Issue No. 790 Wednesday, 2 March 2005
Brac Power looks to move uptown
 Cayman Brac Power and Light (CBPL)
will move to a proposed business resilience park on the Bluff, as soon as a road
into the property is completed. The CBPL Board of Directors has approved the building of a new power plant in UpTown,
a proposed development in which all the utilities required to operate an office,
such as power, water, phone and network connectivity, are highly available...
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Customs awards celebrate a proud history
 On Friday 25 February 2005, H.M
Customs Department – one of the oldest Departments of government, and one that
has adopted the slogan “Protecting our Borders, Securing our Future” –
distributed 62 awards to employees of the Department. Awards were divided
into 12 categories including Male and Female Officers of the Year, Leadership
and Team Spirit, Enforcement, Customer Service, Warehouse...
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Women abused over permits
A large number of cases of domestic abuse reported to, and being handled by, the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre (CICC)
are ones where immigration issues and finances are being used by the abuser as
grounds to control the victim and to perpetrate emotional or physical abuse. “In the Cayman Islands work permit issues have long been used by the dominant partner to maintain abusive relationships with their partners.”...
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Money laundering case has problem with juror
The conviction of Patrick Tibbetts has
run into controversy because of a problem with one of the jurors in what is
possibly one of the biggest money laundering cases in the Cayman Islands for
several years. After an eight-month trial, Defence Council, Michael Wood, asked Chief Justice Anthony Smellie to set aside Patrick Tibbetts’s
conviction, based on information on an affidavit that there was an irregularity
with a juror...
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Cayman Net News Home and
Garden Supplement
 Cayman
Net News has published a Special Home and Garden Supplement with this issue,
including articles on Vigor Nursery: 33 years on, Rebuilding homes and gardens,
10 ways to add value to your home, How to make your home pet friendly, Our
romance with gazebos, Elements of backyard comfort, Dramatic carpeting design
options, Three steps to an amazing deck makeover
and much more...
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Person of the Day - Corretta Miller-Cobban
A cashier on the pharmacy counter at Kirk’s Supermarket, Coretta Miller-Cobban
spends much of her spare time studying, and her ambition is to become a fully
qualified pharmacist. “I just read. I’m taking classes at the moment, I am
studying ‘O’ level English and Mathematics, and I would like to take my studies
further.” she said. “I also like reading autobiographies of famous people."...
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