Issue No. 848 Wednesday, 1 June 2005
Elected Cabinet Meets the Press
 The newly elected Government was off to an early start meeting campaign
promises this week when they held the first press briefing. The Leader of Government Business and Minister for Planning, Communications,
District Administration & Information Technology, Hon Kurt Tibbetts, opened the
briefing reminder that they were a Government in transition as some of their
current portfolios would change as of 1 July...
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A Bracker at the helm for all Cayman
The Hon Kurt Tibbetts is the first Leader of Government Business to have
the responsibility of District Administration within his Ministry, and this,
he says, is an indication of the importance the new Administration gives to
the district of Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. Mr Tibbetts has been a
Representative of George Town since 1973, but he has strong roots on Cayman
Brac, where his parents were from...
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Segoes under Investigation
 The principals of Segoes Securities Ltd and Segoes Bond Fund Ltd, John
Kaweske and James Fontanetta, are reportedly now under investigation for
alleged misappropriation of funds, unauthorized trading and stock manipulation
by the Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service.
"Segoes came to our attention on 15 October.” said Raymond Christian, Detective
Chief Inspector of the FCU...
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Police step up pace in face of rising violence and gun crime
A litany of gun-related crimes and increased levels of dangerous criminal
activity in the Cayman Islands is raising enormous concerns throughout the
community. In response The Royal Cayman Islands Police and other law
enforcement agencies are devising new strategies and stepping up the pace to
meet the violence and gun-related crime head on. Relevant departments are now
orchestrating a type of response to crime ...
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Discussing disaster preparation
and recovery
 Cayman Business Machines, the local distributor for Xerox Office Equipment
and Document Solutions, will be hosting an information session addressing the
issue of disaster planning and recovery. The event will also officially launch Project Ark 2007, an initiative
originally created and developed by Xerox Jamaica to encourage all corporate
and government entities to archive documents as part of their disaster
preparation....
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Person of the Day - Carole Baker
Teaching English at the Brac High School, is a job that
Carole Baker says she finds very rewarding. “Every day is different and there are always new challenges
and many rewards,” she said. When not at work, Ms Baker spends time with her husband
Clive, who is Head of Science at CBHS, and sons, Joshua (12) and Edward (9).
Before coming to the Brac, they lived in a rural community in England...
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