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CABLE WARS! Hurley’s to join digital TV market
Gabrielle Myers A new internet, telephone and digital TV company is set to be launched in Cayman. The $20m project promises to cover 95% of the Island’s properties within two years time. Infinity Broadband Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding with a strategic partner to launch a triple play fiber optic network company. It will mean viewers will be able to watch several hundred digital television channels from across the world. And people will also be able to watch 3DTV, multi-room and Time Shifting television allowing people to watch programmes whenever they choose. The man behind Infinity is Hurley’s Entertainment supremo Randy Merren. Yesterday Mr Merren said: “We are delighted to have reached this important milestone on the way to delivering a world class fibre network to the people and businesses within the Cayman Islands. “The Cayman Islands will become one of the few places in the world that can boast a nationwide fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) nationwide network capable of bringing state of the art services to both our homes and the business community.”
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Cayman cop slams “mindless” rioters
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Tad Stoner Top police officer John Jones has described the riots on the streets of the UK as “mindless criminality.” Chief Superintendent Jones, a former UK officer has experienced first hand the mayhem being witnessed all across England. Mr Jones, who has been with the RCIPS for five years,
said: “We had riots in the 70s and 80s and in 05 and 06 we had them on a local scale. “Several experienced guys have said this is the worst in living memory. Subsequent rioting seems to me to be mindless criminality, pure looting, theft and doing as much damage as possible.”
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Cayman residents travelling to the United Kingdom are being warned to be extra vigilant after rioters plagued the capital for a fourth night running. And people worried about friends or family currently staying in London can monitor the latest information via the UK’s Home Office. It comes as hundreds of young thugs took to the streets for a fourth night running. Trouble also flared in Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol. A spokesman for the Governor’s Office in Cayman said they are monitoring the situation. He added: “I can imagine that many people around the world, either with family in the UK or with visits planned there, are rather concerned with the recent and rather disturbing news reports. We will monitor and review the situation.” British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess yesterday and nearly tripled the number of police on the streets of London to deal with the crisis touched off by three days of rioting. Cameron described the scenes of burning buildings and smashed windows in London and several other British cities as “sickening,” but refrained from more extreme measures such as calling in the
military to help beleaguered police restore order. Instead, he said 16,000 officers would be on the streets of the capital Tuesday night, almost tripling the number on the streets Monday night. The riots also claimed their first death — a 26 year old found shot dead in a car. “People should be in no doubt that we will do everything necessary to restore order to Britain’s streets and to make them safe for the lawabiding,” Cameron told reporters after rushing home from an Italian vacation to chair a crisis meeting at his Downing Street office. A wave of violence and looting raged across London, as authorities struggled to contain the country’s worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. Some 525 arrests have been made. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence during London’s 2012 Summer Olympics, less than a year away. England’s soccer match Wednesday against the Netherlands in London’s Wembley stadium was cancelled to free up police officers for riot duty. Police called in hundreds of reinforcements and volunteer police
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officers — and deployed armored vehicles in some of the worst-hit districts — but still struggled to keep pace with the chaos unfolding at flashpoints across London, in the central city of Birmingham, the western city of Bristol and the city of Liverpool.
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iStrange Donkey’s going to California HONOLULU (AP) — In an effort to control the Big Island’s wild donkey population, about 100 of them are being taken to California. KITV reports the Humane Society of the United States is planning to remove the donkeys on a chartered plane next month. Humane Society’s Hawaii director Inga Gibson says they’ll go to animal sanctuaries. Drought conditions led the donkeys from the highlands into a populated area in search of water. Donkeys were appearing near the highway and a school. The Humane Society and a local veterinarian have been trapping and sterilising animals from the rapidly growing population estimated at about 400 to 600 donkeys. At the end of the month, a clinic is to be set up at a ranch to castrate captured male donkeys.
Dumbo sperm bank will take longer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Zoo officials trying to establish North America’s first elephant sperm bank have been slowed by bureaucratic hurdles. But officials at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium hope South African officials will approve the shipment of frozen elephant semen to the United States in about a month. Scientists collected the samples last year as part of what’s called Project Frozen Dumbo. That’s a two-year international effort to help preserve elephants and breed them in captivity without having to ship animals from zoo to zoo. Barbara Baker, president and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Zoo, tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the project is taking longer than officials had hoped. But she and the scientists involved say they knew there would be hurdles because nothing like it has been tried before.
