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Tad Stoner Groundbreaking on the 140-bed initial phase of Dr Devi Shetty’s Narayana Medical Centre and University is set for August this year, with the first patients admitted 12 months later.

Inauguration of the medicalschool component of the project will start just after the August groundbreaking, with an intake of 100 students toward the end of the year, in cooperation with a local school while construction is under way at the Narayana centre.

At a Friday morning gathering at the offices of Gene Thompson, local director for the Shetty project and Director of the Thompson Development Group, Dr Shetty and three executives from his Bangalore-based Narayana Hrudayalaya delivered a progress report on the projected $2 billion, 2,000-bed hospital and medical college project, planned for 200 acres at East End’s High Rock.

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Kittiwake celebrates 1st birthday A parade of boats and special anniversary dive was a great way to mark the first year after the sinking of the Kittiwake, which has become one of the world’s top diving attractions.

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More than 20,000 divers have visited the site over the past year, each paying a small fee for the privilege of seeing the 251-foot vessel.

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Boat parade and dive marks Kittiwake anniversary Photos by Christopher Tobutt

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A circle of nearly a dozen dive boats and other small vessels marked the first anniversary of the sinking of the Kittiwake, a designer dive-site off the coast of West Bay. The parade, which was organised by the Department of Tourism (DOT) and Cayman Islands Tourism Association (CITA), was completed with the 3-canon salute from the Jolly Roger pirate ship, after which many divers and snorkellers jumped into the sea, to see what they

Divers took part in the anniversary dive of the Kittiwake

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The boats circled around the site of the Kittiwake

could see.

There was even a helicopter too, to record the spectacle from a bird’s eye view.

Jane van der Bol Executive Director Cayman Islands Tourism Association said: “It’s been a fabulous success - an incredible year. We had hoped that probably ten thousand divers and snorkelers would experience the Kittiwake, but 11 thousand divers and 9 thousand snorkelers –over 20 thousand people altogether, have been on the Kittiwake in the past year.

“The Kittiwake is one of the top 12 wrecks of the world according to Scuba

Diving Magazine. I’ve dived her and its very exciting. She’s so long, and has five floors so you can spend quite a bit of time on the Kittiwake, it’s a fabulous dive.

“The Kittiwake saved other people in boats and submarines,” Ms van der Bol continued. “She used to be a saver of divers, and there are decompression chambers on the Kittiwake. You can go into the bathrooms, and the glass mirrors are there, and you can see yourself diving.

“And the fish love it. When I went diving there was a big grouper staring at himself in the mirror.”

Jane van der Bol, Executive Director Cayman Islands Tourism Association

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Butterfield names Executive Chairman Designate HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited (“Butterfield” or the “Bank”) today announced that Mr. Brendan McDonagh, who was previously Chief Executive Officer, HSBC North America and Group Managing Director, HSBC Holdings plc, will be nominated for election to its Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 1 May 2012. Subject to his election, the Directors intend to appoint Mr. McDonagh to the position of Executive Chairman of the Bank.

Butterfield’s current Chairman, Mr. Robert Mulderig, has decided to retire from the Board at the conclusion of the 2012 AGM as part of the intended orderly Board transition that was disclosed to shareholders last year. Mr. Mulderig has served as a nonexecutive Director since 1996.

He was appointed as Chairman in 2007.

In his role as Executive Chairman, Mr. McDonagh will work closely with Butterfield’s Board and current management team, headed by Mr. Bradford Kopp, President & Chief Executive Officer, to continue to implement the Bank’s strategic objectives, including enhancing the sustainable profitability of the Bank, improving coordination of resources across jurisdictions and enhancing the core businesses of community banking and wealth management.

Mr. McDonagh is a career banker with extensive international experience in consumer finance, retail and commercial banking and wealth management. He began his career with HSBC in London in 1979 and held increasingly senior positions within HSBC in Brunei, Hong Kong, Oman, Japan, the Channel Islands and the UK.

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Hospital will be open in 2013

(Left to right) Gene Thompson, Dr. A Raghuvanshi, and Dr. Devi Shetty (Photos by Christopher Tobutt)

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Continued from front page “Groundbreaking will be in August this year, said Narayana CEO Dr A Raghuvanshi, “and will be complete in one year. We will start the medical school by the end of this year and take 100 students to start.”

He said the school would “start in a local institution, somewhere else, just to get us going quicker, within the next school year,” while construction on the Shetty school would be during “the next two years to three years.”

Both Mr Thompson and Dr Shetty declined to name the “local institution”, but did not deny it would be St Matthews University School of Medicine.

Dr Shetty, who left yesterday morning after his Tuesday arrival, said the school would train doctors, nurses and technicians, guaranteeing employment and enabling Cayman to build an indigenous healthcare industry.

“In the last seven years in the US,” he said, referring to a nationwide --and global -- recession, “medicine is the only industry to have created jobs, between three million and four million.

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able to support its own healthcare.”

The project, he said, “will drive the local, the Caribbean and the world economy. Doctors, nurses and technicians will always have jobs.

The best gift you can give is training in medical services.”

The new hospital would eliminate the need for airlifts to Miami, Dr Shetty said, pointing to “two or three every day, and sometimes as many as seven, and you have to look at the costs, the inconvenience and the risks”.

Narayana would enable ”every man, woman and child to undergo major surgery without having to sell their assets”, providing affordable medical care to people throughout Cayman, the Caribbean and even North America.

Mr Thompson reviewed the East End land acquisition from landowner and entrepreneur Joe Imparato, who holds more than 600 acres at the site. In partnership with the Shetty project, he was likely to develop a range of ancillary facilities in the area, he said.

Surveys of the 200-acre Narayana portion of High Rock had already started, pending planning application for subdivision of the site.

“We are moving ahead aggressively with figuring out the planning,” Mr Thompson said.

“The first application will be for ‘parcelisation’, then it should be sometime in May for the 140-bed hospital.”

Already, government has changed three laws – regarding medical qualifications, import duties and malpractice insurance -- to enable the hispital, leaving only the issue of tissue transplants.

In the autumn, Minister for Health Mark Scotland had promised to complete both the legal changes and the regulations supporting the laws. Mr Thompson acknowledged yesterday that the timing had slipped, but was enthusiastic about progress.

“It’s all just about complete now,” he said. “We had a number of meetings and we are comfortable to proceed now”. Government “had been very cooperative to enable us to move ahead,” and was likely to finish “in the first part of the year”.

Dr Shetty acknowledged that legislative changes were difficult, but, compared to other governments, he said, The Cayman Islands government works very fast.

“We have met all the officials and it’s been a real joy working with the Cayman Islands government.

“Our intention is to change the rules of the game. We want to build a centre of excellence, and people will come not because it is cheap, but because it is the best,” he said.

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Radio broadcaster shot dead in south Philippines

Pope names new cardinals

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen fatally shot a radio broadcaster as he drove his car with his wife and son in what an advocacy group said Friday was the 150th journalist slain in the Philippines since democracy was restored in 1986.

Police said they did not yet know the motive for the attack late Thursday in southern General Santos city on Christopher Guarin, 42, a broadcast journalist on Radio Mindanao Network and a publisher of a small local tabloid.

He read a text message on air this

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals Friday, including prelates in such key posts as New York and Hong Kong and a large group of Italians holding major Vatican positions.

