Issue No. 685 Monday, 28 June 2004
West Bay Team to Fight UDP
A four-person team, including a former leader of Government
Tom Jefferson, is reportedly forming in West Bay to contend against the United
Democratic Party (UDP) legislative foursome in the November General Elections,
according to reliable sources. Suggested to be running along with Mr
Jefferson in the proposed West Bay alliance are Mario Ebanks, Leonard Ebanks
and Dalkeith Bothwell...
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Putting On The Ritz For Staffing
 The
Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman held a Career Fair at the Family Life Centre on
Walkers Road last Friday and Saturday. There was a high turnout of those
looking for work, and a large crowd formed outside the doors an hour before the
event began on Friday, and lines ran outside to the parking lot for hours.
Managers from Ritz-Carlton properties worldwide greeted attendees...
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CUC Lets Eleven Go
Less than two weeks after Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) signed a preliminary
agreement with Government to renew its operating licence, and announced that
residential electricity rates will drop 4.7 percent in October, the company
eliminated the jobs of 11 employees last Friday...
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Tourism Numbers Up 22 Percent
 The
latest tourism statistics show air arrivals up nearly 22 percent for May 2004
compared with the same period last year. This May, 25,502 stay-over
visitors arrived in the Cayman Islands by air, compared to 20,909 in 2003.
This year’s figure was also 8.3 percent higher than the number of stay-over
tourists for the month in 2002. May marked the sixth straight month that
arrivals surpassed the year before...
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Islands “not immune” from substance abuse
The Chief Executive of the National Drug Council has
highlighted encouraging statistics in the battle against abuse, in a major
speech which she delivered at First Baptist Church yesterday. Catherine
Chesnut, CEO of the NDC, chose the theme “Drugs: Treatment Works” for this
year’s International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, in a bid to
correct the misconception that drug abuse was a permanent problem...
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Person of the Day - Yessenia Haylock
 “I
enjoy my work,” says Yessenia Haylock, who works in the Coffee Grinder
restaurant at Seven Mile Shops in George Town. Yessenia has a reputation
for being friendly and helpful. “I like dealing with customers, I see them as
my friends,” she says. She often works long hours, and so regards her
colleagues as family. “You could say that I live here,” she says.
Although she is from Honduras...
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