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iLocal
Hospital plan replaces seaport Tad Stoner
(left) Hon. Mark Scotland, Dr Devi Shetty and Premier McKeeva Bush. (right) Proposed East End Seaport. In a double-barreled announcement yesterday, Dr Devi Shetty said his Narayana Cayman Medical University would be built on East End land owned by developer Joe Imparato, who has abandoned his proposed East End Seaport project. The announcement came Tuesday afternoon in a two-page press release from Shetty public relations adviser, local magazine publisher David Legge. “The Narayana Cayman University Medical Centre (NCUMC), along with supporting infrastructure, will be built on land in East End, the site that was to be the home of the East End Seaport,” the release said. “Mr. Gene Thompson, local director of the Narayana group, and Mr. Joseph A. Imparato, owner of the approximately 600-acre site known as ‘High Rock’, said an agreement had been reached that will benefit all parties and provide an ideal location for the medical complex, known informally as Dr. Devi Shetty’s healthcare city,” according to the release. In April, Dr Shetty promised a mid-summer announcement of land acquisition somewhere in the eastern districts on which he would build his $2 billion hospital and
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university complex, comprising a 2,000 bed hospital, assisted-living accommodations, research facilities, a medical college and a hotel. When completed, the medical-tourism park, specialising in cardiac and pediatric care, will boast at least 10 buildings, catering to 1,400 patients daily. Initial groundbreaking for a firstphase 140-bed hospital is scheduled for late autumn, with completion in March 2013. Yesterday’s release referred to job creation and other economic opportunities. “The site will be designed and implemented to benefit, in every way possible, the Caymanian people,” the release said, quoting Mr Thompson. “In all instances, Caymanians will be given preferential opportunities during the construction phase and also in educational, training and career opportunities as the project moves forward.” The document not only resolved outstanding questions about the complex’s location, but also addressed Mr Imparato’s giant East End Seaport project, a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar container, cruise and transshipment port. The seaport had come under heavy environmental, political and
community criticism after local residents and politicians voiced fears about the degradation of the eastern part of the island. “If The East End Seaport is cancelled, I am happy about that, and will go home and light a $75 cigar,” said North Side MLA Ezzard Miller, a longtime campaigner against the project. “I am not entirely happy to hear that the Shetty hospital will go there, because it’s the same problem as with the new Cayman Economic Zone: It gives one person exclusivity,” he said referring to a recent government agreement for a series of private industrial developments on designated land. However, Mr Miller went on, “I will offer my support to Dr Shetty. That is absolutely a preferred use of the land there instead of a seaport.” Despite repeated attempts, neither East End MLA Arden McLean, nor Mr Imparato, nor his Atwater Consulting public relations advisers could be reached for comment by press time, although yesterday’s announcement said Mr McLean, Premier McKeeva Bush and Minister for Health Mark Scotland supported the project. tad.stoner@ieyenews.com
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Randy Merren is the owner of Hurley’s Entertainment and the man behind Infinity. The new project will be in direct competition to WestStar, the only cable television provider in Cayman. And they will go head to head with telecom giants Digicel and Lime in providing internet and telephone services. Infinity will provide high - speed internet connections up to 15mbps and voice over internet protocol telephone services. They are the only triple play provider that is fully licensed by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA). Customers additionally will be able to watch TV on their iPads, laptops and other tablet devices. In addition, customer set-top boxes will have the capability to deliver HD-TV, Pay Per View and Video on Demand. The main network will be kept in a central location and the fibre network will be distributed across the island using previously existing infrastructure, so as to avoid both the cost and inconvenience of trenching roads throughout the island. They say 75% of all properties will be able to access the initial range of services with a year and a half from the start of the build-out, and 95%
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within two years. Mr. Merren added: “The Cayman Islands appear to be the last islands in the Caribbean to have a wired Cable TV solution yet we have the highest GDP per capita in the region. “It is going to require a significant investment to achieve a nationwide
fibre optic network and we would be extremely interested to speak to additional investors that wish to participate in subsequent financing rounds”. “Infinity is bringing a whole new world of entertainment to Cayman with new and impressive features to grab our attention. The world of phone, internet and TV services in Cayman is on its way to being changed for the better.” gabrielle.myers@ieyenews.com
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Police focus on telephone links Tad Stoner
Police are focusing on telecommunications links and recently discovered “materials” in the search for Kerran Baker, while DNA testing indicates stains found last week on the Pedro Castle ironshore are not blood. Conceding that as of yesterday, day nine of the search for Ms Baker, “they still are not in a position to locate Kerran”. “We still remain hopeful, but it is reasonable, as the days continue, that we hope for the best, but a lot of things could happen in the intervening period,” said Detective Superintendent Marlon Bodden. Seeking information on Ms Baker’s telephone use on the evening of 30 July, Mr Bodden said “the issues are sensitive and we have the obligation to use the information in a responsible manner. We are not in a position,” he said, “to detail police efforts.” He said that the missing nurse was someone who would regularly use Blackberry Messenger. Mr Bodden said that 25-year-old Kerran “was a heavy BBM user, and we would like to speak to anyone, within the Cayman islands or elsewhere, who exchanged BBMs with her,” outlining official contacts both in Ms Baker’s native Jamaica and internationally. “It is important to speak to a person
