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Cayman Islands News, Articles and InformationKeep crime out of CaymanUSA national news recently targeted crime against American tourists in the Caribbean, specifically Aruba, Turks and Caicos and the cruise ships.Safety is becoming a big issue for travelling Americans. The Cayman Islands government must do all it can to fight crime in the islands. Tourism is important to the islands and the fear of crime and personal injury is a concern of today’s traveller. The Cayman Islands has enjoyed a very low crime rate in the past, but as we have seen recently, it is starting to become a major concern to tourists, Caymanians and expats. The people of the Cayman Islands have always been considered the most law abiding, honest and educated people in the Caribbean (in the world in my opinion).
ISAF Nations Cup 2006The TAG-Heuer ISAF Nations Cup Regional Final for North America will be held in Charlotte Amalie Harbour in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands from 8-11 June. Seven national open teams and four womens teams will compete in the ISAF Grade 2 event for the opportunity to represent the North American region at the ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final in Ireland. .
A toast to triviaThe Tuesday-night throng - a beery, tattooed, smoke-stained cavalcade - muttered and milled about Nallen's on Market Street while the bosses laid down rules via loudspeaker. The bout was about to begin, but this would be no free-for-all. If the Marquess of Queensberry had been present, he would have approved - a competition, nay, a combat, of such nature demanded focus and respect.This wasn't just some tequila-fueled bar brawl or meatheaded underground fight club. This was important. This was a pub quiz. In a growing number of bars across the metro area, pub quizzes and trivia nights are popular diversions for bored local brainiacs and customer-hungry bar owners. Where once the midweek tavern crowd would consist of little more than service employees and hard cases with nicknames for their gin blossoms, now educated urbanites huddle, sip cocktails and try to remember the name of Gary Coleman's goldfish in Diff'rent Strokes.
Florida to Get Rainfall as Tropical Depression Becomes StormJune 10 (Bloomberg) -- A tropical storm that will likely bring rain to northern and central Florida by Tuesday isn't expected to become a hurricane, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.Tropical Depression One formed 45 miles off the western coast of Cuba about 9 a.m. New York time today, said Dennis Feltgen of the National Weather Service. Wind speeds are expected to reach tropical storm level of 39 miles (63 kilometers) per hour by tomorrow morning, he said. Once winds reach that speed, it will take the first name of the season, Alberto. There is less than a 25 percent chance the storm's winds will reach hurricane-level speeds of 75 miles an hour, according to the weather service. ``Right now, it is a tropical depression and it is incredibly poorly organized,'' Feltgen said.
49er girls pose in InclineThere's gold in them thar hills. (Sorry, but had to "go there" for this story.)That's right... Incline residents and visitors strolling through the sands of the Hyatt Beach or Sand Harbor Tuesday were (depending on your demographic) "treated" to an inordinate number of scantily clad, nubile beauties surrounded by lights, cameras and - plenty of "handlers." Is this Cabo San Lucas? Maui? The Cayman Islands? Barbados? . Tropical depression updateA tropical depression that formed this morning in the Caribbean Sea was the first of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, which scientists predict could produce up to 16 named storms, six of them major hurricanes.The depression was expected to become the year's first named storm - Alberto - as it veers toward Florida but was not expected to become a hurricane. "It will be relatively weak in terms of wind, but that doesn't mean it's going to be weak in terms of rainfall," senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart said. Last year's hurricane season was the busiest and most destructive in recorded history. Hurricane Katrina alone devastated Louisiana and Mississippi and was blamed for more than 1,570 deaths in Louisiana alone. The depression that formed Saturday, nine days after the official start of the season, had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph, just below the 39-mph threshold for a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.
30 entities to receive awards today for blood donationTHE University of the West Indies, Campion College and Dinthill Technical will be among 30 entities, institutions, schools and individuals to receive awards for their contribution to blood donation today - World Blood Donor Day. The ceremony, which will take place at the Ministry of Health on King Street in Kingston, while have Minister of Health Horace Dalley as the guest speaker, while Dr Ernest Pate, Pan-American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation representative in Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, and Grace Allen-Young, permanent secretary in the ministry, will be in attendance. Sandra Brown-Thomas, communication co-ordinator of the voluntary blood donor programme at the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS), told JIS News that apart from recognising the usually outstanding individual donors nominated by the island's eight blood collection centres, awards will be presented to corporate sponsors, schools, institutions as well as the uniformed groups, such as the Jamaica Defence Force. |
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