Issue No. 604 Tuesday, 2 March 2004
GT Cruise Port Still Held Up
The Royal Watler Terminal Cruise Tendering Facility is still experiencing delays in the commencement of both the marine works and the land construction of the project, for two very different reasons...
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Blazing A New Trail
 In Cayman, it is common to look at firefighting as a man's occupation, but one woman is changing that way of thinking. Domestic Fire Officer Tina Shepherd has set a precedent as the first female to serve in the Fire Department.
Officer Shepherd has been trained in essential domestic firefighting and aerodrome firefighting...
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AT&T Wireless To Announce Launch Plans
AT&T Wireless, another of the major new entrants into the telecommunications industry in the Cayman Islands, has called a press conference for Tuesday morning to announce their launch activities and other service related information...
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Mexico's President Attempts To Control Media Advertising
 Hard on the heels of the decision by the Cayman Islands Cabinet to ban government advertising in Cayman Net News, comes a similar situation in Mexico, where the Organization of Ibero-American Journalists (OPI) has expressed its concern after President Vicente Fox urged federal officials not to offer state advertising to media that fail to perform their function "correctly."
The OPI has asked the Mexican government to clarify the instructions Fox gave the officials in a private
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Italian magistrates take verbal depositions against banks in Parmalat affair
Magistrates in Italy probing the collapse of Italian dairy giant Parmalat have taken verbal depositions against banks, notably American, that issued bonds that the group can no longer reimburse, press reports said last week... read more...
Person of the Day
- Pat Steward
 An easy-going director is behind Prospect Playhouse's production of Anne of Green Gables. Pat Steward says she is certainly no "slave driver."
The play depicts the early years of Anne Shirley, as she fumbles her way through life in early 1900's Canada.
Plenty of work went into the production, with rehearsals three nights a week for six weeks. For Pat, having seven children in the cast was no extra
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