because we are talking about persons versus instruments,” Mr Bodden said. “A person can tell us ‘I was speaking to her and I know about her manner’.” Searchers had still not recovered Ms Baker’s cell phone, he said, while 15 investigators were working full time combing through CCTV footage, forensic strategies and conducting interviews. ”We need the support of people who may have valuable information,” Chief Superintendent John Jones said. “One or two people have been a little bit reluctant to come forward.” On Sunday, police found a series of documents in the Pedro Castle area, but Mr Bodden refused to be drawn on their significance. “I am not even going to give an inkling as to what that is all about,” he said. “We have to draw a line in the sand as relates to the inquiry, so I am not going to commit to anything.” Ms Baker disappeared from her Bodden Town home on the evening of 30 July, leaving few clues in her wake. While rumours abound, police have found only groceries and a handbag at her home, her car and car keys near Pedro Castle and CCTV footage of her 30 July entry into Fosters Food Fair near the airport. Mr Bodden said that DNA analysis of stains, initially suspected to be
blood, found on seaside rocks near to the area where Ms Baker’s white Honda Civic had been found, had tested negative. “They did not have any blood content,” he said, “but this is not to say we will not continue the investigation, but we don’t know what happened.” Further searches were not planned, he said. Ongoing strategy discussions were focused on lines of inquiry and allocation of resources. “We have a search coordinator and he plans how best to utilise resources both administratively and practically.” tad.stoner@ieyenews.com
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38th Annual General Meeting of the Regional Nursing Body (RNB) at the Government Administration Building. The Minister of Health has pledged to create a specialist degree course in nursing to encourage more Caymanians into the profession. Mark Scotland was speaking at the 38th Annual General Meeting of the Regional Nursing Body (RNB). He told guests from all over the Caribbean that he hopes to be able to offer students the chance to complete a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing here at the University College of the Cayman Islands. Mr Scotland revealed the Ministry is currently in discussions with the Health Services Authority, the Ministry of Education and the University. He said yesterday: “Over the years the RNB continues to make significant strides in offering assistance, upgrading the schools of nursing, providing accreditation to the schools of nursing, the development of a regional exam for nurses and the review of post graduate programmes in nursing. “In addition the body was the driving force behind CARICOM’s council for human and social development decision to have all schools of nursing within the region convert to the Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing. “I can say with pride again that through the efforts of our HSA and the nurses here we are now moving towards
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having a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing here at our University College of the Cayman Islands.” The 38th Annual General Meeting of the Regional Nursing Body (RNB) opened yesterday with remarks from a range of spokespersons both local and regional. Speakers included Chief Nursing Officer Ms. Hazel Brown, Chief Officer of the Ministry of Health Ms. Jennifer Ahearn, Representative of the Cayman Islands Nursing and Midwifery, Representative of the Cayman Islands Nursing Association, CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Secretariat Dr. Rudolph Cummings, Chairperson of the Regional Nursing Body Dr. Leila McWhinney-Dehaney and the Minister of Health Hon. Mr. Mark Scotland. Mr Scotland told iNews he hoped the course would be in place in 12 months time. And he said by offering more incentive to better their careers in Cayman, he hoped fewer trained nurses would travel overseas to work. He added: “So many of our trained nurses are recruited by the US and UK. Indeed according to the World Bank only 25% of nurses in the English speaking Caribbean remain working in their own countries.
Minister of Health Mark Scotland “The huge majority moves abroad where working and living conditions are better. With this is in mind your deliberations might well consider how to regionally improve the nursing environment so that professionals will want to stay and make a difference in their own homes.” Regional representation included Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua, Surinam, Belize St. Lucia, Barbados and many more. The Chief Nursing Officer for Haiti who was also present received an extensive and emotional welcome, as representation for Haiti hasn’t been seen in some decades. ivy.lichtenstein@ieyenews.com
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Proceeds from the sale will go to Freddy Mahoney. Freddy was born on 14th July along with his twin brother Jake, having only reached 24 weeks and 6 days gestational age. They had been suffering from Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. Unfortunately a few hours later Jake passed away. Freddy is a little fighter and currently being treated in Florida. We'd like to show our support as a community and do what little we can to help our neighbours, Freddy's parents, Andrew and Amanda. Southampton Gardens is located across the by-pass from The Strand. Why not stop by and see what's on offer before doing your Saturday shopping? Please spread the word!
