News about the Cayman Islands in the Foreign Press

Thursday,  September 1, 2005

Florida coatings company goes international in Grand Cayman

PALM COAST, USA: Daytona Beach News-Journal, August 30, 2005 – Dur-A-Shield International Inc. and Vinyl ReNu, Florida firms that make and market products to restore and protect exterior surfaces, have added a dealer in Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands.

The dealer is David Conolly of Wave Construction Co. Ltd., a home builder. A presence in the Cayman Islands is part of Dur-A-Shield’s strategic plan to expand operations to several countries, company officials said in a news release.

Dur-A-Shield and Vinyl ReNu have more than 60 dealers in 32 states.

Grand Cayman tops list of the 50 most storm-prone cities

REDMOND, USA: MSN Money, August 30, 2005 – The website Hurricane City used hurricane tracking charts from 1871 onward to rank the relative frequency of storms in the Atlantic Basin.

This list counts both tropical storms and hurricanes that came within 60 miles of the city. By that measure, for example, Grand Cayman is affected by some kind of tropical weather every 2.2 years. That doesn’t mean that the city was directly hit, only that it had a brush with tropical weather. Hurricane City used direct hits as a tiebreaker.

While Grand Cayman sees the most frequent visits from tropical storms and hurricanes, the city with the most direct hits since 1871 is Florida City, Fla., directly south of Miami. It had been hit directly 21 times by the end of the 2004 season, when Hurricane City recalculated its numbers. And it took another direct hit from Hurricane Katrina just last week.

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