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Monday, December 12, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Even though the chances of a bird flu outbreak in
the Cayman Islands are currently considered to be remote, an inter-departmental
committee is developing a preparedness plan to respond...
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Friday, December 9, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: A case of dengue fever has been confirmed in Grand Cayman, and the Public Health Department, in conjunction with the Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) and the Department of Environmental Health (DEH), is currently closely monitoring the situation in the Cayman Islands, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kiran
Kumar said...
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Thursday, December 8, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Department of Immigration has announced
an amnesty from prosecution for certain immigration offences. The amnesty
becomes effective Friday, 9 December, and will remain in effect until Friday, 23
December 2005, inclusive. The terms of the amnesty are as follows...
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Cayman Islands delegation optimistic about EU relief aid
Thursday, December 8, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Talks on hurricane relief for the Cayman Islands between a Government delegation led by Minister Responsible for International Financial Services Policy Alden McLaughlin and the European Union are moving in a positive direction with the EU
confirming that the approval process is well advanced...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cricket in the Cayman Islands is set to be elevated to
another level based on the government’s support for the national team’s
involvement in a Caribbean competition next year. Seventeen regional
countries, including Cayman, have been invited to play in a special 20/20
tournament...
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Monday, December 5, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Amid a forecast programme of major spending on capital projects,
the Cayman Islands Government is projecting a $24.5 million operating surplus
for the next financial year that begins July 2006 and ends June 2007...
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Second Cayman Jazz Festival opens
Monday, December 5, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Caymanians, residents and non-resident visitors alike
were in for two more days of unique jazz experiences following the opening of the Cayman JazzFest
on the British dependency on Thursday night. Jazz aficionados were treated to an evening of virtuoso jazz performances...
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Friday, December 2, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: The impact of Hurricane Ivan is “working its way out” of
the Cayman economy, according to data emanating from the twin pillars of the
Islands’ economy – financial services and tourism – as well as the usual
economic indicators. The Financial Secretary expanded on economic
forecasts...
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Ambitious capital spending by Cayman Islands government
Friday, December 2, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands government intends to spend $235.6
million (US$282.7 million) in capital projects comprising mainly new schools,
new office buildings, and equipment for police by June 2009, the end of its
fourth fiscal year. The money will be raised partially by borrowing $182
million...
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Cayman Islands Monetary Authority marks 10,000th fund
registration
Friday, December 2, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: The recent issuing of a certificate of registration to The
Rutland Fund, a hedge fund authorised by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority,
was significant on at least two counts. The first is that The Rutland Fund
was the 10,000th fund to be approved by the Authority since the passage of the
Mutual Funds Law...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: According to new legislation recently enacted in
the Cayman Islands, an illegal gang comprises any formally associated group of
three or more people who carry out crime as one of their primary activities, or
have committed criminal offences in the past three years...
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Monday, November 28, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: According to a press release issued on
Friday, November 25, 2005, by the Jamaican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Foreign Trade, nationals of the Cayman Islands will require visas to enter
Jamaica, with effect from Thursday, 1st December 2005...
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Aircraft emergency in Grand Cayman
Monday, November 28, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Civil Aviation Authority has
reported that a Cayman Airways Boeing 732 aircraft with 86 persons on board
landed safely at the Owen Roberts Airport Sunday evening, after reporting that a
‘landing gear unsafe’ warning had alerted the crew to a possible problem....
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Lawsuits seek almost $1 billion for Parmalat's Cayman
companies
Monday, November 28, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Food Holdings Limited, Dairy Holdings Limited, and Parmalat Capital Finance Limited -- three Cayman Islands companies, presently in liquidation, that suffered substantial losses related to the collapse of Parmalat -- have sued Parmalat’s
principal banker and auditors...
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Friday, November 25, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Nine amendments to legislation in the Cayman
Islands, aimed at further curbing crime through a number of new measures ranging
from longer jail time to the right of police to request information from phone
companies, are now enforceable by law...
