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THURSDAY | 13 OCTOBER 2011

ELECTRIC SHOCKER Bush calls for major CUC audit

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Premier McKeeva Bush will ask an overseas auditor to examine the books at Caribbean Utilities Company, seeking to determine why monthly electricity bills are so high. He proposed bringing to Cayman “a company out of the US or out of Canada who know this business” to perform an audit on the utility company, drawing cries of approval from a 200-member audience at Mary Miller Hall on Tuesday evening. In a wide-ranging 45-minute speech, Mr Bush said he was trying to revive an economy in which “people can’t get work and are suffering”. Blaming his political opponents, he told the audience the recession had “put a severe strain on you”, and that falling revenues and budget deficits had forced him to put a 25-cent per gallon surcharge on the approximately 30 million gallons of diesel fuel burned annually by CUC.

Thailand hit by mega floods

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Crushing defeat in El Salvador

Governor launches Poppy Appeal

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Charles Adams, helped by his wife, Sue, ‘pin’ the Governor with the first poppy for this year’s Poppy Appeal

Governor Duncan Taylor joined members of the Cayman Islands Veterans Association to launch their official Poppy Appeal. His Excellency was also on hand to open their brand new headquarters on the ground

floor of the Crighton Building on Crewe Road. Mr Taylor, pictured above having a Poppy pinned to his lapel, said he was delighted to be able to launch the appeal in such a “smart, new premises.” Full story on page 12

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