News about the Cayman Islands in the Foreign Press

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Cayman teacher complained about racist slur

LONDON, England – According to The Mirror, Britain’s Independent Television was warned by Ian Mawson, a teacher then living in the Cayman Islands, about sports commentator Ron Atkinson’s racist comments 14 years ago yet did nothing

Enron’s Cayman subsidiaries

SAN FRANCISCO, USA – The Pacific News Service reports that Enron cheated investors by using 692 subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands to pretend that money it borrowed was money it earned. Enron had no office in Cayman, but Box 1350 there received mail for 500 affiliates.

Miss Cayman too Jamaican for some

KINGSTON, Jamaica – According to the Gleaner, there has been controversy regarding Jamaican born Stacey-Ann Kelly’s eligibility for the Miss Cayman title. “The bulk of the controversy,” says Kelly “is not that I am Jamaican, but that I lived in Jamaica for three years.”

Cayman music in Arizona

PHOENIX, USA – According to the Arizona Republic, six bands, including Mango Mango, a three-piece band with ties to the Cayman Islands that cranks out a Caribbean beat on the steel pan and keyboards, will appear in the Spring Concerts in the Parks.

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