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Fuel standards for gas guzzlers says Obama WASHINGTON (AP) — Fire trucks and concrete mixers, semis, heavyduty pickups and all trucks in between will, for the first time, have to trim fuel consumption and emissions of heattrapping gases under new efficiency standards being announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama. The White House says the standards the president was announcing will save businesses billions of dollars in fuel costs, help reduce oil consumption and cut air pollution. The standards apply to vehicle model years 2014 to 2018. Senior administration officials said the new targets affect three
categories of vehicles. Big rigs or semis will have to slash fuel consumption and production of heat-trapping gases by up to 23 percent. Gasoline-powered heavyduty pickups and vans will have to cut consumption by 10 percent, or by 15 percent if the vehicles run on diesel fuel. The standards also prescribe a nine percent reduction in fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for work trucks, which include everything from fire trucks and concrete mixers to garbage trucks and buses, according to the officials, who requested
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Japan ignored radiation warnings NAMIE, Japan (AP) — Japan’s system to forecast radiation threats was working from the moment its nuclear crisis began. As officials planned a venting operation certain to release radioactivity into the air, the system predicted Karino Elementary School would be directly in the path of the plume emerging from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. But the prediction helped no one. Nobody acted on it. The school, just over six miles from the plant, was not immediately cleared out. Quite the opposite. It was turned into a temporary evacuation center. Reports from the forecast system
were sent to Japan’s nuclear safety agency, but the flow of data stopped there. Prime Minister Naoto Kan and others involved in declaring evacuation areas never saw the reports, and neither did local authorities. So thousands of people stayed for days in areas that the system had identified as high-risk, an Associated Press investigation has found. At Karino Elementary in the town of Namie, about 400 students, teachers, parents and others gathered in the playground at the height of the nuclear crisis stemming from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Many ate rice balls and cooked in the open air.
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Wire’s Snoop guilty of heroin distribution BALTIMORE (AP) — An actress who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO’s “The Wire” pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to distribute heroin, caught by a wiretap in a joint federal-state drug probe of an alleged drug gang. Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, 31, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, a day before her trial was set to begin. Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill accepted the plea, suspending a seven-year sentence with credit for time served and ordering three years of supervised probation with provisions for out-ofstate travel for work.
The plea allows Pearson to move on with her acting career, instead of spending more than a year with charges hanging over her, attorney Benjamin C. Sutley said outside the courthouse. “I can’t say she would have been found not guilty,” Sutley said. But Pearson interrupted, saying “I would have been found not guilty.” Pearson was one of 64 people charged in March in “Operation Usual Suspects.” The federal indictment states that since 2008, members of the conspiracy bought heroin from New York and marijuana from California and sold the drugs on the streets of Baltimore.
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One of our reporters, Kevin Creary, had a one on one interview with the premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush last Saturday (6) following his appearance at a Jamaican Independence Day Celebration at Reflections on Godfrey Nixon Way. In this interview, the premier claimed the granting of Caymanian status to qualified Jamaicans and other suitable applicants caused him to lose the election in 2005. He said: “In 2005 I lost the elections because I gave Jamaicans and other Caribbean nationals Citizenship. My doors have always been open to everyone; I pay attention to those who came here to work and to help build this country. There were too many people who thought they could abuse the foreign workers in this country. I met a man that has been here for forty years and had no legitimate residency.” The last part of his statement I can 100% support. There are many (too many) cases such as this and most of them are in the lower income (or no income) bracket. They cannot afford the fees they have to find to try and remedy their quite legitimate claims. Unfortunately what happened with the policy of granting the Caymanian status in 2005 was it not being thoroughly researched. It was rushed through and it did look like an electioneering stunt that backfired. Deserving people with legitimate claims for status were left out whilst the less deserving, and in some cases, never even applied for it, were put in. Yes, Mr. Bush did lose the election, but that was not the only factor, however, I am not going to labour on here going down that road. The People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) swept into power and implemented the 7 Year Rollover Policy, (that Mr. Bush had actually started) in a truly draconian way going further than had initially been put forward. The result has been a disaster for this country. It has affected the rich, middleclass and poor Caymanians (more so the poor) adversely and no one is better off for it. The PPM jumped on the bandwagon in the wake of the public outcry to the status fiasco and it was one of their centrepiece electioneering promises. Now in opposition, and
