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Issue No. 1086 Thursday, 4 May 2006
Police seek ethnic balance Rudolph Dixon, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of Management Support within the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) is looking at recruiting people from certain nationalities to reflect the true make up of the Cayman Islands community. DCP Dixon said that the numbers of different nationals living in the Cayman Islands are growing... read more..
Risk key issue at hedge fund seminar With the recent collapse of high profile hedge funds such as Bayou Group, Global Alternative Investment Management (GAIM) Cayman Conference focussed on helping investors conduct effective due diligence on hedge funds. The conference started at The Ritz-Carlton on 30 April and concluded on 3 May. Speakers at the GAIM conference shared the techniques they use... read more..
Budget tight says Opposition Opposition Member of the Legislative Assembly, Rolston Anglin, (MLA) has said that the 2006/7 Budget, which the Government recently presented in the Legislative Assembly, is uncomfortably tight. That is, with any fallout of projected earnings, would put the country’s books into deficit. Mr Anglin said that there was no guarantee that the additional income will flow in to Government coffers... read more..
Surveyors begin to measure work forceThe Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) sad that the semi-annual Labour Force Survey is underway and it will be conducted over the next three weeks in Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac. Twenty people will undertake the interview in Grand Cayman and two in Cayman Brac. All interviewers can be identified by their photo cards, and the survey should take about 15 minutes, said ESO Director Maria Zingapan... read more..
Neighbours do the watchingResidents in East End have joined forces to launch a new Neighbourhood Watch scheme. RCIPS Community Beat Officer, PC Lenford Butler was instrumental in helping the people of Austin Conolly Drive, Gun Bay set up the initiative which aims to tackle crime. “The residents took the initiative and requested a neighbourhood watch because they want to prevent crime in the region before it happens,” said PC Butler... read more..
Person of the Day - Lucille Bodden For 14 years she has made social work her life and she doesn’t intend to quit that profession anytime soon. Lucille Bodden, who has been employed at the Department of Children and Family Services for the past five years, says working with people is a rewarding experience. “I like working with people, it’s my job, it’s my life. I get great satisfaction,” she says... read more..
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