Cardinals are the pope’s top advisers, the elite group of churchmen who will eventually elect Benedict’s successor.

Of the 22, 18 are under the age of 80 — raising to 125 the number of cardinals eligible to vote in the next papal conclave. Cardinals over 80 are not allowed to vote on the next pope.

Other new cardinals come from Berlin, Prague, Toronto and Florence, Italy.

The Vatican officials include a Brazilian prelate who heads the office for Consecrated Life.

The pope announced the names “with great joy” following an Epiphany Mass that ended the Vatican’s main Christmas celebrations. He said they will be formally elevated at a Feb. 18 ceremony in Rome.

The list includes two Americans: Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York and Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the former archbishop of Baltimore.

The pope named 16 Europeans as cardinals, including seven Italians.

He also named Joao Braz de Aviz, a Brazilian who heads the Vatican office for religious life; John Tong Hon, bishop of Hong Kong; and George Alencherry, archbishop of the Syro-Malabar church in India.

week in which the sender warns Guarin he would be killed, but his co-anchor said Guarin found the text puzzling and did not know of any enemies.

Guarin managed to flee his vehicle when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire, but the assailants chased him down and shot him repeatedly at close range before escaping, regional police chief Benjardi Matele said.

His wife, who was slightly injured in the attack, said in a radio interview that her husband had received death threats.

Guarin’s 12-year-old son was not injured but was traumatized, said Supt. Resty Damaso, a regional police spokesman.

Police planned to question Guarin’s wife on the nature of the death threats against him, Damaso said.

Fred Solinap, Guarin’s coanchor in their program on herbal medicine, said Guarin was puzzled by a text message he got during their radio broadcast on Tuesday. The message, which Guarin read on air, warned him in the local dialect not to go out or he will be killed.

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Cayman National Bank expands and installs ATM in Little Cayman Cayman National Bank officially opened its newly expanded Little Cayman Customer Service Centre 15th December 2011 with a ribboncutting ceremony coupled with a Customer Appreciation day for its customers. The ceremony was kicked off by the students of the Little Cayman School singing Christmas carols.

The expanded Customer Service Centre now hosts a new ATM, a first in Little Cayman. With operation hours of Monday and Thursday 9:30am – 2:30pm, the ATM allows customers to complete their banking transactions outside of banking hours. The new space is now larger providing customers more privacy while conducting their banking transactions.

The new service centre, ATM and the new Cayman National 2012 calendar were well received by all in attendance.

In his opening remarks, Cayman National Bank Executive Vice President, Brian Esau said: “Cayman National is pleased to again bring banking to our clients.

Just over a year ago we expanded our premises in West Bay, and today we are happy to see the completion of this project in Little Cayman which also now houses an ATM to better serve our customers.

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Cayman National Bank Executive Vice President, Mr. Brian Esau, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cayman National Corporation (CNC), Mr. Truman Bodden, and Manager of the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Customer Service Centres, Mrs. Zanda Scott cuts the ribbon to mark the official opening of the expanded Little Cayman Customer Service Centre, while Blossom Village Landlord, Mr. Kyle Hooker, Pastor of the Little Cayman Baptist Church, Reverend James Barron look on.

As the only local and community retail bank in the Cayman Islands, we understand that our responsibility must go beyond ‘doing business’ to partnering with our clients to achieve their financial success and the socio-economic development of our country. This grand opening speaks to continued growth of Cayman National and our dedication to our customers and the greater community.”

A moment of silence was held for the late Mr. Linton Tibbetts who was instrumental in the expansion of the Customer Service Centre.

Mr. Kyle Hooker spoke on behalf of the Tibbetts family who were happy to see the partnership with Cayman National come to fruition with benefits accruing to the island as a whole. Reverend James Barron of the Little Cayman Baptist Church blessed the Customer Service Centre and its dedicated staff. The ceremony ended with a ribboncutting by Mrs. Zanda Scott, Manager of the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Customer Service Centres and Mr. Truman Bodden, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cayman National Corporation. to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

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Simpson Miller sworn in 2nd time as Jamaica PM

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, right, holds hands with political rival and former Primer Minister Andrew Holness

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Portia Simpson Miller was sworn in for the second time as Jamaica’s prime minister Thursday, pledging to ease its deep poverty, boost the sputtering economy, heal political divisions and sever colonial-era links with Britain.

Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush was present at Thursday’s ceremony.

Simpson Miller, whose 1½-yearlong first stint in office ended in 2007, took the oath of office before roughly 10,000 guests on the grounds of the rambling, colonial-style mansion that is the official residence of the governor-general.

The 66-year-old politician scored a dramatic victory in last week’s national elections, leading her slightly leftleaning People’s National Party to a 2-to-1 margin in Parliament over the center-right Jamaica Labor Party. Her opposition faction won a dominating 42 seats in the 63-seat legislature, leaving the incumbent party with 21.

The plainspoken, charismatic Simpson Miller, this Caribbean island’s first female prime minister, takes over from Andrew Holness, a 39-year-old Labor lawmaker who was leader for just over two months.

“After being tested and tempered, I stand before you today a stronger and better person prepared to be of service to my country and people,” Simpson Miller said at the start of a spirited 45-minute speech.

She said her government intends to abandon the British monarch as Jamaica’s official head of state, and to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

instead adopt a republican form of government. Jamaica declared independence from Britain in 1962 but remains within the Commonwealth and has Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.

“I love the queen; she is a beautiful lady,” Simpson Miller quipped, before speaking to the audience in Jamaican patois: “But I think time come.”

Simpson Miller also said she will replace the Privy Council in London with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice as Jamaica’s highest court of appeal. She said this will “end judicial surveillance from London.”

She vowed her government will “ease the burdens and the pressues of increasing poverty, joblessness and deteriorating standards of living” while also pursuing a tight fiscal policy and forging strong partnerships with the private sector and international partners such as the International Monetary Fund.

“My administration will work tirelessly that while we try to balance the books we balance people’s lives as well,” Simpson Miller said.

Jamaica is a cash-strapped island with a punishing debt of roughly $18.6 billion, or 130 percent of gross domestic product.

In the short- and medium-term, the prime minister said her administration will use “state resources” to stimulate jobs through the Jamaica Emergency Employment Program, a centerpiece of her party’s campaign manifesto.

Her People’s National Party said

it will try to renegotiate roughly 25 percent of a troubled $400 million road program financed by China in order to transfer some of the money to the emergency employment program as a way to kickstart the economy.

The prime minister also urged Jamaicans to create a more civil and respectful society and earnestly strive to make the best of themselves.

“We will seek to make this country one of brothers and sisters, not of rivals and victims,” she said.

After her speech, Simpson Miller elicited laughter from the audience by dragging a slightly embarrassedlooking Holness, now the leader of the opposition, to the podium and saying she was his “second mother.”

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Winter a tough time for Florida tropical fish farmers LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — It’s a tense time at Imperial Tropicals, one of central Florida’s largest ornamental fish farms.

It will be days, if not weeks, before farmer Fran Drawdy discovers how the recent cold snap will affect her fish.

Her millions of platies, mollies and guppies in outdoor ponds could die quickly from the drastic temperature change — it went from 80 degrees on Christmas to 20 degrees two weeks later — or they could fall sick and linger from stress or a fungus.

