In its second year of operation, the biggest challenge for the Cayman Islands National Insurance Company (CINICO) is controlling health care costs, which are rising every year. The CEO of CINICO, Gordon Rowell explained that health care is something that many countries have to grapple with. For instance in the US, there is high accessibility to health care, but it is very expensive... read more..
Orchid show opens at Botanic Park
The Cayman Islands Orchid Society held their Orchid Show Preview and Reception on Friday 21 April at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park. With some 26 different orchids growing here in the Cayman Islands and six of them found nowhere else, the flower is particularly special to the country. Moreover the Banana Orchid, one of the six indigenous, is Cayman’s national flower ... read more..
Cubans find freedom in the US
The twenty-eight Cuban asylum seekers who went missing from Grand Cayman on 22 March, have all reached the US safely Cayman Net News has heard. The escapees included Juan Guerra, who arrived in April 2005 and who then spent ten months in jail while appealing an initial unsuccessful asylum application. The group comprised eleven females, nine males and seven children... read more..
Plan for George Hicks High School in hands of parents
Ministry officials and George Hicks’ teachers have reached an agreement about a plan to improve the school, Education Minister, Hon Alden McLaughlin told the media. A sprawling campus with increasing security concerns, a shift system which many have complained about and the sub-standard tuition are some of the problems facing the school... read more..
Police battle crime over weekend
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service RCIPS had a fairly busy weekend with a number of people arrested for various offences. Between Friday and Saturday officers arrested two women on suspicion of assault. Two men for driving offences including driving under the influence of alcohol, as well as dangerous driving... read more..
Person of the Day - Isaac Watson
Working as a warehouse foreman for Edie’s Décor in George Town, suits Isaac Watson. “I like arranging things, and putting things in order,” he said. “When the container comes in, I have to unload it and find out where to put all the stuff. Tile grout, tiles, carpet, wood flooring, vinyl tiles; I have to find a space for all of it. But Mr Watson isn’t all about work and no play... read more..
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In its second year of operation, the biggest challenge for the Cayman Islands National Insurance Company (CINICO) is controlling health care costs, which are rising every year. The CEO of CINICO, Gordon Rowell explained that health care is something that many countries have to grapple with. For instance in the US, there is high accessibility to health care, but it is very expensive... 
The Cayman Islands Orchid Society held their Orchid Show Preview and Reception on Friday 21 April at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park. With some 26 different orchids growing here in the Cayman Islands and six of them found nowhere else, the flower is particularly special to the country. Moreover the Banana Orchid, one of the six indigenous, is Cayman’s national flower ... 
The twenty-eight Cuban asylum seekers who went missing from Grand Cayman on 22 March, have all reached the US safely Cayman Net News has heard. The escapees included Juan Guerra, who arrived in April 2005 and who then spent ten months in jail while appealing an initial unsuccessful asylum application. The group comprised eleven females, nine males and seven children... 
Ministry officials and George Hicks’ teachers have reached an agreement about a plan to improve the school, Education Minister, Hon Alden McLaughlin told the media. A sprawling campus with increasing security concerns, a shift system which many have complained about and the sub-standard tuition are some of the problems facing the school... 
Working as a warehouse foreman for Edie’s Décor in George Town, suits Isaac Watson. “I like arranging things, and putting things in order,” he said. “When the container comes in, I have to unload it and find out where to put all the stuff. Tile grout, tiles, carpet, wood flooring, vinyl tiles; I have to find a space for all of it. But Mr Watson isn’t all about work and no play... 
