News about the Cayman Islands in the Foreign Press

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Cayman vacation went nowhere

CHARLOTTE, USA – According to the Charlotte Observer, Jerry and Rowena Hebert were grounded at the check-in counter and never saw the beaches at Grand Cayman for their anniversary last month because online vacation booker Travelocity failed to inform them that they also needed to bring their birth certificates as well as their driver’s licences.

Cayman-owned yacht burns in Palm Beach

PALM BEACH, USA – The Palm Beach Daily News reports that the 136-foot Janie II, valued at $10.9 million, built in 1991 for Juan Carlos, King of Spain, and owned by JAWBAC Shipping Ltd, a private corporation in the Cayman Islands owned by the family of Tennessee entrepreneur W Allan Jones, caught fire and sank last week.

Geologist may have moved from Cayman

TORONTO, Canada – According to the Calgary Sun, former Bre-X geologist John Felderhof, whose trial in the gold-mining fraud that cost investors billions of dollars is due to resume in December, may have moved from the Cayman Islands where he had been living.

Stashing surplus loot in the Cayman Islands

NEW ZEALAND – Yellow Times columnist Lance Broughton speculates that a new dictator will emerge in Iraq, with a strong military and secret police to protect him while he stashes surplus loot in the Cayman Islands.

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