Issue No. 624 Tuesday, 30 March 2004
Breaking the Taboo
 Businesswoman Sandra Catron has revealed she is putting herself forward as a candidate for this year's election, campaigning on issues affecting women and children and aiming to break the taboo over child sex abuse.
She feels so stongly about that particular issue that she is willing to risk not getting the endorsement of her party, the People's Progressive Movement (PPM), so she can speak out
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Student Hurt In Nightclub Brawl
A student from St Matthew's University Medical School had to have 19 stitches to his face following a fracas at the O-Bar night club recently.
"He had a very serious facial injury and received the stitches from his mouth up to the top of his cheek, just under the eye," said Police Sergeant Mike
Cansell... read more...
Cable & Wireless Donates Telephones To Fight Crime
 In an effort to fend off crime in the Cayman Islands, Cable & Wireless recently donated five mobile telephones to Cayman Crime Stoppers for placement with residents without them.
As part of a pilot program, the phones will be given to residents of the Watlers Road area, some of which do not have phones in their houses... read
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Caymanian attorney Melanie McLaughlin is new acquisition for Hunter & Hunter
 Melanie McLaughlin joined Hunter & Hunter (soon to be Appleby Spurling Hunter) on Friday, 19 March, as an associate litigation attorney.
Already well established as a leading litigation practice in the Cayman Islands, the firm will be further strengthened by its fusion with Appleby Spurling & Kempe, which will occur on 1 April.
Ms McLaughlin noted, "I am looking forward to developing a top-quality litigation practice... read
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Parmalat prosecutors end probe but judge will not accept fast-track trial
Prosecutors investigating a massive accounting scandal at Italian food group Parmalat wound up their probe last week, a judicial source said, closing the first stage of what is likely to be a long drawn-out case.
According to a report by Reuters, the prosecution team had asked for a fast-track trial which would have skipped preliminary, closed-door hearings but the request was rejected, meaning the case will now wind its way through Italy's often slow court system... read more...
Person of the Day
- Colette Day
 She is hardworking and efficient but Colette Day always has a pleasant smile for her co-workers at Caribbean Publishing Company.
This South-African native now calls Seven Mile Beach her home, along with her husband of five years, Andrew, and her cats Bink and Bonk.
"I love animals more than life itself," she said. "When I was a child, people used to say we had a menagerie of different animals."... read
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