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Regional banks have unique assets, says Cayman's
Financial Secretary
Friday, November 25, 2005
GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: Opportunities for Caribbean indigenous banks to solidify
a place in the market can come through leverage of their unique assets, and
use of strong leadership to take advantage of these resources. This is
the view of Cayman Islands Financial Secretary Kenneth Jefferson...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Newly appointed
Commissioner of Police, Stuart Kernohan, speaking recently at a Royal Cayman
Islands Police Service (RCIPS) Community Meeting, said that it is not his
intention to target any particular nationality as his department carries out its
job in combating crime in the territory...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: Within 24 hours of landing for my first visit to Grand
Cayman in the Western Caribbean, the island nation’s young director of tourism
asked me what I thought of the Cayman Islands. What could I say after just
a few hours of sight-seeing and attending the morning session of the annual
tourism conference?...
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Monday, November 21, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The authorities
in the Cayman Islands are looking at the pros and cons of a witness-protection
mechanism involving the Overseas Territories, three of which are in the
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), as part of a wider programme
allowing for the sharing of resources...
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: This year, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve fall on
Saturdays, which means that the sale of alcohol and live music at public events
in the Cayman Islands will, according to local law, have to cease by midnight...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: A new era of openness and transparency in government was heralded in the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands on Friday morning, when the Leader of Government Business, Kurt Tibbetts, laid before the House the Freedom of Information Bill, 2005...
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Cayman Islands to tackle cruise-tourist volumes
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Government is taking active
steps to properly manage cruise ship scheduling and cruise-tourist volumes.
Among goals, a key aim is to minimise impact on residents, especially during the
busy Christmas shopping season...
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Monday, October 31, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Government is satisfied with the relations Cayman has in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),
thinks it is necessary, but does not intend to extend it any further...
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Cayman turtles in the eye of the hurricane
Monday, October 31, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Two Cayman Islands sea turtles recently survived Hurricane Wilma at sea when the devastating
storm passed over their winter feeding grounds in Mexico and the Florida Keys...
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Government is introducing a requirement for visitor visas for residents of four countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Jamaica. These countries will join some 112 other countries whose
nationals are presently subject to visa requirements...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Persons found with illegal guns in the Cayman
Islands will have to spend no less than 10 years behind bars before any
possibility of release, according to a soon to be implemented change to the
local Firearms Law...
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Friday, October 14, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Following the successful launch of
NetSpeak Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services in the Cayman
Islands in May 2005, Cable & Wireless (C&W) has now introduced UK local and
toll-free numbers for subscribers of this service. NetSpeak
customers are able to make unlimited international calls...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Financial Secretary, Kenneth Jefferson,
has presented a budget to the Legislative Assembly projecting Government
expenses at CI$376.9 million (US$452.3 million) and revenue at CI$380.2 million
(US$456.2 million) resulting in a CI$3.3 million (US$3.96 million) surplus...
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Freedom of Information Law for the Cayman Islands
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman islands Government will within the next few
months be proposing a law that allows members of the public access to official
records, Leader of Government Business Kurt Tibbetts has told the Legislative
Assembly. He said the ‘Access to Information Bill’ is being circulated for
comment...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2005
ALISO VIEJO, USA: Fluor Corporation announced Tuesday that its dispute with
the developer of the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman hotel in the Cayman Islands has
been resolved on a no-liability basis...
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Monday, October 3, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The 12th Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA)
Conference and Trade Show is now history and the over 1,200 delegates, while
recalling the memorable time spent on the "Mother Colony," are now training
their sights on what promises to be a great conference next year in the Cayman
Islands...
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Cayman Islands to assist St Kitts-Nevis in tourism development
Monday, October 3, 2005
 FRIGATE BAY, St. Kitts: In
a spirit of true Caribbean unity, the Cayman Islands - which is reported to have
the richest economy in the region - will be working closely with St. Kitts and
Nevis in an effort to assist the twin-island federation in further developing
its tourism industry. Minister Clifford, made this revelation during an interview
on Friday...
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Cayman Islands firearms law to be amended in an effort to combat violent crime
Monday, October 3, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cabinet of the Cayman Islands has embarked on
an aggressive programme of legislative reform with the aim of stemming the
recent increase in violent crime. The first in this planned package of
legislation, aimed at imposing stiffer penalties and to introduce new offences,
will be an amendment to the Firearms Law...
