Cayman Net News Online: Issue No. 570 Tuesday, 13 January 2004

Issue No. 570 Tuesday, 13 January 2004

PPM Chair snubbed

Citing political reasons, the Leader of Government Business Hon McKeeva Bush asked Chairman of the Opposition People's Progressive Movement Anton Duckworth to leave a meeting of the Private Sector Consultative Committee last Tuesday as a condition for Mr Bush chairing the meeting. Mr Duckworth was at the meeting as a representative of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners... read more...

CBA President Stepping Down

Caymanian Bar Association (CBA) president Bryan Hunter formally announced at the opening of Grand Court last week that he will step down from the position during the organisation's Annual General Meeting on 22 January after serving in that capacity for the past two-and-a-half years.
"I feel that I have put in my time and made my contribution," said Mr Hunter in a telephone interview afterwards... read more...

Police probing theft on West Bay Road

An undisclosed sum of money was stolen from TCBY on West Bay Road last Wednesday afternoon... read more...

Tanya Streeter appears on National Geographic

National Geographic On Assignment, hosted by Laura Greene, featured a half-hour special on Cayman freediver Tanya Streeter on Monday, 12 January. Tanya, Laura and the crew spent three days together in Austin, Texas in December catching up on life after Tanya's most recent world record. Tanya was filmed in the gym and pool showing what her training was like in preparation for the record dive... read more...

Chairman of Parmalat's Cayman subsidiary turns himself in to Italian authorities

Giovanni Bonici, wanted by police in connection with his actions as the former chairman of Bonlat Financing Corporation, Parmalat's subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, returned to Italy from Venezuela last week. Bonlat had a central role in the multibillion-dollar fraud scandal at the Italian food and dairy giant. Bonici had been named with seven other people in a Dec. 31 arrest warrant issued by Parma prosecutors... read more...

Person of the Day - Lincoln Harris

Originally from St Peters, Barbados, Lincoln Harris has been all over the world. "I've been to the Philippines, Japan, Honolulu and England," he says. Now Lincoln has settled in The Cayman Islands, and has been married for two years to his wife, Janet, and likes living in the Cayman Islands, "The people here should be thankful that the crime rate is so low," he says... read more...