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  • Public Consultation Begins on Draft Terms of Reference for Environmental Impact Assessments on Cayman’s Airport Projects
    Community Invited to Share Feedback on Key Airport Development Projects Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (16 May 2025) The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) invites the public to participate in […]
  • Cayman: RCIPS Releases 2024 Crime and Traffic Statistics Report, 14 May
    2024 RCIPS Crime and Statistics Report Press Conference Today, Wednesday 14 May, the RCIPS released its 2024 Crime and Traffic Statistics Report, with a press conference held at RCIPS HQ. Members of […]
  • CI Government Q1 2025 Financial Report Gazetted
    Grand Cayman, 14 May 2025 – The Cayman Islands Government’s Quarterly Financial Report for the Three-Month Period Ended 31 March 2025was published in the Cayman Islands Gazette on Monday, 12 May 2025 […]
  • Cayman: Daytime Mosquito Control Flights Underway
    Over the next two weeks, residents may notice the MRCU aircraft flying at low altitude during the day as part of this essential mosquito control activity. GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands (14 May 2025) […]
  • Cayman Police Recover Loaded Firearm & Drugs During Search
    From RCIPS Shortly after 2:50PM on Friday, 9 May, officers conducted an operation in George Town, where two men, ages 22 of West Bay, and 29 of George Town, were arrested outside of a restaurant on […]

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Euro misery for Manchester

The Manchester United manager says he is “disappointed” with his team’s 2-1 defeat in Switzerland against Basel which will see the side demoted to the Europa League. United finished third in Group C after they crashed out to FC Basel…

DART STUDY POINTLESS

 Campaigners reject report as nonsense West Bay activists have rejected as nonsense a Dart-funded report on the benefits of closing the road in front of Public Beach and rebuilding the Marriott Hotel. The report, released on Wednesday by accounting giant Deloitte &…

Dead OAP was keep-fit enthusiast, says brother

A pensioner whose body was found floating near the Sandbar was a keep-fit enthusiast and marathon runner, his brother has revealed. Samir Rizk, 71, from the US, was discovered near Stingray City after he got into difficulties during a snorkelling…

Just about memories and me: Part 4

Sometimes we borrowed one of Merren’s trucks to take us to the beach.  Our roads were only dust tracks with holes filled with a little marl.  Men would bring the marl in a wheelbarrow and use a shovel to fill…

American sentenced to prison for Thai royal insult

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand sentenced a U.S. citizen to two and a half years in prison Thursday for defaming the country’s royal family by translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of the king and posting them…

Sandusky posts bail in latest sex abuse charges

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky posted bail yesterday after spending a night in jail following a new round of sex-abuse charges filed against him. Sandusky secured his release using $200,000 in real estate holdings…

Baldwin apologises to passengers, not airline

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin issued an apology Wednesday to fellow passengers on an American Airlines flight that was delayed by his refusal to stop playing a cellphone game — but stopped short of apologising to the airline or…

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Do not despise anyone in old age; after all, some of us too are growing old. Ecclesiasticus 8:6

Church confirms pope to visit Cuba in spring

HAVANA (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI will visit Communist-run Cuba this spring, a senior Roman Catholic Church official said Thursday, the first trip by a pontiff since John Paul II’s historic tour in 1998. The exact date of the trip,…

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The Editor speaks: Two out of three

In my Editorial on Wednesday (7) I was in an apologetic mood under the banner “I Could Have Been Mistaken”. I went to great pains to show the reasons why Cayman’s Legal Department and Justice Quin allowed the trial of…