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Letter:
Congratulations on 'The Jamaican in Cayman'
Monday, October 3, 2005
I would like to congratulate you for the publication, "The Jamaican in the Cayman". Convey my congratulations to Mr. Desmond Seales
and his staff for their very professional work...
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
 FRIGATE
BAY, St. Kitts: As efforts are being made to make the Caribbean a more united
place, the Government of the Cayman Islands will be moving to strengthen
relations with the wider Caribbean Community (CARICOM). That's the word
from the country's Minister with responsibility for Tourism Charles Clifford...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
 FRIGATE BAY, St. Kitts: Cruise tourism in the Cayman Islands took a beating from Hurricane Ivan when the storm pounded Grand Cayman last year but, according to the Minister with responsibility for Tourism, Charles Clifford, following the launch of the FCCA Trade Show on Tuesday, "our people are resilient and we bounced fairly quickly."...
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Friday, September 16, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Bermuda police
are now in the United States talking with the parents of deceased Dimitri
Pappas about their son’s death. And this time the police are no longer
talking suicide but are, as they described it, discussing other theories.
Pappas, was discovered dead in Bermuda on 20 July 2005....
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New Commissioner of Police for the Cayman Islands
Friday, September 16, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Governor of the Cayman Islands, Mr Bruce Dinwiddy, has announced the appointment of Mr Stuart Kernohan
as the new Commissioner of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. The
Commissioner (designate) will take up his post, on a four year contract,
within the next two months...
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
has approved the application of the low cost carrier, Spirit Airlines for flight
services to Grand Cayman...
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Friday, August 26, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Increased concern is being expressed in the Cayman Islands over human trafficking, as
a number of Chinese nationals reportedly attempted to enter the country recently
using false Japanese passports on a vessel from Jamaica, according to the local
Immigration Department...
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Cayman Islands family troubled by Bermuda findings
Friday, August 26, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: It will probably be early next year before authorities in Bermuda present their final decision on how Dimitri
Pappas, a well-known Cayman Islands accountant, died in that country. But, for
now, the police are continuing to say that the 37-year-old killed himself...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: Immigrant female workers in the Cayman Islands are being
exploited and paid salaries well below subsistence levels. In particular beauty
salon workers and domestic helpers are being paid far less than the remuneration
figures their employers placed on their Work Permit documents...
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Monday, August 22, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN , Cayman Islands: Well-known Cayman Islands accountant and businessman, Dimitri
Pappas, was discovered dead in Bermuda on 20 July, found hanging in a clothes
closet in a hotel room. The Bermuda police are labelling his death a
suicide “based on the circumstances surrounding the finding of the body."...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Technical Director of cricket in the Cayman Islands Theo Cuffy
is ecstatic over the inclusion of the Cayman Islands in the 2005
Inter-Continental Cup. Cuffy was informed on Sunday that his team will be
replacing the USA due to the internal conflict that has plagued the sport there
recently...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2005
DUBAI, UAE (AFP): Political infighting behind the scenes over who controls United States cricket has led the International Cricket Council (ICC)
to withdraw the country's invitation to the Intercontinental Cup...
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Thursday, July 28, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands:
Cayman Net News has announced the launch of ‘The Jamaican in Cayman’
the first publication to be produced in the Cayman Islands dedicated to
reporting the news and issues facing the Jamaican community living in the
country, as well as providing a round-up of news from Jamaica...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP): The judge probing former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for financial fraud has sent the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, along with several other countries, new requests for information on Pinochet's
secret offshore bank accounts, judicial sources said Tuesday...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
 THESSALONIKI, Greece: Two Central American Championships (CAC) champions were on the top podium during the IAAF Grand Prix II "Thessaloniki 2005" meeting in Thessaloniki,
Greece on Sunday. Striking gold on a windy day at the meet were Trinidad and Tobago's Darrel Brown and Cayman Island’s Cydonie
Mothersill-Modibo...
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Monday, July 18, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The centre of Hurricane Emily passed by some 100
miles to the south of Grand Cayman during the early hours of Sunday morning,
bringing with it strong winds but no heavy rainfall...