with a new leader (Hon. Alden McLauglin), they have recognised their mistake and Mr. McLaughlin said, during his response to the premier’s Budget Address in the L.A. recently, “The rollover policy has succeeded in its objective at considerable social and economic cost. Eight years after it was introduced there is still widespread dissatisfaction with its workings and its effect, both within the immigrant population, which is subject to it, and among Caymanian employers.” Mr. Bush had also earlier made similar comments but, since Mr. McLaughlin’s speech, seems to have gone quiet on the subject. Instead, and appropriately at both the Reflections event and at St. George’s Anglican Church Jamaican Independence Day Service (7) announced, “Effective September 1st, 2011, Jamaican Nationals with a United States, British or Canadian visa, or adults over the age of 70 years and children under the age of fifteen years will not require a visa to visit the Cayman Islands.” We wait and see if the Jamaican Government will respond positively and as quickly as they did with their unfortunate retaliatory and reciprocal measures to Caymanians when our visa policy was introduced. In Kevin Creary’s interview, Mr. Bush also said, “Four or five of my school teachers have been Jamaicans. One of them, Rev. Joe Crawford [past Minister of Elmslie United Church] from Mandeville, nurtured me into public speaking. I am 56, and I remember the days when Caymanians went to Jamaica rather than Miami to shop. Oxford Pharmacy [in Jamaica] was like WalMart. I know when Caymanians could only go to the University Hospital in Jamaica. I have an uncle who was buried in Spanish town.” If both our parties go forward and electioneer against restrictive practices and put forward policies for their removal, I will support them. My wife’s brother in law, Dr. Edlin Merren, one of our islands leading Caymanians and statesmen, told me a long time ago, “Colin, we [Cayman] have a roundabout that is going round and round in our favour. It is easy to stop but very difficult to restart.” Electioneering may have started but it is the economy we have to restart. The roundabout has stopped and the moss has started to grow around it. These speeches are a step in the right direction. However, speeches are not enough. It is action and weed killer. colin.wilson@ieyenews.com
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ARK and Aon join forces to help Cayman’s needy families Aon Insurance Managers joined up with Cayman’s Acts of Random Kindness charity recently to collect groceries for Cayman’s needy families. The drive is a part of ARK’s Pantry, a project aimed at helping local families out with their groceries, which grew out of “Giving is Receiving,” the title of the charity’s Christmas time food drive. Alison Lomax of ARK said: “Most of us are lucky enough to live a privileged life on this wonderful island but together with our other causes, ARK has identified a surprisingly large number of families struggling with unemployment and hunger. “ARK is acutely aware that hunger is not just a seasonal problem and due to the phenomenal response to ARK’s “Giving is Receiving” project before Christmas, we decided to set up Cayman ARK’s Pantry whereby struggling families can choose essential food and household items.” “We are delighted that Aon Insurance Managers (Cayman) Limited has committed to organise a food drive twice a year to help stock ARK’s Pantry and we cannot thank the management and staff enough for their incredible generosity.
“Aon’s first food drive was organised throughout July and they managed to collect a huge amount of food, household items and over $500 worth of food vouchers. It is acts of random kindness like this that will make a huge difference in our community.” Paul Fitzgerald the Aon Insurance Managers’ Social Committee representative said: “The donations were raised from two sources - staff members contributed by bringing food supplies and the profits of the office tuck shop went towards food items and food vouchers. In addition, Aon as a Company matched the profits raised by the tuck shop.”
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Cayman’s Ark began a few years ago when a group of women in Cayman, who were used to going out and meeting one another in restaurants, decided they would meet in one another’s homes, and save their restaurant money for a good cause. Each month another ARK member took it in turns to give a presentation on a different cause. Since that time the organisation has been overwhelmed with an increasing number of causes, from medical expenses for a young child battling a heart ventricle tumour, to helping send a boat filled with supplies to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. christopher.tobutt@ieyenews.com
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Two of the Cayman Islands finest young dancers will be leaving our shores to advance their dancing and academic skills in Jamaica. Dancer Celina Russell, 18, will be going off to Jamaica to attend the University of the West Indies, where she will continue her studies in accounting management. She has also been invited to join a prestigious Jamaican dance movement called The Stella Morris Dance Ensemble. Ica Eden, 25, past student of the International College of the Cayman Islands, ICCI, will be attending the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts to study dance performance. Celina attended St. Ignatius Catholic School and has been dancing for about eight years. She says that she has managed to successfully balance her love for dance and her academic studies for as long as she can remember. She said that through dance she has managed to stay fit, disciplined and focused. “I believe dancing is good for keeping fit. Your body is yours to take care of and you must do constructive things with it. Dancing is about
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Ica Eden, Instructor Lorna Reid and Celina Russell
giving out your body’s energy and expressing yourself through music and your body movements. Listening to music makes me want to dance. I have a thing for African and Spanish music in particular,” said Celina. Ica Eden has been dancing for about ten years, and says she has always enjoyed it. According to Ica, dancing has helped her tremendously with her confidence on and off the job. “Dancing is a passion, I love it. I
dance in front of an audience all the time, and it boosts my confidence. Dancing teaches poise, control and discipline. Both dancers were members of the Cayman Islands dance company, Dance Unlimited. Ica Eden will be leaving the Island for Jamaica on the August 15th and Celina is expected to leave the following week. kevin.creary@ieyenews.com
Ica and Celina are all set to dance and study in Jamaica.
