Issue No. 692 Thursday, 8 July 2004
Home-Schooling Up
 As
parents look for alternatives on how to best educate their children, the
number of students being home-schooled in the Cayman Islands is growing every
year. By current estimates, the number of home-schooled children in
Cayman is up to 40, the highest since parents first began home-schooling here
almost twenty years ago. Parents in Cayman have turned to home-schooling
for a wide range of reasons...
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Local craftsman carves out history
 During
last week’s re-opening of the Legislative Assembly (LA), the work of craftsmen
Horace Ingram was literally front and centre in the form of the new mahogany
Speaker’s chair that he carved on the request of the Leader of Government
Business Hon McKeeva Bush. Mr Ingram, who has been coming to the Cayman
Islands since 1981, said that he had started the work on the Speaker’s chair in
January...
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CUC Employee Fatally Injured
 The
Manager of Caribbean Utilities Company’s (CUC) Line Department, Gerald McRobb,
died early Monday morning from injuries sustained after falling from an electric
pole. A Canadian national from British Columbia, Mr McRobb died at 5 am
following an accident that occurred shortly after 1 am when he fell from a CUC
pole he was climbing near the company’s West Bay Substation...
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New Chief Immigration Officer Starting Next Week
 The
Cayman Islands Immigration Department will welcome back a familiar face when
Franz Manderson takes the post of Chief Immigration Officer (CIO) on 12 July.
“I am very excited to be returning to the Immigration Department,” Mr
Manderson comments. Mr Manderson took a leave-of-absence from the civil
service last year to complete his legal qualifications...
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Government scheme improves standards
The Ministry of Education, Human Resources and Culture
recently expanded electronic learning initiatives to include the entire
Caymanian workforce. “The programme intends to provide technical training
to those members of the workforce who need to hone or develop their 21st century
skills,” said Permanent Secretary Joy Basdeo...
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Person of the Day - Wildel
Powell
 Having
lived in Grand Cayman for 18 years, Wildel Powell enjoys going home to
Clarendon, Jamaica, but is very content with his adopted home. Currently
working as a fabricator in the air conditioning industry, in his spare time he
seeks out the cooler parts of the island by taking a trip from his George Town
home to East End. He says: “It always seems cooler on that part of the
island.”...
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