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Rapist Jeffrey Barnes appeared in court yesterday to face further rape and abduction charges, but was remanded back into custody pending a Grand Court appearance next week on three previous charges and the two new counts.

In a brief Tuesday appearance before Magistrate Nova Hall, Barnes, wearing a neat polo shirt and blue jeans, faced fresh charges in connection with a 29 October abduction and rape of a 49-year-old woman in Admiral’s Landing. He left wearing sunglasses.

The Tuesday allegations come in addition to a single 4 November count of sexual assault on a 17-year-old, and 22 November charges of aggravated burglary and rape.

The sexual assault charge relates to an attack that came only 48 hours prior to the Admiral’s Landing incident.

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Santa CLAWS is here!

Children were treated to a double helping of fun when Father Christmas paid a visit to the Cat Adoption Fair at Camana Bay. The day was a huge success with one of the Humane Society’s longer term cats, Star, finding a new home.

Pixie, the ginger tom sat on

Santa’s lap, may also be finding a new home soon after he enjoyed a sleepover with a potential owner.

Organisers thanked everyone who helped make the occasion a day to remember – and added that anyone interested in adopting a cat, or one of the many dogs at the shelter, can call 949 1461.

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A shining light of neighbourly love Photos by Christopher Tobutt

There was music, and the seasonal magic of neighbourly love, friendship and goodwill going on at the Northward Road Park Carols by Candlelight service

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An inflatable Santa, cocooned in trees covered with sparkling Christmas lights - each one shining like a child’s dream of a bright tomorrow - looked on as the Northward Road Park carol service began.

Bodden Town MLA Mark Scotland began by asking everyone to remember all those near and dear to them who had departed since the last year’s carol service, with a moment’s silence.

A single child from the audience was invited to throw the switch that lit up one little corner of the world with brilliant, shining light.

Next, with eyes full of wonder at the spreading seasonal magic of goodwill, the Candles of Friendship, symbolising the never-dying love between friends, family and neighbours, were lit.

Guests waved the little lights from side to side as Kristi Watler sang:

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“So carry your candle, run to the darkness.

Seek out the lonely, the tired and worn. Hold your candle for all to see it. Take your candle and go light your world.”

The yearly carol service at the end of Northward Road has become a true, shining light of neighbourly love and friendship. As year follows year, the little display of lights has grown to be more and more spectacular.

There was music from Noel Wallace, who led the carolers in their joyful, seasonal songs, and from a little group of four musicians from the Cayman Islands Marching Band. But nobody

could have captured the evening’s feeling better, as Erica Scotland read the poem titled, ‘A Christmas Wish’: “May your journeys be short, your burdens light May your spirit never grow old May all your clouds have silver linings And your rainbows pots of gold I wish this all and so much more May all your dreams come true May you have a Merry Christmas friend And a happy New Year, too”

Pastor Winston Rose brought a brief Christmas message, before blessing the food.

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Director of Primary Health Care, Dr Kiran Kumar is advising the public that only 200 doses of flu shots are available to the public and no more will be procured for this season.

Vaccines will be offered on a first come first serve basis. He is also reminding the public that persons be vaccinated before the peak of the flu season which ranges between December and January. The Flu vaccine is being offered FREE of cost to all residents and no appointments are necessary.

Persons requiring flu shots can visit any of the following locations: • The General Practice Clinic at the Cayman Islands Hospital, Faith Hospital in Cayman Brac and all District Health Centres, from 2p.m. to 4p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Residents of Little Cayman should contact the clinic to make arrangements.

The following persons should not be vaccinated without first consulting their physician: • Children less than 6 months of age • People who have severe allergy to chicken or chicken eggs (the flu vaccine virus is grown on hens’ eggs) • People with known allergy to systemic Neomycin • People who have had a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination in the past • People who developed Guillian-Barre’ syndrome (GBS) within 6 weeks of getting a vaccine previously.

• People who have a moderate or severe illness with a fever should wait to get vaccinated.

• Nursing mothers should inform their doctor or nurse that they are breastfeeding before taking the flu shot.

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Continued from front page The 22 November charges stem from a 20 October attack in George Town’s Whitman Seymour Drive, reported to police by the victim in a telephone call from overseas after detectives announced on 31 October they were seeking Barnes for the two-dayearlier attack.

Barnes has already served a oneyear sentence for raping a 16-year-old.

Appearing yesterday for the defence, Samson and McGrath’s Prathna Bodden told the court she had been unable to obtain background papers on Barnes, notwithstanding “this new matter”. Both Crown Counsel Nicole Petite and Magistrate Hall agreed to postpone the arraignment until 16 December, at which time Barnes will

appear in Grand Court.

Barnes has been in custody since his 1 November arrest after a brief manhunt culminating at Prospect’s Ocean Club where he had been hiding since the Admiral’s Landing assault.

During his 2009 Northward incarceration, the 32-year-old Barnes appeared in a Government Information Service’s “Spotlight” show, proclaiming how a literacy programme had changed his life.

“After you start reading you gain more knowledge,” Barnes told interviewer Heather Hopson. “You gain more understanding, and you start to find yourself doing more positive things and think more positive toward your life, what you are going to do with your life when you come out, you know?

“You ask for help because really and truly mostly everybody in here

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can help. Also if someone can show that passion that they are willing to help, take that passion and go forward from there.”

Barnes is also suspected of three times seeking to lure an 11-year-old into his car in Prospect only hours prior to the Admiral’s Landing attack.

No charges have been brought in the incident, however.

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appeared accused of causing death by dangerous driving.

He was released on bail after providing a surety of $10,000. He must continue to live at Lakeside Villas, has a 9pm to 6am curfew, must report daily to police, cannot go within 100 yards of the airport or Safehaven and cannot enter a licensed premises or consume alcohol.

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Dixon is next due to appear in court on January 9th 2012. Results of DUI tests are being awaited before any further charges.

The court heard how Dixon has been on island for eight years. His wife is in Miami recovering from an illness.

Although not yet convicted, Dixon is accused of a previous DUI from July this year.