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Author describes how volunteering Christopher Tobutt When the World Trade Centre collapsed, Alison Thompson’s life changed forever. Up until that point in time Ms. Thompson had been a successful Investment banker. But when 23 of her friends died in the Twin Towers, she just knew she couldn’t turn away - she had to help. During a recent book signing event at Camana Bay’s Books and Books, Ms. Thompson read excerpts from her new book “The Third Wave”. She described how she and a small band of like minded volunteers were able to make a surprisingly big difference at other major disaster sites around the world, like the devastated coastal towns of Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami, or Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Ms. Thompson’s message is that everybody can help. You don’t have to be a professional firefighter, doctor, or rescue worker. Neither do you have to belong to any of the big official aid organisations, that
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are often hamstrung by red tape and bureaucracy Describing her experiences after 9/11, she told the story of an 83-year-old grandmother who helped the rescue workers by serving tea, all day long. “There’s a spot for everyone,” she said. Her experience was that volunteers like her at Ground Zero were often given contradictory messages about their help. The official line was they should stay out. The unofficial line, often spoken quietly, and out of sight, was that people like her were badly needed: “We had people trying to shut us down many times. They said, ‘It’s time to step aside because the professionals have to take over.’ Then they covered their badges and said, ‘we need you to stay,’” she said. After the 2004 tsunami struck, Ms. Thompson arrived in Sri Lanka with just $300. “We started driving down the coast and we found thousands and thousands of people without food and water, over hundreds of miles of coastline… where were the aid groups? Everything was gone. I felt like I was standing at the gates of hell and it was September 11 all over again but this time there were still people alive
whom I could help, sad, desperate and lost.” Ms. Thompson said, as she read from The Third Wave. She ended up staying over 14 months, and spearheading projects involving the rebuilding of entire communities. During her stay at Sri Lanka, Ms. Thompson purchased a small video recorder, and by editing several hundred hours of video down to just a couple of hours, she was able to put together a video that was seen by some Hollywood movie stars. Soon she was approached by actor Sean Penn, who asked her to
help him spearhead a drive to get young people from across America to volunteer with helping the people of New Orleans still recovering from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. When the Haiti earthquake struck, Ms. Thompson knew she was needed again. “We slept out in the jungle, and then started walking through the streets helping people,” she said. “I tell people: ‘get out of therapy…go and help people,” Ms. Thompson said. christopher.tobutt@ieyenews.com
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Part 20 The girl had thought all her life that her hair was ugly because it was so heavy, and neither black nor gold in hue; and Rast, following her opinion, had thought so too: she had told him it was, many a time. It was characteristic of her nature that while as a child she had admired her companion’s spirited, handsome face and curling golden locks, she had never feared lest he might not return her affection because she happened to be ugly; she drew no comparisons. But she had often discussed the subject of beauty with him. “I should like to be beautiful,” she said; “like that girl at the fort last summer.” “Pooh! It doesn’t make much difference,” answered Rast, magnanimously. “I shall always like you.” “That is because you are so generous, dear.” “Perhaps it is,” answered the boy. This was two years before, when they were fourteen and fifteen years old; at sixteen and seventeen they had advanced but little in their ideas of life and of each other. Still, there was a slight change, for Anne now hurried the braiding; it hurt her a little that Rast should gaze so steadily at the rough, ugly hair. When the Greek was finished they said good-by to the chaplain, and left the cottage together. As they crossed the inner parade-ground, taking the snow path which led toward the entrance grating, and which was kept shoveled out by the soldiers, the snow walls on each side rising to their chins, Rast suddenly exclaimed: “Oh, Annet, I have thought of something! I am going to take you down the fort hill on a sled. Now you need not object, because I shall do it in any case, although we are grown up, and I am going to college. Probably it will be the last time. I shall borrow Bert Boyden’s sled. Come along.” The entire boy in him was awake;
he seized Anne’s wrist, and dragged her through first one cross-path, then another, until at last they reached the commandant’s door. From the windows their heads had been visible, turning and crossing above the heaped-up snow. “Rast, and Anne Douglas,” said Mrs. Bryden, recognizing the girl’s fur cap and the youth’s golden hair. She tapped on the window, and signed to them to enter without ceremony. “What is it, Rast? Good-morning, Anne; what a color you have, child!” “Rast has been making me run,” said Anne, smiling, and coming toward the hearth, where the fort ladies were sitting together sewing, and rather lugubriously recalling Christmas times in their old Eastern homes. “Throw off your cloak,” said Mrs. Cromer, “else you will take cold when you go out again.” “We shall only stay a moment,” answered Anne. The cloak was of strong dark blue woollen cloth, closely fitted to the figure, with a small cape; it reached from her throat to her ankles, and was met and completed by fur boots, fur gloves, and a little fur
