Issue No. 802 Thursday, 24 March 2005
Brac power makes $10m investment
 Cayman Brac Power and Light Company (CBP&L), the only power company on the Sister Islands, is investing in the region of US$10 million in a new plant on the Bluff. The plant will be located 1,000 feet back from the edge of the Bluff, above its current location at Stake Bay, said CBP&L
General Manager Jonathan Tibbetts. He said the plans are completed and will be
submitted to planning...
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Conquering Cayman’s catwalk - Delisa Hernandez
According to some fashion gurus the height requirements for a major fashion model are not absolute, and that’s all Delisa Hernandez needs to know. So, even in an industry where the majority of showstoppers are 5 feet 10 inches and above, Delisa
concentrates on her love for the stage and the camera, the successes she has
had, and continues to buck modelling trends – standing at a mere 5 feet and 2
inches tall...
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Where will all the debris go?
Although CIRO (Cayman Islands Recovery Operation) have indicated that the 300, 000 square yards already collected by MC Restoration is to be moved from the various locations where it is now to the central location in Frank Sound for processing, the removal of the remaining debris is still in question.
MC Restoration reached their targeted 300,000 sq yards of debris at the end of
February...
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Ministry says Education strategies are making up for lost time
At the recent CIRO press briefing, Mary Rodrigues, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Human Resources and Culture, spoke about the progress that was being made in getting the schools back to normal.
This came at a time when both the George Hicks High School and John Gray High
School had been forced to close because of a down-pour that had caused flooding
at both locations...
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Speeding tickets are now way ahead of all other road traffic offences
Speeding offences still outnumber any others on the list of traffic tickets in any given week. Of the 82 traffic tickets issued between 14 and 20 March 2005, 33 drivers were ticketed for speeding.
Royal Cayman Islands Police Service Media Liaison Officer Kafara Augustine said:
“Minor traffic offence figures have remained pretty much where they were before
Hurricane Ivan...
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Person of the Day -
Adalid Puerto
Originally from the Bay Islands in Honduras, his work as a food service supervisor at Mcdonalds’ for two years has convinced Adalid Puerto to open his own restaurant one day. “Right after the hurricane, we were cooking food for hundreds of people and we worked some long hours but I loved it,” he said. Mr Puerto doesn’t get many opportunities to visit his wife, Marla, and two sons Cobun, 7 and Robin, 4 so he gets homesick...
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