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Free HIV Testing Extended Due to demand, free HIV testing will continue to be available at the General Practice Clinic of the Cayman Islands Hospital, West Bay and Bodden Town District Health Centres and Faith Hospital in Cayman Brac from Monday, 5 December to Thursday, 8 December from 9am – 2pm.

Free screening will also be available at East End District Health Centre on 5 and 8 December and North Side District Health Centre on Tuesday, 6 December.

On Little Cayman, tests will be done at the health centre with prior arrangement only by calling 948-0072. For further information contact the Public Health Department on 244-2648.

Treasury closes early Friday The Treasury Department will close at 12 noon on Friday, 9 December to facilitate a staff function.

All business should be conducted as early as possible before the noon closing. The department regrets any inconvenience the early closure might cause.

The office reopens on Monday, 12 December to normal working hours from 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the cash counter open between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Jury notice Grand Court jurors for the 5th October 2011 – 3rd January 2012 session are not to report to the court’s office on the 12th of December and are excused for the remainder of the session.

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Bob Marley heirs sue half brother over name use MIAMI (AP) — A feud has erupted within the first family of reggae, with the widow and nine children of Bob Marley suing his half brother to stop use of the Marley name to promote an annual Miami music festival and profit from other businesses in his native Jamaica.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court contends the half brother, businessman Richard Booker, and several affiliated companies are violating copyright and trademark laws by using Marley’s name, photographs, lyrics, symbols and other intellectual property without authorisation.

The lawsuit says people could be deceived into thinking those uses are officially endorsed by Marley’s widow, Rita Marley, and their children.

Booker and Bob Marley shared the same mother.

The entities include the Bob Marley Movement of Jah People Inc., which promotes the music festival, a restaurant in Jamaica called Mama Marley’s and several businesses with the name Nine Mile — the part of Jamaica where Marley grew up and is now buried. One Nine Mile business offers a tour of the area, and the music event is known as the Nine Mile Music Festival.

In addition, a recent press release about the music festival included this headline: “All For The Love Of Bob Marley.” The 19th annual festival is scheduled for March of next year on Virginia Key, near Miami. Three of Marley’s kids — Stephen, Damien and Julian Marley — are scheduled to perform.

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According to the festival’s website, the event’s roots date to a Bob Marley fan club begun in 1981. That gradually grew into the music festival and related food drive that has collected more than 2 million canned goods for shelters in Miami and Jamaica.

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Twenty killed in rare attacks on Afghan Shiites KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers marking a holy day Tuesday in the Afghan capital as at least 20 people were killed in an unprecedented wave of violence against the minority Islamic sect in Afghanistan.

The Kabul attacker blew himself up in the midst of a crowd of men, women and children gathered outside the Abul Fazl shrine to commemorate the seventh century death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. Some men were beating themselves in mourning and

food was being distributed.

A bomb strapped to a bicycle also exploded as a convoy of Afghan Shiites was driving down the road, shouting slogans for the festival known as Ashoura, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

Sayed Kabir Amiri, an official in charge of Kabul hospitals, said at least 16 people killed and more than 100 were wounded in Kabul. At least four were killed and 21 wounded in the Mazar-i-Sharif attack, said Sakhi Kargar, a spokesman for the health ministry.

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Clinton calls Russian election unfair VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Issuing new warnings to two U.S. partners Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticised Russia for a parliamentary election she said was rigged and said election gains by Islamist parties must not set back Egypt’s push toward democracy after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak this year.

She acknowledged the success of Islamist parties in Egyptian parliamentary voting that the U.S. has praised as fair. But many of the winners are not friendly to the United States or U.S. ally Israel, and some secular political activists in Egypt are worried that their revolution is

being hijacked. Islamist parties are among the better-known and betterorganized in Egypt, and while they were expected to do well in last week’s first round voting, a hardline bloc scored surprisingly large gains.

Clinton addressed head-on the fear that the hardliners will crimp human and women’s rights.

“Transitions require fair and inclusive elections, but they also demand the embrace of democratic norms and rules,” she said. “We expect all democratic actors to uphold universal human rights, including women’s rights, to allow free religious practice.”

Speaking to the election-

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OPINIONS

The Editor speaks

I could have been mistaken Colin Wilson

Chuck and Barrie Quappe wrote a song for the musical “Magna Carta” called “I Could Have Been Mistaken”. Matilda de Briouze, a baroness who lived in the 11th century and was known for being a gossip, sang the song. Her gossiping of, often offensive, falsehoods got her sent to prison where she died after she was mysteriously poisoned. I co-wrote the book that went with the music and now I have to echo those words. Yes, I could have been mistaken.

I could have been mistaken when I wrote my Editorial on 2nd Dec under the banner “More bad news for the RCIPS.” I was commenting on the Court of Appeal’s decision to quash the murder convictions of Patrick McField, Osbourne Douglas and Brandon Leslie. I stated that, “by looking at the evidence on which the defendants were found guilty there would seem to be reasonable doubt.” If that wasn’t bad enough I added this really offending statement, “There is obviously something wrong with Cayman’s Legal Department because this is not the first time this has happened.” The gossip of Matilda’s day is like the blogs we have today except our bloggers can hide behind mostly silly false names without fear of reprisals.

I have now had cause to review the actual transcript where Justice Charles Quin ruled on a submission by the defendants on 30 Aug/9 Sep 2010 that there was no case to answer. The submission contained references to inconsistencies between the witnesses, the number of shots fired at the scene, forensic evidence, identification and other matters of contention. The submissions asked the case should be withdrawn from the jury.

In her response the Solicitor General did acknowledge there were inconsistencies between the evidence of two of the witnesses but pointed out that much of the evidence of the two eye witnesses tended to support one another. She said, “They both saw the three men confront the deceased at the porch, and they both saw two of the men each draw a

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gun and point them at the deceased.” One of the witnesses knew all three men before the material time.