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cap. The rough plain costume was becoming to the vigorous girl. “It tones her down,” thought the lieutenant’s wife; “she really looks quite well.” In the mean while Rast had gone across to the dining room to find Bert Bryden, the commandant’s son, and borrow his sled. “And you’re really going to take Miss Douglas down the hill!” said the boy. “Hurrah! I’ll look out of the side window and see. What fun! Such a big girl to go sliding!” Anne was a big girl to go; but Rast was not to be withstood. She would not get on the sled at the door, as he wished, but followed him out through the sally-port, and round to the top of the long steep fort hill, whose snowy slippery road-track was hardly used at all during the winter, save by coasters, and those few in number, for the village boys, French and half-breeds, did not view the snow as an amusement, or toiling up hill as a recreation. The two little boys at the fort, and what Scotch and New England blood there was in the town, held a monopoly of the coasting. “There they go!” cried Bert, from his perch on the deep window-seat overlooking the frozen Straits and the village below. “Mamma, you must let me take you down now; you are not so big as Miss Douglas.” Mrs. Bryden, a slender little woman, laughed. “Fancy the colonel’s horror,” she said, “if he should see me sliding down that hill! And yet it looks as if it might be rather stirring,” she added, watching the flying sled and its load. The sled, of island manufacture, was large and sledge-like; it carried two comfortably. Anne held on by Rast’s shoulders, sitting behind him, while he guided the flying craft. Down they glided, darted, faster and faster, losing all sense of everything after a while save speed.
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All the world’s an island The Curse of the Empty Pot (with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe) Carol-Ann Rudy I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the company break room, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of those halfpleasurable ruminations, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere room, and the simple landscape features of the domain— upon the bleak tables and chairs— upon the vacant eye-like face of the TV set mounted upon a blank wall from which nothing was heard but the inane chatter of talking heads. Skulking employees came and went with furtive glances and whispered warnings, “Watch out for the PotBoiler! He struck again an hour ago!” The room emptied of those few brave souls who dared venture into this unforgiving landscape. A hush fell over it. Even the TV set seemed to mute itself. Minutes passed. Suddenly, a dark pall, a pestilent and mystic vapour, a dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued specter, arose from the vinyl of the floor, moving in like a dirty gray fog over a swamp. Approaching the counter, it hesitated for a moment as though getting its bearings. Moving again, it hovered over the automatic coffee service. One coffee pot began to boil and bubble while the other, nearly empty, burned furiously filling the air with an acrid stench. It was the infamous Pot-Boiler! Many had suspected its existence, but none had witnessed it in the performance of its devilish duty— destroying the concoction of the bean, the java, the joe. Woe is he who yearns for the succor of the daily mug, the java jive, for he is doomed to the whim-of-the-wisp, the despicable Pot-Boiler! He does not work alone, however. This specter has a companion in the
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the most abominable apparition, in his domain and scour the burned pot, making new pots of both regular and decaffeinated coffee. Could it be the dastardly deeds of this demon ghost discourages the drinker of the precious brew? Quoth the Pot-Boiler, “Never pour!” But pour they must; pour they will. Okay, enough of the Edgar Allan Poe bit—let’s talk real. You won’t see the culprits, but they exist. The ones that never make a fresh pot of coffee when it’s down to a half cup or less. The ones that let the almost-empty pot sit and burn because they’re too cotton-pickin’ lazy or distracted to turn the burner off. The ones that probably do the same thing at home. But in the work place? Makes you wonder what manners and mores they bring from their accursed mansions of gloom— home. Watch out for him—the dreaded Pot-Boiler! He or she may be sitting next to you…. carol-ann.rudy@ieyenews.com
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Wildlife groups will boycott Sri Lanka’s first census of elephants because they fear the count is a “smoke screen” for capturing and domesticating the animals. The Wildlife Department said it will go ahead with the count starting Thursday aimed at gathering information on the population and helping prepare conservation policies. About 20 wildlife groups had agreed to deploy about 200 volunteers to help the department count the animals. But they announced Tuesday they were withdrawing their support after Wildlife Minister S.M. Chandransena was quoted as saying 300 young elephants will be captured and handed over to Buddhist temples after the census. “This is actually a smoke screen to capture wild elephants when they are young, specially tuskers and basically take in them for domestication,” said Rukshan Jayawardene, chairman of Wildlife Conservation Forum. He feared that most of these animals will not end up in temples,
