Archive for July 16th, 2019
UCCI students take part in CPA Youth Parliament
(CNS Local Life): University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) students Reon Porter and Leah Robinson are representing Cayman at the 15th Regional Youth Parliament set for Wednesday, 17 July and organised as part of the 44th annual conference of the Caribbean, Americas and Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), being held 14-19 […]
Rex Crighton Blvd traffic diversion
Water Authority – Cayman wishes to advise its valued customers and the motoring public that the eastbound traffic along Rex Crighton Blvd. will be diverted to Chime Street (heading towards Shamrock Rd.) on Thursday, 18 July, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm to facilitate planned works. Traffic signs will be posted in the general vicinity and all […]
New director of the Economics and Statistics Office
(CNS Local Life): Adolphus Laidlow has been named the new director of the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) as of 1 June. Maria Zingapan, the previous director, held the post from 2007 until April this year. Laidlow served as the deputy director from June 2015 but has been with the Cayman Islands Government since February […]
Why does DoT sign have wrong web address?
I took this photo (see below) Saturday (6 July) thinking it’s odd that the Department of Tourism or whoever is in charge of this sign registered caymanisland.ky instead of caymanislandS.ky. Turns out they didn’t, caymanislands.ky forwards to visitcaymanislands.com. However, the URL printed on the physical sign takes you to the “future home of something quite […]
CNCF to preview Cayman’s CARIFESTA performances
(CNS Local Life): The largest-ever Cayman contingent, comprising 50 delegates, will be travelling to Trinidad & Tobago next month for the 14th annual Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA) to show off the best of Cayman’s arts and culture, from music, dance and theatre to visual, culinary and heritage arts. Ahead of the festival, which […]
Group works to save historic Caymanian cottage
(CNS Local Life): A multifaceted group of heritage stakeholders is working to preserve a traditional Caymanian-style cottage built in the early 1800’s by relocating it to the Mission House property in Bodden Town. Towards that end, the Ministry of Culture has concluded the procurement exercise to move the Clayton Nixon home, which is located on […]