In making his judgment, Justice Quin said, “It is my view that, although there are several inconsistencies and discrepancies within the Crown evidence, these are matters which, with proper directions, can be safely left for the jury. There will have to be careful directions on a number of issues such as eye witness and voice identification evidence. At the appropriate time I will invite all four counsel to give me their suggestions relating to these directions. If all counsel think it appropriate, I can always consider providing the jury with a written route or steps to verdict.

“In my view, looking at all the evidence before me, there is a case for each of the three defendants to answer and looking at each of the three defendants and the charge they face, there is, on one possible view of the facts, evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that they are each guilty.

“Therefore, I order that this matter should be allowed to go to the jury.” The jury consequently found the three men guilty of the murder of the three men.

Therefore, after reading the transcript, I was mistaken in saying ‘there is obviously something wrong with Cayman’s Legal Department and I humbly apologise to them and to Justice Quin.

Whilst I am in the mood for apologising I must admit I was incredibly rude in another of my editorials (29 Nov) “British Bobbies Leave” where I asked Police Commissioner David Baines if he wrote his own statements. I implied they were badly written with ‘meaningless verbiage’ and hoped he hadn’t written them himself and if he did he needed someone else to write them for him. Please forgive me Commissioner. It was wrong and offensive.

Now I expect all of the above would like to see me imprisoned and even poisoned. Thank goodness it is 2011, but I will not tell anyone which restaurant I will be eating at in the foreseeable future.

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We continue our serialisation of Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Anne Part 85

“National reputations are nothing, politics nothing”

In addition to the others, Ward Heathcote had now arrived at Carly’s, also Mr. Blum.

In the mean time Miss Vanhorn had tested without delay her niece’s new knowledge of botany. Her face was flushed and her hand fairly trembled with eagerness as she gave Anne her first wild flower, and ordered her to analyze it.

Would she blunder, or show herself dull and incompetent?

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Anne, honest as usual, analyzed the flower with some mistakes, but with real interest; and the keen black eyes recognized the genuine hue of the feeling, as far as it went. After that initiation, every morning they drove to the woods, and Anne searched in all directions, coming back loaded down with spoil. Every afternoon there followed analyzing, pressing, drying, and labelling, for hours.

“Pray leave the foundations of our bridge intact,” called Isabel Varce, passing on horseback, accompanied by Ward Heathcote, and looking down at Anne digging up something on the bank below, while at a little distance Miss Vanhorn’s coupé was waiting, with the old lady’s hard face looking out through the closed window.

Anne laughed, and turned her face, glowing with rose-color, upward to look at them.

“Do you like that sort of thing?” said Isabel, pausing, having noted at a glance that the young girl was attired in old clothes, and appeared in every way at a disadvantage. She had no especial malice toward Anne in this; she merely acted on general principles as applied to all of her own sex. But even the most acute feminine minds make mistakes on one subject; namely, they forget that to a man dress is not the woman.

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to Ward Heathcote a new and striking creature.

The wind ruffled her thick brown hair and blew it into little rings and curls about her face, her eyes, unflinching in the brilliant sunshine, laughed back at them as they looked over the railing; the lines of her shoulder and extended arms were of noble beauty. To a woman’s eyes a perfect sleeve is of the highest importance; it did not occur to Isabel that through the ugly, baggy, out-of-date sleeve down there on the bank, the wind, sturdily blowing, was revealing an arm whose outline silk and lace could never rival. Satisfied with her manœuvre, she rode on: Anne certainly looked what all women would have called “a fright.”

Yet that very evening Heathcote approached, recalled himself to Miss Vanhorn’s short memory, and, after a few moments of conversation, sat down beside Anne, who received him with the same frank predisposition

to be pleased which she gave to all alike. Heathcote was not a talker like Dexter; he seemed to have little to say at any time. He was one of a small and unimportant class in the United States, which would be very offensive to citizens at large if it came in contact with them; but it seldom does.

To this class there is no city in America save New York, and New York itself is only partially endurable. National reputations are nothing, politics nothing. Money is necessary, and ought to be provided in some way; and generally it is, since without it this class could not exist in a purely democratic land. But it is inherited, not made. It may be said that simply the large landed estates acquired at an early date in the vicinity of the city, and immensely increased in value by the growth of the metropolis, have produced this class, which, however, having no barriers, can never be permanent, or make to it laws. Heathcote’s greatgrandfather was a landed proprietor in Westchester County; he had lived well, and died at a good old age, to be succeeded by his son, who also lived well, and died not so well, and poorer than his father. The grandson increased the ratio in both cases, leaving to his little boy, Ward, but a small portion of the original fortune, and departing from the custom of the house in that he died early. The boy, without father, mother, brother, or sister, grew up under the care of guardians, and, upon coming of age, took possession of the remnant left to him. A good portion of this he himself had lost, not so much from extravagance, however, as carelessness. He had been abroad, of course, and had adopted English ways, but not with any violence. He left that to others. He passed for good-natured in the main; he was not restless. He was quite willing that other men should have more luxuries than he had—a yacht, for instance, or fine horses; he felt no irritation on the subject.

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Will tablets replace computers?

On recent trips to the USA and UK I did not take my laptop with me but instead my tablet – the Apple iPad. Interestingly, on my long flight across the Atlantic I noticed more people using tablets than laptops. That doesn’t mean more people actually travel with tablets than laptops as they may have had them still packed away in their luggage, but it does mean people are turning to them as an alternative.

I have just read an article by Bill Detwiler of TechRepublic (www.techrepublic.com) where he held a live conference last September where he posed a similar question. He said the members were divided on the tablet’s usefulness “but the number of those who believe the devices are merely a passing fad is falling. Nearly 40 percent of respondents to an April, 2011 poll think tablets are the future, and 32 percent were on the fence. Only 28 percent felt that tablets were a fad.�

At the end of the same article Bill sums up, “Within five years, I believe many office workspaces will consist of a docking station, keyboard, mouse or trackpad, and large monitor(s). Each morning, you’ll come in, place your tablet in the dock, and turn on the monitor. You’ll still use the keyboard, mouse, and monitor for creating content, but you’ll actually be doing it on a tablet (or maybe even a smartphone).�

I found the iPad less cumbersome than my laptop but the hotels I stayed in were not geared up for wifi, even the expensive rooms at the Hilton.

