
Issue No. 916 Monday, 5 September 2005
HSA finances in a ‘terrible
mess’
The new Health Services Authority Board can find no balance
sheets, no collections and receivables accounts and basically no financial
records at all representing the Authority’s financial history...
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Conference set to transform education
More
than 500 people packed the Mary Miller Hall when the two day Education
Conference 2005 opened on Friday 1 September. The forum brought together
Government leaders, educators and community members to define the challenges and
create a blueprint for change in the school system. The Minister of
Education, Hon Alden McLaughlin, said one of the key words of the education
conference is ‘together’...
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A Murder on the High Seas
A
Cuban migrant who stopped at Cayman Brac on his way to the US has found himself
under suspicion of murdering another Cuban in his group during a long and, by
all accounts, harrowing two month journey across the ocean. And according
to one attorney in the US the alleged crime could fall under the jurisdiction of
the Cayman Islands. The story concerns a group of migrants who arrived on
the Brac at the end of June, 2004...
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Police concern over incident of 'uncommon' serious crime
Members of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS)
have described abduction as an uncommon crime for the Cayman Islands but on
Friday, 26 August, a woman was arrested on suspicion of committing such a
crime. The victim of that abduction was also reportedly raped and two
men have been arrested in connection with the latter charge. According to RCIPS
Media Liaison Officer, this abduction is raising concerns...
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Police Service ranks to swell with imports from UK
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) will be welcoming some twenty
officers from the United Kingdom in around six weeks time, the Royal Cayman
Islands Police Service has announced...
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Person of the Day - Jai Chowtee

A volunteer with the Humane Society, Jai Chowtee’s
other job was a waiter at the Lighthouse Restaurant at Breakers, but like so
many other people, he had to find something else to do after Hurricane Ivan
almost destroyed the restaurant. “I’ve been helping move things around and tidying up here, I enjoy walking the dogs, and playing with the cats, and helping with the sales,” Mr Chowtee
said...
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OTHER NEWS
BUSINESS MONDAY
Silver anniversary with finance firm
Entrepreneur of the week: Allan Foster
Doing Business Lunch:
A little laughter with your food
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