but “will end up in private residences working long hours.” Costumed and decorated pachyderms are used in Buddhist ceremonies as they parade through streets carrying the sacred relics of the Lord Buddha. They are also ridden by tourists and used to carry heavy weights, such as in the logging industry. Chandrasena could not be reached for comment. But the head of the Wildlife Department H.D. Ratnayake denied plans of capturing and taming wild elephants and said the department will go ahead with the census. Elephants will be counted for three days as they come to drink from water holes, reservoirs and tanks. The population is believed to be between 5,000 and 6,000, about half the numbers of the last count a century ago. More recent counts were limited because of the quarter-century civil war that ended in 2009. Elephants are endangered in Sri Lanka. They are increasingly entering villages in search of food, and around 250 are killed every year, mostly
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by farmers protecting people or their crops. About 50 people die in elephant attacks each year, too. Activists fear that capturing and removing more elephants from their habitat would further reduce elephant population. Most tamed elephants die early due to lack of proper food, loss of habitat and working very hard, said Shantha Jayaweera, another wildlife activist.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — David Ortiz had four hits and three RBIs and delivered the go-ahead single with two outs in the ninth inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to an 8-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Ortiz, a former Twin, hit a two-run homer in the sixth and finished a triple shy of the cycle. Jarrod Saltalamacchia added a homer and two RBIs to help the Red Sox win for the fifth time in seven games and move 1½ games ahead of the idle Yankees in the AL East.
Marco Scutaro chipped in three hits for Boston and Jonathan Papelbon worked a perfect ninth for his 25th save. Jason Kubel had a homer among his three hits and two RBIs for the Twins, who have lost five straight. Alfredo Aceves (8-1) gave up one run in an inning in relief of Tim Wakefield for the victory. Wakefield gave up five runs — three earned — and eight hits with five strikeouts. But he missed out on victory No. 200 for the third straight start when Aceves gave up the game-tying single to Kubel in the eighth. The Twins scored just four runs — and committed five errors — in a weekend sweep at the hands of the Chicago White Sox, a series so ugly that manager Ron Gardenhire said his team “didn’t play worth a flip.”
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iSports Seven year old signed by Madrid, for Real MADRID (AP) — He has a contract with one of soccer’s biggest clubs and the same long, floppy hair and nickname Leo of his idol, Lionel Messi. It may take awhile, however, before Leonel Angel Coira can match the wondrous Messi: He is seven years old. Real Madrid said this week it signed the Argentine prodigy to its youth academy after seeing him in tryouts. He will start training with Madrid’s youth team Sept 6.
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Coira hopes to follow the path set by Messi, a countryman who joined Barcelona from the Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys as a teenager and has gone on to win the World Player of the Year award two times. “(My) dream is to meet Messi, play in the first division with Madrid and for Argentina in the World Cup,” Coira told the Spanish newspaper ABC. The signing underscores the tactics of top teams scooping up fresh talent as early as possible to avoid paying huge transfer fees when their potential blossoms. And the Spanish soccer power didn’t have to look as far as Argentina to find this gem. Coira’s family moved to Madrid three years ago after his father, Miguel, was offered a job in the Spanish capital. Miguel Coira coaches a local youth club where Leonel played and first caught the eye of a Madrid scout.
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In an interview with The Associated Press, the Miami Heat forward said he is not considering offers to play internationally during the NBA lockout — with one catch. He’s committed to the 2012 Olympics and trying to help the United States defend the gold medal he helped win at the Beijing Games. “I’m optimistic that we will have a season this year,” James said. “Very optimistic.” A little anxious, too. He’s working out twice a day, trying to erase some of the sting that’s still there after the Heat lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA finals. “Right now I’ve just been focusing on being a better player, working on my game every single day,” James said at a news conference before the AP interview. “Like I said, the Dallas Mavericks were a great team and they deserved to win that championship. And I’ll just use that as motivation coming into this season.” He’s also trying to deliver on his vow to be even better whenever the Heat resume play, saying he’s been in Houston at times this offseason to learn post play from one of the game’s all-time greats, former Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon.
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