Almost all the nation’s domesticallyraised tropical and ornamental

fish come from Florida, and when cold weather strikes the results can be devastating.

“We have tremendous challenges with the cold,” said Drawdy, who has owned the central Florida farm with her family for 40 years. “Our prayer was that we wouldn’t face that this year. We were just really starting to recover.”

Drawdy is referring to 2010, when many Florida ornamental fish farmers lost between 80 and 100 percent of their stock. That year, temperatures stayed below 50 for 11 days straight in January and then another cold snap in December struck the area.

“The last three winters in a row it seems like we have been just clobbered,” said David Boozer, executive director of the Florida Tropical Fish Farms Association, a group that counts 231 farmers as members.

Philippines to shut some mines after landslide MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government on Friday ordered the shutdown of gold-mining tunnels threatened by landslides in a southern town where a chunk of a mountain tumbled down on sleeping residents, killing at least 27 people.

The landslide struck hours before dawn Thursday on a mountain dotted with mine shafts and crude shanties with corrugated metal roofs in Napnapan village in Compostela Valley province.

It was the area’s second deadly landslide in a year — 20 people were killed in a neighboring village last April

— and prompted the environment secretary to call for curbing permits in the region’s small-scale goldmining industry.

Authorities in Pantukan township, where Napnapan village is located, expect to complete a survey next week that will indicate where landslides are likely to happen. Mines that sit in the danger zone will be ordered shut, and the workers and their families living on the mountain will be relocated, said Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo.

Robredo, who flew over the village in a military helicopter Friday, also ordered that gold ore processing be

moved from Napnapan village to the town center so that the miners’ families don’t have to live with them near the mines.

“It will be more expensive, but it will be more safe,” he said. “I am sure there will be resistance — that’s why this will be enforced by the armed forces and the police.”

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Utah officer died pursuing his dream OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah police officer who died in a shootout that wounded five colleagues and the suspect had long-dreamed of a life in law enforcement, despite the risks of the job, family members said.

Ogden officer Jared Francom (pictured) died early Thursday at a hospital, hours after he and a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, redbrick Ogden house to serve a search warrant in a drug investigation.

When no one responded, the officers burst inside only to meet a hail of gunfire, authorities say.

“Jared died doing what he loved,” to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

brother Travis Francom said. “He worried at times, for his safety. I don’t think so much for himself, but for his family, his two little girls and his wife ... but I don’t think he was ever afraid.”

When it was over Wednesday night, a seven-year veteran officer was dead and five other officers were injured, some critically. The suspect, an Army veteran whose estranged father said suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have been self-medicating with marijuana, was injured.

Now, as the city tries to grapple with the outburst of violence and the loss of one of its officers, investigators are

trying to determine how the raid as part of a drug investigation could have gone so terribly wrong.

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The Editor Speaks Business woes, Red Bay, East End and the fab five plus 1

Colin Wilson

I was not surprised to hear colin.wilson@ieyenews.com that local businesses and retailers were generally reporting a woeful Christmas and some believe that unless the economy picks up they may fold. However, I am convinced 2012 will see an upswing and the Government does seem to be trying very hard to get at least one of their major projects started. Whilst fully understanding worried people’s suspicions and quite justifiable concerns over everyone of them, we are at a time when we have to take the gamble. ‘A bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush’ (pun not intended) and if we delay much longer not one will take place. The Cayman Islands will be left way behind and we really will be just a small dot on the map and an insignificant one at that. We are in a recession and sometimes good intentions lets the bird fly away to another destination before everyone realises it is too late to bring him back.

Some politicians and a lot of the general public shout for a balanced budget. That is impossible in a recession and trying to achieve that is self-defeating. A deficit has to increase during a recession because Government revenues decline. Government deficit spending to make up for the decline in investment spending reduces the fall in demand, and monetary policy that makes interest rates low and credit available encourages investment spending to resume. With just one of the major projects commencing it provides jobs and people will spend money. Come on everyone wake up to the reality of our situation.

Having said this one area in our service industry really does need waking up. Manners in our service outlets is often just appalling. I have spoken on this subject before and there have been many blogs on the subject. Take this as an example. The other day my wife (Joan) had to go to a George Town fast food restaurant to get lunch for her grandchild who was at school in Red Bay. She was very explicit when she placed the order and it was busy. She was in a hurry and did not check what had been given to her. Yes, her mistake, too. She drives to Red Bay and upon handing

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the lunch to her grandchild finds it is very wrong. The grandchild is distressed and gives the food away to some of her friends. Joan drives back and revisits the restaurant and complains. The manager says to her, “What do you expect me to do about it?” No apology, just rudeness.

Talking of Red Bay, the local group of sea captains that are promoting the idea of developing the cruise berthing facilities in the South Sound-Red Bay area have taken up advice and have sent their proposals to the major cruise lines and the Florida Cruise Association. I am still not convinced bussing cruise passengers from Red Bay will produce the same revenues as a George Town berthing dock. I am basing this on facts from other destinations – the walk off straight to the shops and the transported ones to the shops. The former wins.

Interestingly, Joan was going through a “1992 Cayman Islands Yearbook” and found this entry under June 1991: “Red Bay residents are ‘outraged’ by a proposed port facility that would make Cayman a cruise ship turnaround base.”

What do they think of the Captains’ proposal now in 2012?

It was nice to hear about a proposed major expansion to the Morritt’s timeshare and resort facility in East End. Morritts Tortuga Club and Moritt’s Grand Resort developers’ announced an anticpated investment of over US$70 million over the next 5 to 10 years. The developers anticipated starting construction on the first phase by June this year.

The fab five in my heading are the ‘anonymous’ five members of a delegation that accompanied Premier McKeeva Bush who attended the swearing in ceremony in Jamaica of its new prime-minister Portia SimpsonMiller last Thursday (5). We have to date not received any details who the five are although we do know one of them is George Town MLA Ellio Solomon, although we understand he is there mainly for talks with China Harbour Engineering Company.

It is nice to have a more upbeat editorial today with some positive announcements and I haven’t even mentioned the Shetty Hospital project. Watch this space.

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since September 2010. She has been appointed on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission and will formally take up the post on 16 April 2012. This is the second time that the appointment of a Magistrate to the Summary Court has been made by the Governor following

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Prior to her current appointment in Bermuda, Mrs. Gunn served for a period of four and a half years as a Crown Counsel in the Cayman Islands.

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Community coordinator says farewell CAYMAN ISLANDS (GIS) — After 26 years as a public servant, the time has come to say goodbye. Community Development Co-ordinator Zemrie Thompson, MBE announced her retirement from the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), effective 1 January 2012.

Having worked with the Department of Immigration, the Department of Education and DCFS, the retiree paid her dues to Government and the people of the Cayman Islands.

While many were asleep at night, Ms. Thompson spent hours brainstorming and creating programmes that would improve individuals and the communities they live in.

In the past four years, Ms. Thompson headed various projects.

In 2008, she created the SET For Life afterschool programme. SET -Socialising Education and Training -- aims to help children complete homework and enhance their learning abilities. The initiative also offers hands-on training for various vocational fields.

During this time, she also formed computer classes for seniors, arranged private sponsorship for students who were in need of school supplies and lunch, and led the Second Chance Programme which aims to help troubled children turn their lives around.

