The Laboratory Services Department within the Health Services Authority (HSA) estimates it needs a minimum of 290 more blood donors to safely get through the 2006 hurricane season. But it would be better if it had 490 more blood donors, which means HSA needs 69 percent more people than it currently has on roster. After Hurricane Ivan, the donor roster fell down to 551... read more..
Family Fun Day brightens up the holiday weekend
After the weekends' Queen's birthday celebrations were canceled following a deluge of rain, a special Family Fun Day on Monday helped brighten things up in George Town. The event was organized by the Sunrise Rotary Club, together with Rooster 101.9 and Z99 radio stations, and it took place at Dart Family Park, South Sound, on Monday 12 June... read more..
Cayman affected by first named storm
Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2006 hurricane season, caused flooding, sporadic power outages and cancellation of the Queen's Birthday celebrations in the Cayman Islands last weekend. The local Meteorological Office told Cayman Net News that 8.7 inches of rain was dumped on Grand Cayman from Wednesday, 7 June to Monday 12, June 2006... read more..
Law set to change on birth registrations
If all goes according to plan there will be no such thing as an "illegitimate" child anymore. Legislators meeting in Assembly on 9 June 2006 tabled a Bill that, if passed into law, would change Cayman's existing Births and Deaths Registration Law to allow for re-registration of persons under specified circumstances. With the change, children could be re-registered... read more..
Stamp-duty open to fraud says Opposition
Opposition and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for West Bay Rolston Anglin, said that the Government's policy to reduce the stamp duty rate for Caymanians could open the door for fraud. "I do see a real opportunity for a new type of black market to develop," he told the Legislative Assembly last week. Mr Anglin had previously said he was in favour of the move... read more..
Person of the Day - Mary Scott
Hailing from the land of the great "Outback," a country that is hundreds of times more vast and records some 500 times the population of the Cayman Islands - travelling to the Caribbean for the first time only two years ago, to live on a small island, was not a scary prospect for Mary Scott, she said. In fact, the change appealed to her spirit of adventure... read more..
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The Laboratory Services Department within the Health Services Authority (HSA) estimates it needs a minimum of 290 more blood donors to safely get through the 2006 hurricane season. But it would be better if it had 490 more blood donors, which means HSA needs 69 percent more people than it currently has on roster. After Hurricane Ivan, the donor roster fell down to 551... 
After the weekends' Queen's birthday celebrations were canceled following a deluge of rain, a special Family Fun Day on Monday helped brighten things up in George Town. The event was organized by the Sunrise Rotary Club, together with Rooster 101.9 and Z99 radio stations, and it took place at Dart Family Park, South Sound, on Monday 12 June... 
Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2006 hurricane season, caused flooding, sporadic power outages and cancellation of the Queen's Birthday celebrations in the Cayman Islands last weekend. The local Meteorological Office told Cayman Net News that 8.7 inches of rain was dumped on Grand Cayman from Wednesday, 7 June to Monday 12, June 2006... 
If all goes according to plan there will be no such thing as an "illegitimate" child anymore. Legislators meeting in Assembly on 9 June 2006 tabled a Bill that, if passed into law, would change Cayman's existing Births and Deaths Registration Law to allow for re-registration of persons under specified circumstances. With the change, children could be re-registered... 
Opposition and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for West Bay Rolston Anglin, said that the Government's policy to reduce the stamp duty rate for Caymanians could open the door for fraud. "I do see a real opportunity for a new type of black market to develop," he told the Legislative Assembly last week. Mr Anglin had previously said he was in favour of the move... 
Hailing from the land of the great "Outback," a country that is hundreds of times more vast and records some 500 times the population of the Cayman Islands - travelling to the Caribbean for the first time only two years ago, to live on a small island, was not a scary prospect for Mary Scott, she said. In fact, the change appealed to her spirit of adventure... 
