
Issue No. 1019 Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Government hits back at Mac
Hon
Arden McLean, Minister of Communications, told the press that the current
Government would have to be in power for a very long time to do what McKeeva
Bush has done in terms of victimization of Civil Servants. Speaking at
the Cabinet Media Briefing of 27 January, Mr McLean was responding to
statements made by the Leader of the Opposition, McKeeva Bush
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Students re-use and re-cycle rubbish for
art
St
Ignatius School Years 3 and 5 held a costume show for parents in the school’s
courtyard on Thursday 25 January. The art teacher in charge of the project, Stephanie Vandem, said, “The students used recycled material such as newspapers, plastic bottles, soda cans, fabric, and sweet wrappers.”
Just over 100 children took part in the project, from Classes 3T, 3H, 5L and
5H...
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Tibbetts defends statement on gay cruise
Speaking
at a Media Briefing by Cabinet members on 27 January The Leader of Government
Business, Hon Kurt Tibbetts, defended his official statement over the arrival
of a gay cruise tour in the Cayman Islands on 31 January. Saying that
none of those raising objections to the visit had considered it more than he
had, he added that there is nothing to be afraid of ...
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HSA staff speaks out on public disrespect
A growing trend of lack of respect for many nurses and doctors at the Health Services Authority (HSA) is impacting morale, according to employees at the Cayman Islands Hospital. Racial slurs, verbal threats and shouting are now commonplace, which can be demoralising
to nurses and doctors, they said. And it is not just in the Accident and
Emergency Room where emotions may already be running high ...
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Boost for wedding tourism
The Cayman Islands’ wedding tourism product is going from strength to strength and a two-page editorial in US magazine
Destination Weddings and Honeymoons is bound to help. The issues hit newsstands earlier this month and features the wedding of Andrea Simkins
and Philip Watt ...
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Person of the Day - Nikeeta Seeram
For her week’s work experience, Cayman Brac High School Year 12 student, Nikeeta Seeram,
chose to work with her father Dahl in the pharmacy of Faith Hospital.
‘I’m definitely considering this as a career. It makes me feel better about
myself to have a purpose providing a service for people,” she says. Ms Seeram
is President of the Brac Leos Club, which gives her a chance to give back to
the community
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