Issue No. 695 Tuesday, 13 July 2004
Beach Sand Coming
The re-nourishment of the southern Seven Mile Beach is
scheduled to begin next month with the arrival of a barge of sand from the
sister British Overseas Territory Turks and Caicos, according the Director of
the Department of Environment (DoE), Gina Petrie-Ebanks...
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Ministry and Portfolio Funding No Longer Automatic
 Ministries
and portfolios of the Cayman Islands Government will no longer receive automatic
funding from the Cabinet unless they can demonstrate to their Minister or
Official Member that they have delivered their agreed outputs or services, it
was announced this week...
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Lands & Survey Department monitor SMB
 Workers
from the Lands & Survey Department have monitored the shoreline along Seven Mile
Beach for the last nine months by measuring the movement of the sand. The
monitoring is being done at the request of the Department of the Environment...
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Scientists track Cayman sea turtles via satellite
An endangered Caribbean Loggerhead sea turtle has been tagged with a
state-of-the-art Satellite Transmitter in Cayman to allow scientists, school
children, and members of the public to track her migration...
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Another Cayman firm doing business with a terrorist nation
On May 31, 2003, six weeks after President Bush accused Syria
of having weapons of mass destruction, Devon Energy Corp., an Oklahoma
City-based oil and gas producer, entered a partnership with the Syrian
government to spend $17 million to search for oil in Syria. According to
Bloomberg News, Devon channeled the business through a Cayman Islands
subsidiary...
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Person of the Day - Irene
Munn
 Nominated
by both her co-worker and husband Webster Anderson for her love and hard work,
Irene Munn smiled as Webster spoke of her as an “excellent partner.”
Irene works hard as a member of the Ruby Janitorial team, sometimes working
day and night shifts in order to help provide for her own family and parents
in Jamaica. She said: “I love the discipline here and the principles
people live by.”...
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