You could obtain wifi (at a ridiculously inflated price) but not in your rooms! Hopefully that will change.

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LIFESTYLE

Just about memories and me Part 2

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[My eldest brother, Ladner whom had joined the British Merchant Navy, was serving when a torpedo sank the ship he was on in 1942.]

I remember when my mother and father received the news that evening. I was out grocery shopping for my mother. I can even remember what I had in my basket- sugar, butter and a broom. In those days we were sent to a shop, maybe Merren’s or Dr. Roy’s, with a list from our mother. The clerk would fill out the list and put the groceries in our bag that was actually a straw basket. I can recall it because someone took my picture that evening when I was resting against the fence of Elmslie Church, on my way home with the bag of groceries. Mother was shattered by the news of “Laddie” being lost. He was so young and her firstborn. I can hear her crying for him now. She cried for thirty years, on and off, until she died at the age of 86 in the 1970’s.

“Oh, what a savage thing war is! I wonder what happened to my Laddie?” she wept bitterly.

Life carried on as usual, sad at that point in time, but nevertheless I had school starting very shortly.

I was sent to Miss Una Bush’s School to learn my ‘ABC’s’. Her school was just a stone’s throw away.

A little path through the bush to the north of where our home was, took us to Miss Una’s. She got me going with my spelling and reading I can tell you. My mother used to always tell me after I’d grown up how serious I was when I would come home with my ABC book. She said I would get on the floor on my back, my feet up in the air against the doorframe where I could keep cool and I would start to read, ‘”R-A-T= RAT. M-A-T= MAT. C-A-T= CAT. This is my cat.’ Yes, and what about it?” I would say.

Mother always made me laugh when she would tell me that story.

The “Cockroach”

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Sarah and Joan

There were many mosquitoes to annoy us at the school, almost ‘eating us alive.’ Miss Una hated them.

She didn’t only slap and kill them; she would grind them up between her fingers and smell them! Believe it or not, mosquitoes carry a very peculiar scent. (Kill one and check it out.) Sometimes I would find myself smelling those I’d killed just to get a charge! (Smile.)

It was down at Miss Una’s that I met my good friend to be, Sarah Lee. She lived next door but one to the school and we became inseparable. Sarah didn’t have a father to love her like I had. I used to feel sorry for her at times. Never the less she had a mother, even though she was sickly, and an Aunt, who gave her love in abundance. Oh, they loved Sarah with all their heart. Sarah was a brilliant child loved by all the neighbours as well. I went down through the bush to look for Sarah whenever I got the chance.

Sarah and I were both energetic and we could do anything the boys could do. We soon got called “Tom Boys” whatever that meant! We swam a lot, rode my father’s bicycle (when we could ‘borrow’ it), went fishing and much more, but we did everything together. Even cleaning the garden!

In the same area of Miss Una’s was the home of Sunbeam Thompson. She was a barber, or let’s says she used to cut hair. I was sent to her when my hair needed to be cut. I was about 4 or 5 years old. In those days we sat under a tree to have our hair trimmed or cut. One day, after having my hair attended to, Mrs. Mary Jane Bush (Una’s mother) was standing by the side of the road and she stopped me as I walked past. She lovingly kissed all my neck even though it was full of Sunbeam’s after hair cut powder. Mother told me some years later that I had told her about that incident.

“I’m not going back to Sunbeam to have my hair cut off anymore,” I said, ‘”cause cousin Mary Jane always waits to hug me and kiss all the powder off

my neck.”

Well, I think from then I started to grow my hair long so it was either plaited or tied with a ribbon in some other style.

After learning to read, write and spell, I suppose pretty well from going to Miss Una’s school, I enrolled, with my sister Helen, as one of the first Students of Triple C School when it opened its doors in 1941. I remember my first day vividly. I cried and cried. After all, this was taking me a lot further from home and among strange teachers from USA. To make things even worse, father had given me a green desk! It was so big and tall I could hardly see over it.

You see, in those days we had to find our own desks.

I remember father commissioned a carpenter by the name of Kitchener Soloman to make the horrible thing and, of course, I don’t suppose he even knew what sort of desk I needed.

Anyway, the new school was situated in the Webster Building on the Waterfront better known as Viking Gallery and Sunflower, although now sadly demolished. Progress! But I cried even more when the boys named that horrible big, green desk ‘The Green Cockroach!’ That really upset me. I cried now even more. My older sister, Ruth, came to the school to console me. I hated school and everyone!

After a few days, as usual, I began to settle down.

I made a new friend and stayed close to Grace and Beth McTaggart who were very good friends of mine from Sunday school. We nearly always walked to and from school together and we lived within a voice of each other. After School was out in the evenings we’d mostly sit on the McTaggart’s porch in their swing and sing like nightingales. There wasn’t anything else to do once we’d done our homework, and we didn’t need any light to sing, as we knew all the songs by heart. Songs like “Harbour Lights,” and “On Top of Old Smokie.” to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

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Seagrape House wins design prize The Cayman Society of Architects, Surveyors & Engineers (CASE) and the Cayman Contractors Association (CCA), in conjunction with His Excellency Governor Duncan Taylor, CBE are proud to announce the recipient of the 2011 Governor’s Award for Design and Construction Excellence in the Cayman Islands.

The Governor selected Seagrape House – a residential project by John Doak Architecture, as this year’s winner. The design team, including Doak himself, was presented with this award at a ceremony at the Governor’s House on Wednesday 30th November.

In attendance were His Excellency, Governor Duncan Taylor CBE and Mrs. Taylor, Honourable Minister Mike Adam, members of CASE, the CCA and other leading representatives from the construction industry, and members of the media.

Seagrape House was selected by His Excellency from a shortlist of six projects which included; Kirk Freeport Bayshore Mall by The Burns Connolly Group, Lighthouse Point by Jay Easterbrook, an Eco-Friendly Residence by Icon Architecture, a renewable energy home

by Island Drafting Engineering Ltd., and Trevose House – also by John Doak Architecture.