One of her joys has been working with elderly people. She is a member

of the Older Persons International Committee and began a Senior Retreat in 2002 which is now an annual event.

Minister of Community Affairs, Gender and Housing, the Hon. Mike Adam, MBE, JP, said, “Ms. Thompson is an outstanding public servant who consistently provided an invaluable service to the people of the Cayman Islands”.

Despite her work schedule, Ms. Thompson managed to find time to organize weddings, officiating as Minister and creating invitations and other decorations. She also helps out with Vocational Bible Studies at Agape Church and plays a role in community groups, particularly the Scranton community.

She recently returned from a mission trip to Jamaica. Having first organized sponsorship, Ms. Thompson carried donations to the needy. The long serving Coordinator said, “Personal satisfaction and praise is not about the recognition and awards, it’s about the reward you get from helping others.”

DCFS Acting Director Alicia (Jen) Dixon said, “I thank Ms. Thompson for her outstanding contribution to the department and to our community.

Her years of tireless dedication and community leadership have made her the ideal example for others to follow.

She is going to be deeply missed. We wish her all the best for the future!”

Following retirement, Ms.

Thompson intends to continue to be a devoted mother, an active Minister of her church, a philanthropist and role model. “It has been a wonderful journey to serve the Cayman Islands Government and although I look forward to retirement, I leave with joy and a source of great pride,” she said.

“I am confident knowing that DCFS has a strong and positive future as it continues to deliver remarkable service to children and families in our community,” Ms. Thompson added.

“Thanks to all the people who have contributed to community development which helped make my job easier. Also, I will forever be grateful for the support of my fellow staff members as their encouragement contributed to my level of commitment.”

Energising after-school activities The week starting Monday, 9 January 2012, GIS Spotlight revisits children engaging in wholesome activities, reviews rehabilitation and re-scans the night sky.

First, we transport you to energising after-school activities for children featuring sports, performing arts and hands-on lessons that are invaluable, fun and healthy. See 800 students burn energy aiming to become fitter and better use their after-school hours.

Find out how you can volunteer in this public-private sector programme and influence a young person’s life for the better. to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

Then, it’s off to a workshop that kicked-off a national strategy. Hear from experts the new techniques being used to evaluate offenders’ rehabilitation against the backdrop of the national crime prevention strategy.

Learn about input from practitioners of a top-notch Canadian programme.

Next, join us to see how you too can be inspired by the stars. Visit the University College of the Cayman Islands and hear about plans to build a home for a donated telescope, Also learn what is planned in science and astronomy lessons for students and the whole community to maximise

the use of the state-of-the-art telescope.

Produced by Government Information Services, GIS Spotlight highlights government services and solutions regarding issues that concern and affect you.

The weekly programme now airs on Cayman27 at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, and 7.30 p.m. on Thursdays. All stories seen in this week’s show can also be found on the GIS Marketing and Communications website: www.gis.ky.

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Hundreds of family members and friends came to see seventy-three students from the International College of the Cayman Islands (ICCI) graduate at the Family Life Centre in George Town.

The graduates, many of whom had juggled full-time jobs with family commitments while attending school, received degrees at the associates, bachelors and masters level. Nine received a masters degree in Business Administration, three received a masters degree in human Resources, 23 received bachelors degrees, and 39 associate degrees.

In his keynote speech, Canover Watson, Managing Director of Admiral Administration Ltd, spoke about the increasingly competitive, globalised jobs marketplace: “As Cayman connects with the outside world, our young people must be prepared to work alongside not

Kadian Smith Taylor receives the Ernst & Young 2011 Achievement Award for Academic Excellence

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just people here in Cayman, but they must be prepared to work with people from all over the world,” “As a result more jobs are going to require a college education or some kind of technical skills because the reality of globalisation is that our young people do not only have to be the best at what you do in Cayman, but they have to be the best at what you do in the entire world.”

International College student speaker, Kadian Taylor, who received a bachelors degree in International Finance said: “We won’t always know what career path to choose or where we go from here. But if we stay away from the career paths we don’t want or stay way from those things we don’t like, we will be just fine. We might even surprise ourselves having discovered that by staying away from what we do not want, we arrive at where we needed to be.”

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The Cayman Islands Brewery presented a $3,306 cheque to the Department of the Environment (DoE) on Wednesday night, supporting a three-year project to survey and manage Cayman’s shark and dolphin population.

The donation came as the fulfillment of the brewery’s pledge to donate 5¢ to the department’s preservation project from the sale of 66,123 cans of its new White Tip Lager, launched in July.

At a Marriott Beach Resort ceremony on Wednesday, Director of the Environment Gina Ebanks-Petrie Dr Mauvis Gore and Oliver Dubock putting the satellite tag on Tina the Tiger Shark unveiled preliminary results of the by nurse and coral reef sharks, and a in future. preservation project By contrast, the “consumptive value” “The department understands sprinkling of tigers, hammerheads and of sharks, he said, was “well under the great importance of sharks and white tips.

Globally, she said, between 26 “US$10,000 per year”. dolphins to the environment and Dr Ormond recommended five the diversity and abundance of all million and 73 million sharks were marine mammals,” she said, thanking caught annually, most to supply the options to local government for sponsors Guy Harvey, Caybrew “huge Asian fin market”, then thrown preservation of sharks and dolphins, and the UK’s Overseas Territories back to drown. At least 26 species including full protection in all territorial ware threatened with extinction waters, expansion of Cayman’s tooEnvironment project.

Dr Mauvis Gore, one of three leaders in the next five years, she told the small marine parks, ”catch-andrelease” laws for the fishing industry, a of the survey and a prime researcher 50-member audience.

A second researcher, the University ban on “finning” and a regulatory code in at least four international marineconservation projects, summarised of Edinbugh’s Rupert Ormond pegged mandating sustainable tourism.

“Australia, New Zealand, South the annual economic value of the some of the DoE findings.

“Most sharks stay well offshore and Cayman’s shark population between Africa and parts of the US have are found between Little Cayman US$1.2 million and $1.75 million protected their shark species,” he and Cayman Brac,” she said, pointing -- and dolphins at $1.1 million -- in said, while Florida recently moved at approximately 12 shark and four watersports and tourism, figures likely to give “full protection” to tiger and stingray species in the area, dominated to rise to at least US$16 million for both hammerhead sharks.

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leader Hon. Alden McLaughlin and Governor H.E. Duncan Taylor, all gave Constitution Day speeches.

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Chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange, Anthony Travers, hit back at claims the jurisdiction was losing business to Singapore. iLocal

islands was scheduled to be completed by fall quarter.

REDJet, the Barbados discount airline announced its regional expansion plans could include the Cayman Islands.

There was a rise of 19% in the number of people claiming benefits during the past year, the Government announced.

“A piece of me has died as well”

A man, Kemar Golding, lost his sight in one eye after being shot in the face at close range during a botched armed robbery at a jerk chicken store in Red Bay close to the Prospect Playhouse.

Three masked men held up the man demanding cash but he told them he had none and was only helping his friend clean up. He was then shot.

The Cayman Islands delegation at the 2011 Island Games achieved a highly respectable total of 23 medals – 8 gold, 7 silver, and 8 bronze in five different disciplines.