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Monday, July 11, 2005
LONDON, England (AFP): Thousands of athletes and officials were assembled on a small Scottish isle Saturday for the spectacular opening ceremony of the week-long world island games. Among the islands competing in the biannual event are Bermuda and the Cayman Islands...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: A distinguished Guyanese writer and former editor-in-chief
of the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation, Edwin Ali, stopped in the Cayman Islands
recently. Mr Ali has over 40 years’ experience as a writer, first for newspapers
and later as the author of two books. His first one deals with 50 years of
Guyanese politics ...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2005
CASTRIES,
St. Lucia: Leader of Government Business of the Cayman Islands, Kurt Tibbetts,
says his country will not abandon CARICOM and is continuing to do the best it
can in recovering from the devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan in September
last year.
Tibbetts said that not much discussion has taken place in Cayman on the
CSME...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Police, paramedics and fire crews responded to a
full aircraft emergency at the Owen Roberts International Airport in Grand
Cayman on Sunday. Several roadblocks and other precautionary measures were put
into place by the police...
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Thursday, June 9, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands National Weather Service is keeping
its eye on Tropical Depression #1 of the 2005 storm season. The system is
currently located well to the west of the Cayman Islands and moving north.
The Cuban government has issued a tropical storm watch...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The British
Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Director for the Americas & Overseas
Territories, Robert Nicholas Culshaw MVO, arrives in Grand Cayman on Wednesday
for a three-day visit...
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Friday, June 3, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Key issues
facing the Cayman Islands have been the subject of discussion by the new
Leader of Government Business, Kurt Tibbetts, who has been engaged in a busy
round of familiarisation visits and meetings in all three islands since taking
office.
Mr. Tibbetts promised open communication...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Caribbean Net News website reached a milestone in
May, with pages on the site being accessed over 250,000 times. Publisher and Editor in Chief, Desmond
Seales, MBE said: “It is encouraging to know that so many people throughout
the world rely on our website to get up-to-date news about the Caribbean"...
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Friday, May 20, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: Despite Adrian having intensified to hurricane force as
it approaches El Salvador, forecasts still hold that the system will emerge
into the northwest Caribbean on Saturday morning as no more than a tropical
depression. This means that the Cayman Islands can expect rainfall and
some gusty winds...
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: A drug-related incident in Jamaica involving
individuals from the Cayman Islands has resulted in one confirmed arrest, with
investigations continuing into the possibility that another man connected to
the incident may have died...
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Monday, May 16, 2005
 GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: By all reports, last week's general elections in
the Cayman Islands, which were postponed from November 2004 due to Hurricane
Ivan, ran smoothly with no reports of violence or other problems at the 34
polling stations in six districts across the islands...
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The
opposition People's Progressive Movement (PPM), led by Kurt Tibbetts, won 9 of
the 15 seats in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly on Wednesday in
general elections that had been postponed for six months following the
widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan last September...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The voters of the Cayman Islands go to the polls
Wednesday in general elections that had been postponed for six months
following the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan last September...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cable & Wireless has announced its new residential broadband telephony Voice over IP (VoIP) service, branded as "NetSpeak,"
to its customers across all three of the Cayman Islands...
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Monday, April 18, 2005
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP): Finance and Economy Minister Han Duck-Soo on Friday defended a tax audit of foreign funds as part of a drive to enhance transparency in South Korea. Yonhap news agency said the tax authorities have already found some alleged irregularities by US-based investment fund, Carlyle Group.
It also did not pay taxes by registering its affiliate in the Cayman Islands..
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Tuesday, April 5, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Sub-contractors in the Cayman Islands are losing patience with the Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman developer, Condoco
Grand Cayman Ltd, as outstanding invoices mount up. Several local
contractors are reportedly complaining that since October the Ritz developer
has failed to pay their bills...
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Monday, April 4, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Another man
in the Cayman Islands has been murdered – succumbing to injuries received in a
shooting incident on Wednesday 30 March. His death as a result of violent
criminal activity thrusts the number of shooting incidents in which people
have been injured over the last 36 hours up to three...
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Shooting incident at Cayman Islands hospital
Friday, April 1, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: According to a press release by the Cayman
Islands Health Services Authority, at approximately 2:00 on Wednesday
afternoon there was an altercation between a group of individuals near the
hospital complex during which a firearm was brandished...
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Monday, March 28, 2005
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: 'We share existence in a disaster-prone region and Barbados remains firmly committed to lending support to the Cayman Islands and all other sister states rebuilding in the wake of recent natural disasters.'...