In his acceptance speech John had this to say, “I am extremely honoured to have received this award. Mr. and Mrs. Morse presented me with their vision- a traditional Caribbean style home, which utilised renewable energy resources and set in the undisturbed surroundings of the sea grapes of the Frank Sound beachridge,” said John Doak, Architect and winner of the Governor’s Award. “It was a pleasure for me and my associate John Yeo to work with the Morses, and their construction team of Smart Construction and Vigoro Nursery. It is always a pleasure when a client declares that their dream home turned out to be something they never dreamed of!!” to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

Homeowner Janet Morse was also present to accept the award alongside John and was ecstatic that Seagrape and John’s hard work were recognised. “John Doak listened to our vision and designed a plantation style home that featured renewable energy and a beautiful garden”, states Morse. “The entire team seamlessly incorporated cutting-edge renewable energy and geothermal technologies while maintaining a lush oasis outside. We can truly say this is our dream home.”

In a surprise announcement, the Governor also presented a Judge’s Commendation for Excellence in Sustainability and the Environment award to Lighthouse Point for its commitment to renewable energy. Owner, designer and builder Jay Easterbrook was on hand to accept the unexpected award. “I am honoured that Lighthouse Point has been recognized amongst such amazing projects, I would like to acknowledge the hard work of my contractors: Electra-Tech, Arch Solar, Altonda Engineering, M & R Construction and Cayman Engineering.”

Last Wednesday’s award ceremony was held to give industry representatives an exclusive preview of the short listed projects and for CASE and CCA members, distinguished guests and teams who submitted projects to discover who would become the 2011 recipient of

this prestigious national Award. The six projects that were short listed were showcased to all those in attendance and each member of the winning team received a Certificate to acknowledge their achievement. The winning building will also receive a commemorative plaque and Award and Shortlist project team members will have the distinction of being able to display the Governor’s Award title and logo on their corporate and marketing materials. To view a complete listing of the short listed projects, please visit www.

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His Excellency is endorsing the Award developed by CASE and the CCA to recognise the high standard of design in the Cayman Islands. It aims to encourage, foster and maintain innovation, sustainability and excellence in the Cayman Islands construction industry. The projects were judged on whether and to what extent the design and construction of the nominated project displayed the following attributes: Creativity and Innovation, Sustainability and the Environment, Value, Buildability and Cultural Response.

Sponsors of the Governor’s Award include: Cayman National, AL Thompson’s Home Depot, CL Flowers and Sons, MC2 Design Group, Real Life Magazine, National Concrete, Cox Lumber Co., and Cayman First.

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Special edition Kittiwake watch ORIS have released a Limited Edition DIVER to commemorate the deliberate sinking of the USS Kittiwake in Grand Cayman, which done in order to create an artificial reef.

Priced at $3500, the watch is available at The Mansion in Camana Bay. The Kittiwake DIVER measures 49mm and has a water-resistance of 100 bar or 1000m. It is a Limited Edition of just 500 pieces, and for every one manufactured, Oris will make a donation to the Kittiwake artificial reef project.

The sunken ship’s mechanical room has been dedicated to the partnership with Oris and in recognition of this a plaque has been installed there. The back of the Oris Kittiwake Limited Edition dive watch shows the logo of the Kittiwake artificial reef project with USS Kittiwake.

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Olympus probe figure heads to Cayman, relative says Hajime Sagawa, the Japanese banker whose firms got $687 million in fees as part of Olympus Corp.’s $2.1 billion buyout of Gyrus Group Plc, has left Florida for the Cayman Islands, his brother-in-law said, a month after divorcing his wife and selling her their Boca Raton home for $10.

Sagawa hasn’t made a statement since ousted President Michael Woodford disclosed Tokyo-based Olympus paid fees equal to 36 percent of the value of the 2008 deal to two companies connected with Sagawa. The camera and medical device maker has said the payments were designed in part to hide losses.

“He’s down in the Cayman Islands,” Gary Nevis, Sagawa’s brother-in-law, said in a Dec. 1 telephone interview, citing a conversation he had last week with his sister, Sagawa’s wife.

Criminal investigators in the U.S., U.K. and Japan are probing fees and other payments made by Olympus.

Woodford was in New York last week to meet with U.S. prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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FBI, according to the Wall Street Journal. He hasn’t been charged with wrongdoing.

Axes America LLC, a New Yorkbased brokerage that Sagawa operated, served as an adviser to Olympus on the Gyrus deal. Axam Investments Ltd., a Cayman Islandsbased fund of which Sagawa was a director, got all but $17 million of the $687 million in fees.

Sagawa’s wife, Ellen Sagawa, is still living in Boca Raton, Florida, in the 7,217 square-foot, canal-front house that the couple co-owned until October. She declined to comment Dec. 4 on her husband’s whereabouts.

A 32.6-foot yacht named “Snapper” registered to her was docked behind the home.

Nevis said his sister provided no other details as to her husband’s location. Sagawa’s neighbors in Boca Raton said they had seen Ellen Sagawa in recent days strolling through the neighborhood without her husband.

Sagawa may have been living in the Caymans at an oceanfront

condominium along Seven Mile Beach in 2006. According to shipping records, a package was sent under his name to Boca Raton that year from the residence on Snooze Lane.

A woman answering the door there yesterday said Sagawa hasn’t been living there since at least February.

Sagawa and his wife filed for divorce in Florida Oct. 31, with Ellen Sagawa retaining $9.9 million of the couple’s assets and Sagawa keeping $1.5 million, according to court records.

On Oct. 25, Sagawa transferred the Boca Raton home to his wife for $10, according to real estate records.

Nevis said that his sister last week didn’t mention that the couple had divorced.

“She didn’t mention a divorce or anything like that,” Nevis said. “She didn’t indicate there were problems.”

Herman Moskowitz, a Hollywood, Florida-based accountant who has done work for another Sagawa firm, and Clifford Hark, a lawyer in Palm Beach, Florida, who has also worked for Sagawa, declined to discuss the banker.

