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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 ... read more...


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... read more...


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 ... read more...


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 ... read more...


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 ... read more...


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 ... read more...


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