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Richard Williams was named High Court Justice in place of Priya Levers.

WHERE FINE FOOD IS MATCHED Premier McKeeva Bush BY asked BEAUTIFUL government lawyers to answer SCENERY statements made by Miami based construction giant GLF had thought on thewho waterfront located on the edge on the they were going to construct work the expansion to the GeorgeofTown port. The CEO and presidentCaribbean of GLF saidSea the local officials had made “a serious breach of contractual relationship.”

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Two thieves armed with a machete and baseball bat robbed Royal Palms bar Castro after Sunday’s bee attack and restaurant on the Seven Mile Beach.

Team of Chefs left and Castro before the attack It was then the insects turned onbees Ms Killer stung to death twoOz,dogs will tantalize your Paddyfoote – and began to attack her Serious crime was down toasathey minimum at a property on Shetland Lane, West Both mental and domestic asviolence she fled into her landlord’s house. taste buds “I was frantic. I was hollering and create your delicious in West Bay making it the safest place to Bay and then attacked the dogs owner, courts, although only operating for screaming,” she said. “I just wanted to and memorable to my animals but couldn’t. In the entrees, Ebanks such as our during live said Inspector Brad Letitia Paddyfoote, who managed to flee less than a year has had get startling end we ran into my landlords house took shelter inside. a gun amnesty meeting in the District. into her landlord’s house. success said Chief Magistrate and Margaret BASIL & PISTACHIO “We were all prisoners inside Ramsay-Hale. The cost of operating the CRUSTED SEA BASS their house. We were trapped and needed to be rescued so I called the two courts is a lot less than housing an CrimesStoppers and Cayman Islands Governor Duncan Taylor was expected Fire Brigade.”

THE WHARF would evenasleep in my bed with to the propertyoffered Premier McKeeva reward of me. $10,000 to decide ona call by inmate at Northward prison. Firefighters came Brewery IS LOCATED ON “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get on Shetland Lane, West Bay, but they Bush to convene a Commission of to catch the gunman who shot Kemar too were beaten back by the swarm over what has happened.”

THE BEGINNING OF Yesterday police confirmed they of bees.

SEVEN MILE BEACH Inquiry to examine the construction of Golding during the botched jerk chicken The Building Materials “I justDuty wanted to get to my dogs are investigating the incident. A spokeswoman for the RCIPS said: but I was told theystand were already Cayman’s new high schools. robbery in Red Bay. Later at a Concessions was extended until 31st dead,” she said. “Even one of the “We can confirm that police are investigating an incident two firefighters was stungfundraiser by them and so organised by thewhere brewery an December 2011 in an effort to stimulate dogs were killed by bees, in Shetland was my landlady.”

Deputy Governor, Donovan Ebanks, extra $7,000 was raised to benefit Mr. economic activity.

The owner of the bees was Lane, West Bay on Sunday 3 July.

“Police initially received the report eventually contacted and he killed the announced that Government would by Golding in his recuperation and hospital Tel: 949-2231 around 2.30 pm on Sunday and, as insects involved in the attack.

When Ms Paddyfoote spoke with a result of the incident, the owner the end of the year create a plan to save treatment. the beekeeper he apologised and told of the bees, who resides in Sunny millions of dollars wasted through out of her to “do whatever she needed to do”. Powery Drive, destroyed them.

“Police enquiries are ongoing.”

She added: “I understand the control spending.

The Cayman Islands is the 15th best WINE Ms Paddyfoote added: “I cared importance of bees in nature and I much honeymooners about Castro and Oz. Theyin the Letitia with Castro understand they create life and play a sofor destination SPECTATOR meant everything to me. very important role. repeated bee stings.

“I feel ato little of me died on The Cayman Islands Red Cross world according apiece survey conducted “But my two dogs are dead because And a man also died when he AWARD of them. They meant everything to Sunday along with them.” disturbed a nest carrying out work on Management and Hazard Cayman by Brides Magazine.

Several months ago another dog me. I would take them out all the a property.

2010 time and I loved them that much they in the West Bay area was killed by have merged their major disaster 6 6 July 2011response teams.

Six awards were handed out at The preparedness Rotoract Blue Cayman islands fourth UDP MLA Hon. Rolstin Anglin, annual Open Arms Award ceremony Whitney General, a 19 year old Minister of Education, dismissed the held at Ristorante Pappagallo in West Caymanian, won three prestigious awards at the Cayman Prep and is march on the Legislative Assembly Bay. leaving the Islands in September to building organised by the opposition and other smaller groups against the Only five people turned up at a public attend Sheffield University in England.

Government’s proposed developments. meeting to talk about gun crime Dart Group joined with community “One hundred and fifty people,” he said, “ organised by the RCIPS. leaders in the Washington Boulevard is no indication the people have spoken.”

The new business building at the area of George Town to refurbish the Hon. Rolston Anglin Premier McKeeva Bush, Opposition International College of the Cayman Neils Godfrey Park.

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iCommunity Events CHAMBER’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING CENTRE: Service Matters! - 11 January 2012 The New Supervisor - 17 January 2012 Leadership Development - 19 January 2012 CEO Workshop (Managing the Energy) - 24 January 2012 Grievance Handling - 26 January 2012 The Exceptional Presenter - 27 January 2012 Three Cs: Capability, Conduct, Compliance - 31 January 2012 CHAMBER CAREERS, EDUCATION, TRAINING & JOBS EXPO 2012: Will be held on February 3, 2012 at the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) at168 Olympic Way. For further details, visit www.caymanchamber.ky CAYMAN HOCKEY FIGHTS CANCER: The Cayman Islands Youth Roller Hockey Club will take to the streets for its second annual street hockey tournament. This year, all funds raised will go to Cayman HospiceCare and Unicef Cayman Kids. There will be Mites, Novice, Atom and PeeWee divisions, as well as an all age’s girls’ division and the popular Moms’ division. One member of each team must be new to the sport – so encourage friends or classmates to try a new sport in aid of a great cause! Registration forms are available at Kings Sports Centre or online at www.caymanactive.com.

Players must sign up as a team of four and registration is CI$100.

Saturday 14 January 9am5pm, Camana Bay Arts and Recreation Centre STORY & CRAFT TIME: For young readers, join Books & Books every Saturday at 10:30am to read exciting new books and explore your creative side with a unique craft each week. Every Saturday at 10:30am, Books & Books Saturday 7 January: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss The Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Will Grace, Saturday 14 January: Saturday 21 January: Saturday 28 January: Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers Stars by Mary Lyn Ray Buble-Ardy

by Maurice Sendak Hogwash by Karma Wilson Hippo Goes Bananas

by Marjorie Dennis Murray The Hiccupotamus by Aaron Zenz UNITED CHURCH IN JAMAICA & THE CAYMAN ISLANDS: George Town – Elmslie Memorial Church, Robert Young, and George Hicks. West Bay - John Gray. Bodden Town – Webster.

