editor Speaks: Healing and Sirach
Doctors, hospitals, Hospice, and rehabilitation centres have been in the news lately. At some time in our lives we have to go to a doctor or hospital to be healed. The same way an alcoholic and/or drug user will be…
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…
Tyson takes on Caribbean
Local television host Catherine Tyson will be hitting screens all around the Caribbean from 7th November. Caribvision, channel 38 on WestStar, will be airing Catherine’s talk-variety show, ‘Lighten Up’, five times a week from Anguilla to the Virgin Islands. ‘Lighten…
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…