Issue No. 577 Thursday, 22 January 2004
Bill Withdrawn
The Minister for Education, Human Resources and Culture, Hon Roy Bodden, has announced that the draft Employment Bill is to be withdrawn and the new "significantly amended" bill will be announced at the next sitting of the Legislative Assembly in February...
read
more...
Holiday Inn Resort Changes Its Name
The 231-room Holiday Inn Resort on West Bay Road changed its name last week to the Courtyard Marriott, although management at the hotel say that it has not been sold, and that staff and guests will not be affected...
read
more...
Cayman to host Caribbean region's Special Olympics training workshop
 The Cayman Islands has been chosen by Special Olympics International and Special Olympics Caribbean to host the 2004 Caribbean Region's Healthy Athletes Train-the-Trainer Workshop For Health Care Providers, 23 and 24
January.. read more...
Chamber of Commerce renews its support of the Junior Achievement programme
 The Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce announced on Monday, 19 January, its renewed partnership with the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Central to provide financial assistance for the Junior Achievement (JA) programme for the fifth consecutive year... read
more...
Former director arrested in Parmalat scandal, accounting firms named in probe
 The investigation into food giant Parmalat widened this week, as a former director was arrested and two of the bankrupt company's former audit firms face an official inquiry.
Milan magistrates launched formal investigations into Deloitte & Touche's Italian branch and the former Italian arm of Grant Thornton. Four top executives from the two companies were already under investigation as
individuals... read more...
Person of the Day
- Craig Fulton
 After hearing from friends about the fine weather and great lifestyle that Cayman had to offer, it didn't take Craig Fulton long to trade in the "stinky overcrowded tubes of London" for Seven Mile Beach.
Craig has been in Cayman for three years and, having just been promoted to Assistant Legal Counsel at Fortis Fund Services, has no plans to move in the near future... read
more...
OTHER NEWS
EDITORIAL
SPORTS
| 