North Side – William Pouchie. East End, Gun Bay & Savannah – United Church. Call Council Office and Prospect Youth & Conference Centre 947-1963. Elmslie Church office 949-7923 Weekly Activities: Sunday 9:00am Worship Service & Sunday school, George Hicks United Church 9:00am Worship Service, Robert Young United Church, Crewe Road

10:30am Worship Service & Sunday school, Elmslie United Church, Harbour Drive 7:00pm Worship Service, Elmslie United Church Monday 4:30pm Cub Scouts (6-11 yrs. of age) Tuesday 7:30pm Women’s Fellowship (3rd Tuesday of each month) 7:30pm Prayer Meeting Wednesday 5:30pm Girls’ Brigade (Juniors, ages 8-11 yrs. & Seniors ages 11-15 yrs.) 5:30pm Girls’ Brigade (Explorers, ages 5-8 yrs.) 7:00pm Bible Study, George Hicks United Church 5:30pm Girls’ Brigade (Brigades, ages 15-18 yrs.)

Thursday 6:30-7:30pm Pre-teen activities 6:00pm 7:00pm Praise Team practice Church Choir practice (Adults) Friday 8:00pm Youth Fellowship Saturday 7:30am Men’s Fellowship Breakfast (1st Saturday of every month) 7:00am Prayer meeting at Elmslie Church Sanctuary

church Adults Thu 5:30pm Junior Sat 5 -7:30pm Youth Fellowship (AYF) Sat 5 – 7pm.

Knights of St George (male & female) Sun 8am Contact church office 949-5583

JOHN GRAY MEMORIAL CHURCH CHOIR: will give an encore presentation of the Cantata, “Down from His Glory” on Sunday, January 8th at 7pm

OVERCOMERS OUTREACH: Is Christ-centered 12 Step Recovery Group addressing addictions and those affected by them, bridging the gap between 12-Step groups and churches. Weekly meetings at CI Baptist Church, 163 Pedro Castle Road Savannah, Mondays, 7pm. For more details contact Virginia Castillo at 946-2422 or visit www.overcomersoutreach.org

SUNRISE COMMUNITY CHURCH: Meets at the Harquail Theatre at 10am for biblical, relevant preaching and contemporary worship. Nursery ministry, children’s church and the Explorers are age’s infant-11 and also meet at 10am. Community groups meet throughout the week for fellowship and. www.sunrise.ky SAFE HARBOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH: Grand Cayman, invites everyone to Sunday worship services at 10am at the Ritz-Carlton for additional information, contact Rev. Ed Auger at 926-5491, www.safeharbourlc.com FRANK SOUND CHURCH OF GOD: Meets on Sunday at 10.30am and 6.30pm Children church 10.30am Bible studies Wednesday, 7.30pm.

Youth Group Friday at 7.30pm HOLY TEMPLE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH: Sunday’s Bible class 1011am, Service 11am-1.30pm, Night Service 7.30-9.30pm, Wednesdays, Night Service 7.30-9.30pm Friday’s Youth Service 7.30-9.30pm. 59 Seymour Drive, George Town.

All are invited. Contact Elder Vincent Mattocks, 939-1902 CHURCH OF GOD CHAPEL: Academy Way, Walkers Road. Services Sun 9am and 10:30am Contact 949-9393 ST GEORGE’S ANGLICAN (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH: Courts Road, Eastern Av. Mass: Sun 7am and 11am, Wed 7:30am Feast & Saint Days 7:30am. Sunday School Sun. 9am. Choir Practice at the

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- MIDDAY PRAYERS St. Alban’s Church Red Letter Weekdays 5.00 p.m. – HOLY COMMUNION St. Alban’s Church. For further details see www. churchofenglandcayman.com

CAYMAN ISLANDS BAPTIST CHURCH: Holds services Pedro Castle Road, Savannah, 9am Sunday School, 10am Worship Service: Child Care for Babies & Preschoolers; Children’s Church. Family LIFE 6.30 to 7.30pm Wednesday; Youth Nite 7 to 9pm Friday for middle & high school students. For Bible studies and other activities, contact 946-2422 cibaptist@ candw.ky Pastor Randy Von Kanel 926-2422 pastorrandy@candw.ky www.caymanislandsbaptistchurch.ky

medical knowledge and answer your parenting questions. Every Wednesday plus the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month at 10:30am, Books & Books STORY TIME: For our youngest readers, join Books & Books every Wednesday at 10:30am to read exciting new books and sing along to your children’s favorites songs. Every Wednesday at 10:30am, Books & Books CAYMAN COOKOUT ULTIMATE DINNER PARTY: As part of the Cayman Cookout weekend, the Ultimate Dinner Party at Camana Bay features five unique experiences in one unforgettable night. The fun begins in Cassia Court when the bad boy of cuisine Anthony Bourdain and master sommelier Andrea Robinson join Camana Bay’s very own James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schwartz to share stories and sign copies of their latest books. The party continues with refreshing libations and live vibes from Gary Ebanks and Devon Edie followed by dinner at one of Camana Bay’s restaurants—Abacus, Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink or Ortanique.

The night will come to a sweet end with delectable desserts from celebrated pastry chef Francois Payard and winner of Top Chef Just Desserts 2 Chris Hanmer, accompanied by live music from Swanky Kitchen Band.

Saturday 14 January 6pm-12am, Camana Bay Town Centre WEEKLY FARMERS MARKET: Real Food, Real Farmers, And Real Community! Get a real taste of Cayman every Wednesday when vendors from across the island sell fresh produce, hot food, handmade crafts and more at Camana Bay. Enjoy the satisfaction of buying fresh and supporting local merchants. The stalls are set up on the corner of Forum Lane and Market Street across from Digicel and Mail Boxes Etc. Every Wednesday 12-7pm, corner of Forum Lane and Market Street

CAMANA BAY EVENTS: CARIBBEAN READING CLUB: Join the Caribbean Reading Club at Books & Books to review the group’s latest pick Stella by Siegfried Lenz. Come share your insights and impressions in an open discussion. The Caribbean Reading Club is free to join and its meetings, held on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm, are open to the public. New members are always welcome.

Wednesday 11 January 7:30pm, Books & Books 10 MINUTES WITH DR. JAMES: Every Wednesday before Story Time and on the first and third Saturday of the month before Story & Craft Time, Dr. James Robertson, pediatrician at Trincay Medical Services in Camana Bay, visits Books & Books to share his

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Mayweather due to serve 90 days in jail in Vegas LAS VEGAS (AP) — Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is due Friday to begin serving 90 days in a county jail in Las Vegas for his guilty plea in a domestic violence case involving an attack on his ex-girlfriend while two of their children watched in September 2010.

A judge last month ordered the undefeated 34-year-old prizefighter to turn himself in for a three-month sentence that Las Vegas police say could end up being about 60 days with good behavior and work time.

Mayweather’s lawyers, his promoter-manager, Leonard Ellerbe, and court and jail officials didn’t say Thursday what, if any, arrangements had been made for the surrender of the fighter who goes by the nickname “Money.” He has earned upwards of $20 million for his most recent fights against Victor Ortiz, which won him the WBC welterweight belt, and “Sugar” Shane Mosley.

Attorney Karen Winckler has

said she was considering asking the judge who sentenced Mayweather to reconsider.

Jail time is expected to limit training for a possible Cinco de Mayo date for a fight in Las Vegas, where Mayweather’s promoters reserved a May 5 date at the MGM Grand Garden Arena for a possible fight against an as-yet unnamed opponent.