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Monday, March 21, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: According to Cayman Islands Government officials,
over the last 14-days an additional 1,700-2,000 gallons of used oil that
spilled into a canal near the George Town Landfill during the passage of
Hurricane Ivan last September, have been recovered by the Department of
Environmental Health...
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Friday, March 18, 2005
NEW YORK, USA (AFP): Citigroup said Thursday
it filed suit in a US court against bankrupt Italian food giant Parmalat,
alleging that Parmalat deceived bankers by, among other things, "inventing
assets in a fictitious Cayman Islands hedge fund," and by "forging documents
to make it appear that Parmalat had 4.9 billion dollars in a Bank of America
account."...
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more...
Cayman Islands stumble along the road to World Cup 2007
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The dream of reaching the 2007 World Cup finals has
become a nightmare for the Cayman Islands after they suffered consecutive
defeats to Fiji and Qatar in the division two qualifying tournament in Malaysia...
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Cayman Islands chase Cricket World Cup finals place
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
LONDON, England (AFP): The Cayman Islands
are one of eight teams that hope to take a step closer to the 2007 Cricket
World Cup finals when they take part in the ICC World Cup Qualifying Series in
Malaysia starting Monday...
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Cayman Islands press restricted from photographing Cubans
Saturday, February 12, 2005
CAYMAN BRAC, Cayman Islands: According to
Cayman Net News, media coverage of the arrival and departure of Cuban
migrants can be curtailed by government officers, says Cayman Islands Deputy
Chief Secretary Donovan Ebanks. New
guidelines state, “Press and members of the public should not have access to
the Cubans”...
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Media professionals enjoy Cayman Islands business lunch
Friday, February 4, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Information technology and all its ramifications for the press in today's environment were just some of the issues discussed
by the Cayman Islands Government Chief Information Officer, Patricia Ebanks, and
Caribbean Net News Senior Correspondent, Norman 'Gus' Thomas...
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Caribbean hedge funds attracting Japanese investment capital
Monday, January 31, 2005
TOKYO, Japan (AFP): Overseas hedge funds based in Caribbean tax havens have been
attracting investment capital from Japan where interest rates are next to nil, a
press report said Sunday...
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Cayman Islands government suppresses insurance report
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Some six weeks after announcing that the Cabinet had asked the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA)
to investigate claims of unfair insurer practices, the Cayman government has
indicated that the report will not now be made available to the public, on the
grounds that it would have a negative impact on the insurance industry...
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Caribbean islands seek new building code to
curb storm and flood damage
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Grand Cayman was badly hit by Hurricane Ivan but the island’s chief building officer, McCleary
Frederick, has revealed that since the Cayman government had implemented the
South Florida Building Code in 1987 the damage was less than if they had
carried on without one...
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Cayman Islands honours Guyana prison officers
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Members of the Guyana Prison Service were honoured with
awards for their performance during the year. The honourees included Roxanne
Winfield who was shot on February 23, 2002 and severely injured...
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Another earth tremor felt in Grand Cayman
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: Another earth tremor was felt in Grand Cayman at
approximately 1:18 pm on Monday. According to a preliminary report from the U.S.
Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Denver, Colorado,
the event was recorded as a light earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter Scale...
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Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Grand Cayman
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
GEORGE
TOWN, Cayman Islands: A strong earthquake was felt throughout Grand Cayman at
6:20 pm on Tuesday, December 14, 2004. According to a preliminary report from
the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Denver,
the epicenter of the magnitude 6.7 event was located some 21 miles south...
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Ivan costs Cayman Islands US$3.5 billion,
says report
Friday, December 10, 2004
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: A United Nations-related team brought to Cayman
at the end of November has reported that the total impact of the disaster on
the Cayman Islands by Hurricane Ivan was CI$2.8 billion (US$3.5 billion)...
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Cayman Islands curfew lifted
Friday, December 10, 2004
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Governor of the Cayman Islands, Mr Bruce Dinwiddy, has lifted the almost 3 month old curfew in Grand Cayman with effect from Thursday, 9 December.
The curfew began 14 September after a state of emergency was declared as a
result of massive devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan...
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