Issue No. 686 Tuesday, 29 June 2004
Snag Hits CBA Status Lawsuit
 The
Caymanian Bar Association’s (CBA) legal action to challenge the Cayman Islands
Cabinet’s making of 2,850 grants of Caymanian Status last year has run into
difficulties with its attorney of record coming off the case. Sources
indicate that attorney Micki Jafa Bodden will no longer represent the CBA in
the suit filed in March seeking judicial review of the Cabinet’s Status
grants...
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Surface Mail Is Hit By Delays
Surface mail from the UK is suffering from delays, the Cayman Islands Post
Office has revealed. The delays affect all surface mail sent to the Cayman
Islands since late March. They are the result of disagreements between
Royal Mail and the companies it uses to ship the mail...
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Marine Institute Breaks Ground In Little Cayman
 The
Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) broke ground for the main buildings of
the Little Cayman Research Centre recently. CCMI is a registered
non-profit educational and research organization in Cayman, with a charity
registration also in the US and in the UK. It is hoped the new facility will
enhance the standing of the Cayman Islands in environmental and academic circles...
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Government changes health insurance laws
Changes to the Health Insurance Law, recently announced during a Parliamentary
Address by the Minister for Health Services, The Hon Gilbert McLean, have been
agreed. The Health Insurance (Amendment) Law, 2004, which has been
passed by the Legislative Assembly, contains changes deemed necessary to keep
pace with Cayman’s growing insurance market...
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Cayman Free Press shareholder sells Telegraph Group for $1.3 billion
The media group Hollinger International, which owns a 40
percent interest in Cayman Free Press, said last week it would sell the
Telegraph Group, publisher of Britain’s Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers,
to the Barclay brothers’ Press Acquisitions Limited for some $1.3 billion...
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Person of the Day -
Jermaine Maize
 One
of the skillful waiters at Treats Restaurant on West Bay Road is Jermaine
Maize. For the past five months he has warmly greeted and served the
international clientele. There is no bigger fan of the Cayman Islands
than Jermaine. “I love how calm it is here. It’s so easy-going and there’s not
too much fuss,” he said. A new father, Jermaine now thinks a great deal
about his four-month-old daughter Jamie...
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