There has been no word from Mayweather’s either camp about any proposals for a long-awaited showdown between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, a champion fighter from the Philippines against whom Mayweather’s welterweight success is usually measured. The two men have a defamation lawsuit pending in Las Vegas federal court stemming from statements by Mayweather that he suspected Pacquiao was taking performance-enhancing drugs.

Mayweather pleaded guilty Dec. 21 to a reduced battery domestic

violence charge and no contest to two harassment charges in a plea deal that saw prosecutors drop felony and misdemeanor charges that could have gotten Mayweather 34 years in state prison if he was convicted of all charges.

The case stemmed from a hairpulling, punching and arm-twisting argument with Josie Harris, the mother of three of Mayweather’s children, and threats to beat their sons in an argument about Harris dating another man. Harris, now 31, lives in the Los Angeles area with the couple’s two sons, now 12 and 10, and a daughter age 8.

Clijsters injured, retires in Brisbane semifinals BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters became the second top contender for the year’s first major to suffer an injury setback when she retired Friday from her Brisbane International semifinal against Daniela Hantuchova.

Clijsters (pictured) won the opening set 7-6 (4), but surrendered a break at the start of the second set and needed treatment after the third game. She came back on court for one game before walking to the net and telling Hantuchova she couldn’t continue after falling behind 3-1.

Hantuchova has had an abbreviated run into Saturday’s final, getting a walkover in the quarterfinals when 13-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams withdrew from the tournament after injuring her left ankle while winning a secondround match.

No. 24-ranked Hantuchova will be aiming for her fifth WTA Tour title when she plays No. 34-ranked Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, who took less than an hour to beat 2010 French Open

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winner Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-3, 6-0 in the other semifinal. The third-seeded Schiavone complained of a stomach upset after the match.

Both Clijsters and Williams, the 2010 Australian Open champion, were playing their first tournaments in four months.

The top two seeded players tumbled early in the women’s draw, with U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur ousted in the second round and No. 2 Andrea Petkovic losing to Kanepi in the quarterfinals.

Clijsters struggled with injuries last season and only played eight tournaments, including the win at the Australian Open that helped her return to the No. 1 ranking for one week.

The Brisbane International was her first tournament since an abdominal injury ended her season in September and the latest setback casts doubt on her ability to defend her title at the first major of 2012. The Australian Open starts on Jan. 16 in Melbourne.

Meanwhile Roger Federer has pulled out of his semifinal match

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against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Qatar Open because of a back injury.

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A new season starts on the PGA Tour KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — One par was worth two trophies. One tournament paid Bill Haas just over $11.4 million.

He starts over with a clean slate Friday at the Tournament of Champions, with one less perk than the other winners from last season.

Haas won the Tour Championship, the one PGA Tour event in which the winner is not guaranteed a chance to defend his title.

Haas will have to play well over the next eight months, then work his way through the FedEx Cup playoffs and be among the top 30 players who get to East Lake for a shot at the $10 million bonus.

“The goal is to be consistent and try to get back to the Tour Championship to give myself that chance to defend,” he said Thursday. “If I don’t defend, hopefully it’s because I finish 31st and my year was still somewhat successful.

“We’ll just see how I’m feeling about that in October.”

That seems like such a long way off. There are still four majors ahead of him, including a return to The Olympic Club in San Francisco for the U.S. Open, and to Royal Lytham & St. Annes for the British Open. There is that huge incentive of making the Ryder Cup team; Haas played his first team event two months ago at Royal Melbourne in the Presidents Cup. It’s a lot to digest. And there’s a lot of competition.

Even though 11 players decided not to play — or because of injuries, could not play — in the winnersonly tournament that kicks off the new season, all anyone has to do is look around at some of the new faces.

Twelve players in the 28-man field are at Kapalua for the first time. Nine of the players are in their 20s.

“Right now it seems that young is good,” said Steve Stricker, who turns 45 next month.

Stricker is making his fourth consecutive trip to Maui, the longest streak of any player in the field. It’s a familiar start to the season. Not so familiar are some of the guys he’ll be trying to beat. A year ago Stricker didn’t know who some of them were.

Keegan Bradley? He was known more as the nephew of LPGA great Pat Bradley until he won two times, including that unlikely comeback in Atlanta to capture the PGA Championship in his first try at a major.

Jhonattan Vegas was the first PGA Tour member from Venezuela.

Scott Stallings? Brendan Steele?

“I know them now a little bit,” Stricker said Thursday on the eve of the opening round.

The PGA Tour season gets under way Friday. It wants to get away from the NFL playoffs on Sunday, so the final round will end Monday just before the BCS Championship game starts.

Jonathan Byrd makes a birdie putt on the 13th green during the pro-am event

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K.J. Choi of South Korea hits from the first tee

The new faces at Kapalua are not the only difference.

Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods are no longer part of the top 10 in the world ranking. There are no Americans among the top five for the first time in nearly two decades. And even without the likes of U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy, Masters champion Charl Schwartzel or Martin Kaymer in Hawaii, the young guys are making a strong push.

“There’s been a transformation of players out here, and it was going to happen eventually,” said Stricker, who turns 45 next month.

“We saw Tiger and Phil slip out of the top 10, and we have some European players coming in there — young European players and young Americans — playing well and stepping right up early on in their careers. So it’s fun to see.”

Haas is among those players expected to take his game up another notch. He has known all along that it’s not easy to get to the next level, having Jay Haas as his father.

“I guess I knew going in ... obviously, I was a cocky young kid, but I knew how good everybody was,” he said. “I was playing with my dad on the weekend and getting beat every time. Inside, I knew I wasn’t quite good enough yet to be as cocky as I was. I got out on the Nationwide Tour, wanting to be out here, thinking I deserved to be out here.

“But I quickly learned you don’t deserve to be out here,” he said.

“You earn everything.”

And now, everyone starts at zero.

Stricker hopes he gets some advantage through his experience on the Plantation Course, unlike any other course on tour. It was built on a mountain, offering severe changes in elevation, massive greens with slope and grain, and uninterrupted views of the Pacific Ocean.

The surf has been particularly strong on Maui this week, and it creates quite the contrast. Players working their way along the back nine can look down the cliffs and see the ocean littered with surfers off the point at Honolua Bay. It’s relaxing, but it’s still work.

The winners get a small head start on the rest of the PGA Tour in a short field with no cut, essentially free money from the $5.6 million purse and a jump in the FedEx Cup standings.

It worked beautifully last year for Jonathan Byrd, who won his final event of 2010 to qualify for Kapalua, then opened his season with a playoff win over Robert Garrigus.

Byrd was walking through the Maui airport when he saw promotional posters of him on the wall. His son, Jackson, looked at the poster and said, “Dad, I think you’re famous.”

Byrd’s reply: “At least for this week I am.”

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The FA Cup - let the underdogs bite

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The FA Cup third round has a reputation for underdogs shocking the big boys and one of English football’s heavyweights is guaranteed to receive a knockout blow in this year’s competition.

For rivals Manchester City and Manchester United go head-to-head at the Etihad Stadium in the biggest tie of the round.

Elsewhere, there are several potential banana skins for Premier League sides this weekend.

The round began with Liverpool hosting League One side Oldham Athletic, who make the short journey along the East Lancs Road on Friday night, in the first meeting between the sides since 1994.

