Issue No. 826 Thursday, 28 April 2005
Low cost housing questions raised
The second bidding process for the Affordable Housing Initiative has come under fire recently as members of the Contractors Association have stated the Minister for Community Services, Dr the Hon Frank McField has not addressed their questions regarding Staunch Ltd.
Furthermore, other questions have emerged that despite the four week bidding
extension, the contract has already been awarded to Staunch Ltd....
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Extortion reports denied by RCIPS
The word ‘extortion’ appears to have reared its ugly head in the Cayman Islands at a time when the impact of other serious criminal activity is still being dealt with throughout the Islands by all the anti-crime authorities.
Executive Director of Cayman Against Substance Abuse (CASA), Linda McField,
speaking on Radio Cayman recently said that she was aware of businesses in the
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Power company did not walk from table insists COO
 In the wake of the Government’s recent announcement of the Electricity Regulatory Authority, (ERA) law and the appointment of the Chairman and the Board of Directors, Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) has spoken out about the power firm’s disappointment over how the law was tabled and the Government’s insistence that it was responsible for the cessation of talks.
The company stated this week....
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Batabano invitations delivered in style
 Some of the businesses in down town George Town were treated to a little glamour last week when Batabano masqueraders, including Miss Cayman Stacey-Ann Kelly visited leading Cayman Islands corporate organisations and stylishly hand delivered invitations for the Cable & Wireless Cayman Carnival Batabano Masquerade Fete.
Taking place on Thursday 5 May, this corporate event ...
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Chamber clean-up mobilises hundreds
Early Saturday 23 April hundreds of volunteers armed with refuse sacks marched out onto Cayman’s beaches and roadsides for the Eighth Chamber of Commerce Annual Roadside and Beach Clean-up. So many people came that the Chamber ran out of the 800 T-shirts it had prepared for the volunteers. The Clean-up became a community event for people of every age; children and adults all joined in together...
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Person of the Day
- Romell Coe
As chief engineer at Treasure Island for eight years, Romell Coe loves the challenge of figuring things out, whether it is plumbing, electrical, mechanics, computers or air conditioning. “I like the puzzle of work – like trying to find the leak four or five feet under the ground.”Born in Belize, his mother was Caymanian and he moved here in 1971. Mr Coe and his wife Mary, have three sons, Joseph, 28, Rommel,
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