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Ben Stein’s Christmas email chain letter Georgina Wilcox georgina.wilcox@ieyenews.com

iNews Cayman has been sent an email purporting to be from Ben Stein. I received one too and I expect you have.

It’s going the rounds not only here but in the USA and the UK. I actually received a similar one in 2006 with some subtle differences. Because of this I began to have my suspicions.

Both emails were subtitled “Ben Stein: Christmas Confessions”. Both are a commentary on Christmas and the state of American culture attributed to Ben Stein who is an author, pundit, actor and game show host.

I went to his online website where it says:- “I’ve (the webmaster) been getting a lot of emails about whether or not Ben wrote an article about Christmas and the Holidays. The short answer is yes. However just remember that people can add WHATEVEVER they want to his original article.” It then has a link to the original article that comprises 433 words. The 2006 version I received contains 683 words.

It only contains 283 words from the original text. The 2011 version currently going the rounds has 825 words and is the only one that signs off with “My best regards, honestly and respectfully, Ben Stein.”

Only about a third of these two chain emails contained anything written by Ben Stein and delivered by him on the “CBS Sunday Morning” programme on December 18, 2005. The rest are pieces of writings from anonymous persons that have been circulating

all over the Internet for the past ten years! It is obvious from the different styles of the various writings. Their actual placement in the original text is haphazard.

The opening paragraph on the 2011 version says: “Apparently the White House referred to Christmas Trees as Holiday Trees for the first time this year which prompted CBS presenter, Ben Stein, to present this piece which I would like to share with you. I think it applies just as much to many countries as it does to America.” At no time has the White House ever substituted the term “Holiday Trees” for Christmas Trees”. Ben Stein wrote his piece in 2005 and not 2011. Therefore, this did not prompt him to write it.

Then we have these statements: “Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her “How could God let something like this Happen?” (regarding Katrina).

“Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

Billy Graham’s daughter is actually Ann Graham Lotz and the above quote is a paraphrase of statements she made in an interview by Jane Clayson on the

CBS “Early Show” on September 13, 2001. Hurricane Katrina? No. It was the 9/11 terrorist attack of 2001.

Ben Stein doesn’t seem to mind his original piece has been added to. I leave you with a paragraph which he did write.

“Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened.

I don’t feel discriminated against.

That’s what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.”

Well said Ben and, A Very Merry Christmas to you, From Georgina

Using stencils for decorating Georgina Wilcox

“The Cancer Society staff truly care for cancer patients” “I am not a cancer patient but I have been attending the Cancer Society’s Survivor Dinners over the years with my wife. I appreciate how the Cayman Islands Cancer Society’s staff care for my wife who is a cancer survivor. I have a lot of respect for those people because they treat everyone with respect. They truly care for cancer patients.

I pray that the Lord will give them His blessings and the strength to carry on the good work that they are doing. I am happy to be around them as they are a friendly and loving group of people.”

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You can use stencil design to create borders on the edges of walls and even decorate an entire wall using large patterns or repeating one pattern over and over.

You can find patterns in the stores, and on line. You can choose

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Planet in sweet spot of Goldilocks zone for life

Kepler-22b

WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch.

It’s a bit too big.

The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call the Goldilocks zone, that hard to find place that’s not too hot, not too cold, where water, which is essential for life, doesn’t freeze or boil. And it has a shopping mall-like surface temperature of near 72 degrees, scientists say.

The planet’s confirmation was announced Monday by NASA along with other discoveries by its Kepler telescope, which was launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009.

That’s the first planet confirmed in the habitable zone for Kepler, which had already found Earth-like rocky planets elsewhere.

Twice before astronomers have announced a planet found in that zone, but neither have been as promising.

“This is a phenomenal discovery in the course of human history,” Geoff Marcy of University of California, Berkeley, one of the pioneers of planet-hunting outside our solar system, said in an email. “This discovery shows that we Homo sapiens are straining our reach into the universe to find planets that remind us of home. We are almost there.”

The new planet — named Kepler-22b — has key aspects it shares with Earth. It circles a star that could be the twin of our sun and to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

at just about the same distance. The planet’s year of 290 days is even close to ours. It likely has water and rock.

The only trouble is the planet’s a bit big for life to exist on the surface. The planet is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. It could be more like the gas-and-liquid Neptune with only a rocky core and mostly ocean.

“It’s so exciting to imagine the possibilities,” said Natalie Batalha, the Kepler deputy science chief.

Floating on that “world completely covered in water” could be like being on an Earth ocean and “it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that life could exist in such an ocean,” Batalha said in a phone interview.

Kepler can’t find life itself, just where the conditions might be right for it to thrive. And when astronomers look for life elsewhere they’re talking about everything ranging from microbes to advanced intelligence that can be looking back at us.

So far the Kepler telescope has spotted 2,326 candidate planets outside our solar system with 139 of them potentially habitable ones. Even though the confirmed Kepler-22b is a bit big, it is still smaller than most of the other candidates. It is closest to Earth in size, temperature and star than either of the two previously announced planets in the zone.

The confirmation of one of two, though, has been disputed. The latest discovery has been confirmed several ways, including by two other telescopes.

Earlier this year, a European team of astronomers said they had confirmed another planet in the habitable zone, but that one was hot and barely on the inside edge of the habitable zone.

For Marcy, who is on the Kepler team, the newest planet is a smidgen too large. But, “that smidgen makes all the difference,” he said.

Because its size implies that it’s closer to Neptune in composition than Earth, “I would bet my telescope that there is no hard, rocky surface to walk on,” Marcy said.

Chief Kepler scientist William Borucki said he thinks the planet is somewhere between Earth and gas-and-liquid Neptune, but that it has a lot of rocky material. It’s in a size range that scientists don’t really know anything about. Measurements next summer may help astronomers have a better idea of its makeup, he said.

The planet is 600 light years away. Each light year is 5.9 trillion miles. It would take a space shuttle about 22 million years to get there.

Kepler spots a planet when it passes in front of its star. NASA requires three of those sightings before it begins to confirm it as a planet. Borucki said the third sighting for 22b happened a year ago, just before the telescope shut down for a while. It took several months to finish the confirmation.

