Issue No. 714 Monday, 9 August 2004
Pilar Mooted For Turks & Caicos
 Acting
Director of Tourism Pilar Bush is on a short list of candidates to assume the
newly created position of Director General of the Turks and Caicos Islands’
Tourist Board, according to sources in the tourism industry in the sister
Overseas Territory. Two independent sources verified the report, and one
indicated that Ms Bush has the inside track to get the post...
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CayPolitics Launches Election Poll
 CayPolitics,
the online political and financial publication, will launch a new election
poll feature on the website on Monday, according to CEO Ellio Solomon.
“We’ve tried to make the poll as realistic as possible,” said Mr Solomon.
“Those voting in West Bay or George Town will be able to vote for four
candidates, those voting in Bodden Town three candidates, and so forth.”...
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Joy Basdeo To Retire
 Permanent
Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Human Resources and Culture, Joy
Basdeo, tendered her letter of resignation to HE the Governor Bruce Dinwiddy
on 30 June, Cayman Net News has learned. Mrs Basdeo’s resignation will
take effect on 30 June 2005, at which time she plans to retire. “I’ve worked
for a very long time in a high-pressure position,” she said...
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Cayman Islands’ Students Graduate In
the UK
 A
group of students from the Cayman Islands travelled to the University of
Portsmouth in England last month to receive Masters’ Degrees in human resource
management. The graduation ceremony was the culmination of three years’
study and was part of the developmental programme for human resource
management, spearheaded by the Personnel Department’s Personnel Training Unit...
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General Election 2004
 Cayman
Net News today sets the political agenda for this country’s most important
General Election ever. The 17 November poll is just 100 days away, and over
the coming weeks many issues of national importance will be debated.
Every day until the election, Cayman Net News will be devoting at least one
page to election-related issues...
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Person of the Day - Twyla
Vargas
 “I
have to have gospel music to start my day,” says Twyla Vargas, Bodden Town
Librarian. “Sometimes I wonder what the neighbours are thinking, because I
usually play it very loud. It inspires me, I just can’t do without it.”
Art and craft are Twyla’s other passions. “I make bags, baskets, birdhouses
and fruit baskets out of calabash, which is a kind of gourd,” she says...
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