Ninety-five places separate Everton and non-league visitors Tamworth in the football standings with the Midlands club aiming to cause one of the competition’s biggest shocks at Goodison Park on Saturday.

Another Blue Square Premier side aiming to create history is Fleetwood Town, who were handed a dream

Tukka is! the island side of Cayman. home tie against Championship neighbours Blackpool.

Tony Pulis returns to former club Gillingham after the draw paired his Stoke City side with the League Two team. Pulis, who guided the Gills to promotion from the fourth tier in 1996, will go head-to-head with current Gills boss Andy Hessenthaler - who was brought to the Kent club as a player by the Welshman.

League One leaders Charlton are aiming to cause an upset when they travel across London to face Fulham at Craven Cottage.

Owen Coyle’s Bolton take a break from their Premier League relegation battle by making the short journey to League Two side Macclesfield without exit-bound defender Gary Cahill. Another lower league team targeting a top-flight scalp is League One promotion hopefuls MK Dons, who welcome Queens Park Rangers up the M1 to Buckinghamshire.

There is an all-Championship clash at the KC Stadium when Hull City looks to roar into the fourth round at the expense of Ipswich Town.

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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says there is “no need” for peace talks ahead of his team’s home clash with Liverpool on 11 February Liverpool want a board-level meeting with United to restore harmony following the Luis Suarez affair. But Ferguson said: “I do not see why there is any need for it.”

The Old Trafford match is likely to be Suarez’s first away match after his eight-game ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra.

The Uruguay striker faces severe treatment at Old Trafford and Liverpool want to reduce the offensive chants Suarez is likely to endure.

When questioned at the club’s press conference on Friday on reports that Liverpool would like peace talks, Ferguson said: “It is nice of them to do

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Luis Suarez clashes with Manchester United Patrice Evra

it through the press.

“You would have thought they would come to Manchester United first. I do not see why there is any need for it but I have nothing to say about it.”

Relations between the two clubs have been at a low ebb and, while accepting the punishment of Suarez, Liverpool were unhappy with the decision. After Suarez issued an

apology - though not to Evra - for any offence his use of the word “negro” may have caused, Liverpool want to build bridges with United but are continuing discussions with the FA over an investigation process they believe was flawed.

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Three Canadian bobsledders hurt in crash

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Three members of the Canadian bobsledding team were hospitalised Thursday after their sled slammed into the roof of the track during a training run.

The crash took place as the Canadian team was practicing for a World Cup event in Altenberg.

“I’ve never seen a sled so destroyed in one go in my 32 years in the sport,” coach Tom de la Hunty told The Associated Press by telephone from the team’s hotel.

He said pilot Chris Spring was taken to the University Clinic in Dresden to have a piece of wood removed from his lower back.

Pushman Bill Thomas was in another hospital in Dresden, and Graeme Rinholm was in a hospital in Pirna, closer to the track. A fourth member of the crew, Tim Randall, was not injured.

Thomas was under sedation and expected to “make a full recovery,” said de la Hunty, who did not have details on Rinholm’s injuries.

Although Randall was not injured, de la Hunty said he was in a “state of shock, really like all of us.”

De la Hunty said the “disastrous” crash took place in turn 16 of the track, often described as one of the most difficult in the world.

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over the course and came crashing back down, but never left the track.

“The entire front part of the sled came off and dragged through the sled with the athletes inside,” de la Hunty said.

The fourth World Cup stop of the season for bobsled and skeleton is scheduled to begin Friday in Altenberg, with men’s skeleton and women’s bobsledding competitions.

Saturday’s schedule includes women’s skeleton and 2-man bobsledding, followed by the 4-man bobsledding event Sunday.

The 27-year-old Spring was born in Australia and represented that country in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics before switching to the Canadian team after that season.

He applied for Canadian citizenship even before those Olympics formally ended, saying he was frustrated over the direction of the Australian program and what he described as a lack of funding. Australia pulled out of the four-man event in Vancouver after a series of crashes depleted the team’s roster and left two athletes with concussions.

It was at those Vancouver Games when safety again moved to the forefront of conversations about sliding sports. Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili crashed in a training run and died hours before the opening ceremony, his head

smashing into a metal beam after his body sailed over the track wall at nearly 90 mph when he lost control near the finish line.

Heavy snow fell in Altenberg for much of Thursday, and German officials released a statement in the morning saying the weather conditions forced the cancellation of that day’s scheduled skeleton training runs. In the same statement, they said a decision would be made later in the day about whether to allow bobsleds to take their practice runs.

By early afternoon, women’s bobsled training resumed with 12 sleds taking part. German officials later listed the men’s training for the day as “cancelled.”

“I’m sure the weather won’t impact us that much while we are here, or at least it won’t impact me,” Spring wrote on his blog Sunday. “Another new track and a tough one at that so I will be switched on for the best part of the week we are here and no doubt stressing out about all the little things us pilots like to worry about.”

Altenberg is notorious for being one of the most difficult tracks in the world to drive, and athletes for years have clamored for more practice time at the facility.

“The most technically difficult track on the circuit,” U.S. bobsled coach Brian Shimer once said of Altenberg, in former East Germany.

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We will not panic says Fergie

Paul Kennedy

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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson insists his side will not panic after a 3-0 defeat at Newcastle.

The loss was United’s second in five days, coming after their shock 3-2 home defeat against Blackburn.

“We have the experience to cope, we need to get the show on the road,” said Ferguson, whose side are three points behind leaders Manchester City.

“It’s not a time for panic. Losing a game at this time of the year can sometimes happen.”

The Scot conceded that City were now in the driving seat at the top of the Premier League. Roberto Mancini’s side moved to 48 points after their 3-0 win over Liverpool on Tuesday.

“Advantage to them, of course,” admitted 70-year-old Ferguson.

The Old Trafford side will also be wary of third-placed Tottenham, who closed the gap to three points after their 1-0 victory over West Brom.

The London side will draw level on points with United if they win their game in hand against Everton next week.

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The Magpies took the lead at the Sports Direct Arena through striker Demba Ba, before Yohan Cabaye added a magnificent second from a free-kick after the break.

Phil Jones’ own goal late in the match sealed a memorable win for Alan Pardew’s men.

“We started reasonably well,” added Ferguson, whose side face local rivals City in the FA Cup on Sunday.

“But they scored a fantastic goal and it really picked everyone up in the

stadium. The second was a killer for us.

“The story of the game was they had two fantastic strikes which put them in the driving seat.”

Pardew, meanwhile, believes the scoreline was a fair reflection of his side’s dominance.

“We won because we controlled the game in terms of what we wanted to do, we wouldn’t let them play,” said the Magpies boss, after the club recorded their first win over United since 2001.

“Physically and aerially we had an advantage. It was a great victory for us - we beat the champions 3-0 and we probably deserved that scoreline.

“You’ve got to have brave players who are going to push on - we had some outstanding performances individually.” Leading scorer Ba scored his 15th goal of the campaign to set the Magpies on their way, but will now head off to the Africa Cup of Nations to play for Senegal.

However, Pardew believes his side will cope with the loss.

“You see the guys who came off the bench contributed,” he added.

“Leon Best in particular stepped up to the plate when we lost Andy Carroll [to Liverpool in January 2011].

“We knew it was going to happen and we accept that.”

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