“It’s a great gift,” Borucki said. “We consider this sort of our Christmas planet.”

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Cayman Islands Cancer Society Presentation Synopsis 4. Female Cancers (1) – Cervical Cancer & HPV

PART 2

The Cayman Islands Cancer Society is committed to increasing the public’s awareness of cancer issues and has developed a public education awareness program around this goal.

Our presentations are interactive and each presentation will include an overview of the specific type of cancer if it related to a specific type of cancer and include a discussion of risk factors, signs and symptoms, screening guidelines and ways to reduce your risk. Whenever possible, a doctor will attend these sessions.

This talk will give you all the facts on cervical cancers, one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in women in the Caribbean. Hear about the risk factors as well as the importance of regular screening for this type of cancer. Also learn about the association between cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV) and the new vaccine against HPV which will lead to the prevention of many cases of cervical cancer.

5. Female Cancers (2) Ovarian and Endometrial – What

You Need To Know This talk will give you all the facts on these two cancers that are unique to women. Find out what they are, risk factors and how to reduce the likelihood of developing them, signs and symptoms, screening recommendations and more.

6. Lung Cancer – What You Need To Know

Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world affecting both men and women. Find out what you need to know - what it is, risk factors and how to reduce the To book a session or to obtain more likelihood of developing it, signs and symptoms, screening information, please contact Victoria recommendations and more.

Anderson by calling 949-7618 or 916-7108. Alternatively, you may Talks on other types of cancer are also offered. email victoria@cics.ky Please see tomorrows paper for part 3

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Bodden shuts down Elite while Sunset roll GT Andrew Zarczynski info@ieyenews.com

In the Cayman Islands Women’s league Scholars and Cayman Islands National Team playmaker Jetena Bodden helped spearhead a standout defensive performance this Saturday as Scholars International became the first team this season to take points from Elite Sports Club.

The game started off scrappy as Scholars doggedly broke down any patterns of attacking play that Elite tried to put together, neither side were committing great numbers in attack and neither side wanted to be the first team to make a mistake.

On the balance of play a draw was a fair result, Scholars are now unbeaten in two games and have picked up 4 points out a possible 6 against Future and Elite moving up into third position in the league.

In contrast to this fixture the early match up saw Sunset F.C. hammer George Town SC 6:0. Sunset is known for their possession football and they used the ball well against George Town to create plenty of opportunities in front of goal.

Gisela Gamba stabbed home the first for Sunset, a Mya Romilowych cross found its way through a crowd of legs and Gamba tapped home to put her side up 1:0 in the 10th minute.

Twelve minutes later a mirror image of the first created the second for Sunset, this time Gamba spun in the box after receiving the cross and fired the ball top right to put Sunset 2:0 up.

The goal of game came in the 27th minute, Charlotte Horne’s 35yard free-kick stunned George Town keeper Marline Willians.

Early in the second half Gisela Gamba completed her hat-trick, Mya Romilowych again the provider as she crossed low for Gamba who was in the right place yet again to put her team 4:0 up. Sarah Pinches got in on the act in the 56th minute to make it 5:0 before substitute Diana Willington came on to score in the 76th minute. to blog visit www.ieyenews.com

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PFL Playoffs set for this Weekend Contesting for the Under This past weekend marked the official end to the 2011/2012 9 Consolation Cup will be CUC Primary Football League George Town Primary, Cayman (PFL) regular season. With only International School and Truth three games remaining in the For Youth from Group A, and Under 9 Division and two in the Triple C, Prospect Primary and Under 11 Division due to regular Red Bay Primary from Group B. In the Under 11 Division, Sir season postponements, schools qualifying for the Champions and John A. Cumber, George Town Consolation Cups have already Primary, Truth For Youth and St. Ignatius Prep will represent been determined.

This coming Saturday, Group A, and Cayman Prep, Red December 10 will mark the first Bay Primary, Triple C and Grace day of the 2011/2012 PFL Playoffs Academy will compete for the with games scheduled only in the coveted Champions Cup. Playing for the Under Under 9 and Under 11 Champions Cups. Due to the relatively small 11 Consolation Cup will be number of schools qualifying for Bodden Town Primary, Cayman School and this year’s Under 9 and Under International 11 Consolation Cups, play will Savannah Primary from Group commence for schools competing A, and Prospect Primary and in this Cup on Saturday, January NorthEast Schools representing Group B. 7, 2012.

On Saturday, the Under 9 Schools qualifying for the this year’s Under 9 Champions Cup games will be played at 9:00 am include Sir John A. Cumber and 10:00 am with the Under 11 Primary, St. Ignatius Prep, Bodden games being played at 11:00 am Town Primary and Savannah and noon. All games will be at the Primary from Group A, and Annex Field.

Following this past weekend’s Cayman Prep, Grace Academy, South Sound Schools and play in the Under 9 Division, Sir John A. Cumber Primary and NorthEast Schools from Group B. South Sound Schools and Grace Cayman Prep remain undefeated 2011/2012 CUC Primary Football League in their respective groups. Cayman Academy are scheduled to play Prep topped Group B winning make-up game this week, which League Standings (as of December 3, 2011) will determine second and third all six games and Sir John A. Cumber Primary will match their place in Group B.

counterparts record with a win can be viewed on CUC’s website over Truth For Youth, who they at www.cuc-cayman.com. Simply are scheduled to play sometime click on the “About Us” tab on the home page and navigate to this week.

Ironically, in the Under 11 “Community Involvement” and Division, both schools are also “Primary Football League”. In undefeated although Cayman addition, following the three Prep have dropped two points games scheduled for this week, following a 2-2 draw with Prospect a complete schedule for the Primary during week three in early 2011/2012 PFL Playoffs will be 2011/2012 CUC Primary Football League available.

November. Even with this slip-up, Fans of “the powerful game” are Cayman Prep still toppedLeague Group B Standings (as of December 3, 2011) encouraged to head to the Annex with 13 points.

