The second annual Scotiabank golf tournament held in support of the Caring for Life Foundation has received financial support from the law firm Higgs & Johnson. Established in 2009, the foundation’s goal is to provide all Cayman Island residents with continually improving world-class healthcare. This is done by raising money to pay for equipment, making building and property improvements to health facilities and supporting research and education efforts that assist the Health Services Authority. ...

The Cayman Islands Boxing Association is looking forward to another successful year, following its progress in 2011. According to Tommy Ebanks, president of the association, last year’s the success was ‘astronomical’, with some players registering up to 10 fights. He noted that this involved much travel, since there are no rival boxing clubs in the Cayman Islands. “It was a marvelous year and we hope to do more in the future,” he told Cayman Net News in an interview. ...

Canadian company Solamon Energy Corporation has announced plans for a US $450 million solar power plant in Jamaica, the largest in the Caribbean. Solamon Senior Vice President Ainsley Brown said several parishes were being considered as future homes of one of three 50-acre plots that when conjoined will provide 60MW of clean electricity. ...

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – Ahead of his attendance at the UK-Caribbean Forum held on 20 January, British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, highlighted the major role of private sector investment in these difficult economic times. “The private sector is the engine of growth for our economies, so it is right that they frame the questions that we politicians will discuss. ...

If you are like most adults, especially if you played high impact sports when you were younger, you probably had some kind of injury which makes you reluctant to exercise and are a bit more sedentary than you would really want to be. An injury doesn’t have to stop you from ever training again. Physical therapy is crucial to recovery. Then, certain exercise modifications are appropriate to work around sensitive joints and make muscle gain with no pain. With the assistance of my client, Neil Armstrong, we show you how to modify basic exercises. ...

The Scriptures, especially when read and expounded in church, are often the recourse we have to keep us in mind that there is a reality that goes beyond the calculations of our own plans. We all know what it is to be held up in our plans by unforeseen events of one kind or another, ranging from some minor sickness to some more significant disaster such as a hurricane. Some plans of ours too may be advanced in a way we had not envisaged by factors over which we have no personal control. A letter or email may arrive which one was not expecting that has the potential to change the course of one’s life. The Scriptures point us to a Providential God working out things according to His timing rather than ours, even working into His good purpose the minor and major hold-ups and disasters that we experience and that discountenance us from time to time. ...

[caption id="attachment_96" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Gordon Barlow has lived in Cayman since 1978. He was the first full-time Manager of the Chamber of Commerce 1986-88 - a turbulent period as the Chamber struggled to establish its political independence. He has publicly commented on social and political issues since 1990, and in 1998 served as the secretary of two committees of the Vision-20 ...

[caption id="attachment_88" align="alignleft" width="167" caption="North Side MLA Ezzard Miller attended the gathering."][/caption] The Concerned Citizens Group, which last year organised a petition against proposed changes to the West Bay Road, has moved to clarify press reports regarding signatures on the petition, which was presented to His Excellency the Governor on 12 December. Speaking on Thursday, 19 ...

[caption id="attachment_71" align="alignright" width="135" caption="Cathy Gomez is a Pastoral and School Counselor and an adjunct teacher at UCCI. She has published a book “Coping with Sudden Job Loss: Experiences in the Cayman Islands,” and is actively involved in prison ministry and the music ministry at Elmslie Memorial United Church. In addition to qualifications in Hospital Administration, she holds a ...

Cayman Enterprise City (CEC) will be having its groundbreaking ceremony in the Savannah of Grand Cayman in March this year, according to Hillary McKenzie-Cahill, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development. Speaking at the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce BE INFORMED series on Wednesday, 25 January, the VP further noted that CEC was ready to start its operations with six tenants who would be mo ...