Sir John A. Cumber Primary Field this Saturday, December have secured maximum points so 10 beginning at 9:00 a.m. as the Under 9 Division far in Group A although they face best schools in the CUC Primary Football set their a Group tough they Won A: assignment whenPlayed Drew League Lost GF out GA on Points face Truth For Youth in their final journey to lift the coveted Under Sir John A. Cumber Primary 5 5 0 0 18 4 15 regular season game sometime 9 and Under 11 Champions Cup Bodden Town Primary 6 4 0 2 15 12 12 this week prior to the first day 3 trophies.

St. Ignatius Prep 5 1 1 13 5 10 The 2011/2012 PFL Playoffs ofSavannah Playoffs on Saturday.

This Primary 6 2 League 10 7 8 2011/2012 CUC 2Primary2Football penultimate game will determine George Town Primary 6 1 recommence 2 3 on Saturday, 10 11 January 5 League Standings (as of December 3, 2011) 7, 2012 for both the Champions final placement in Group A. Cayman International School 6 1 1 4 7 12 4 Final league standings4 and 0 Cups0 and4 Consolation Truth for Youth 0 21 0Cups updated scores for the season following the holiday break.

Under 11 Division

Under 9 Division Group A:

Played

Won

Drew

Lost

GF

GA

Points

Sir John A. Cumber Primary

5

5

0

0

18

4

15

Played

Won

Drew

Lost

GF

GA

Points

5 6 6 5 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

5 6 5 4 3 4 3 2 2 1 0 1 0 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0

0 0 1 1 1 1 2 4 4 4 5 4 5 5

32 42 18 13 20 21 14 8 21 8 3 2 1 8

3 1 6 4 5 18 9 16 18 16 37 22 34 24

15 18 15 12 9 12 9 6 6 4 1 4 1 3

12

4

4

0

0

4

0

21

0

Sir John A. Cumber Primary Cayman Prep George Town Primary South Sound Schools Truth for Youth Grace Academy St. Ignatius Prep NorthEast Schools Bodden Town Primary Triple C Savannah Primary Prospect Primary Cayman Int’l School Red Bay Primary

Played

Won

Drew

Lost

GF

GA

Points

Group B:

Bodden Town Primary

6

4

0

2

15

12

12

St. Ignatius Prep

5

3

1

1

13

5

10

Savannah Primary

Group A: Group B:

2011/2012 CUC 2Primary2Football 6 2 League 10

George Town Primary

6 1 2 3 10 League Standings (as of December 3, 2011) Cayman International School 6 1 1 4 7 Truth for Youth

7

8

11

5

Under 11 Division Group A: Group B: Sir John A. Cumber Primary

5

5

0

0

32

3

15

Cayman Prep

5

4

1

0

11

5

13

CaymanTown PrepPrimary George

66

56

00

10

42 18

61

18 15

Red Bay Primary

5

3

1

1

9

5

10

Southfor Sound Schools Truth Youth

45

34

00

11

13 20

54

912

Triple C

5

3

0

2

21

11

9

Grace Academy St. Ignatius Prep

55

34

00

21

21 14

918

912

Grace Academy

5

1

1

3

10

10

4

1

1

3

NorthEast Schools Bodden Town Primary

66

22

00

44

8 21

16 18

66

Prospect Primary

5

Triple C Primary Savannah

66

01

11

54

38

16 37

14

NorthEast Schools

5Primary Football 0 League2Representative: 3

ProspectInt’l Primary Cayman School

66

01

11

54

12

22 34

14

6

1

0

5

8

24

3

Red Bay Primary

22

6

21

4

4

9

2

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Kenny considers Spearing appeal appeal against the sending-off.

“You need to ask them what their interpretation is,” said the Liverpool manager. “It’s frustrating as noone ever tells us what the level of acceptance is.

“Jay had no other thought in his mind other than to win the ball.

And he did win it.” Spearing, who was starting in place of the injured Lucas, is now facing a three-match suspension.

And when asked if the midfielder deserved to be red carded, Dalglish added: “I am not a referee. Sometimes they are given, sometimes they aren’t. As long as they are consistent then it isn’t a problem.

“Jay will be upset, obviously.

But we’ll have a look and see if it’s worthwhile appealing.

“He has won the ball, he has probably upset the referee for the follow-through. He has won the ball first and it’s not his fault someone

KENNY DALGLISH has revealed Liverpool FC will consider appealing Jay Spearing’s red card as their unbeaten run was ended in controversial circumstances.

Clint Dempsey’s goal five minutes from time consigned 10-man Liverpool FC to a 1-0 defeat at Fulham last night. It was Liverpool’s first defeat in 12 games and leaves them five points adrift of fourth place and a Champions League qualification berth.

The flashpoint of the evening came in the 72nd minute when referee Kevin Friend dismissed Spearing following a strong challenge on Fulham midfielder Mousa Dembele, despite the Liverpool man clearly winning the ball.

And Dalglish has called for officials to state what is deemed an acceptable tackle as he pondered an

else is standing there. Sometimes it results in a red and sometimes you get away with them.

“You can go through every referee decision and find a problem the problem everyone has at the

moment is the level of consistency with the interpretation. “If the referees could explain the level of acceptance and what their tolerance level is, then it’s helpful to everyone.

We know where we stand.”

UK auditors warn Olympic budget is on the edge LONDON (AP) — U.K. Olympic organizers run a risk of exceeding their 9.3 billion-pound ($14.6 billion) budget for hosting the 2012 London games and have little room left for unforeseen costs, Britain’s spending watchdog warned Tuesday.

The National Audit Office report concluded that while the venues are on time and largely complete, “not everything is rosy.” The report came as British Olympic officials announced that they had doubled the funding for security operations at venues, raising overall security costs for the 2012 Games to more than 1

billion pounds ($1.6 billion).

“The government is confident that there is money available to meet known risks, but, in my view, the likelihood that the games can still be funded within the existing 9.3 billion-pound public sector funding package is so finely balanced that there is a real risk more money will be needed,” said Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office.

If that’s the case, Olympic officials would be heading back hat in hand to British taxpapers who are already embroiled in tough economic times.

The Organization for Economic

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Cooperation and Development expects the U.K. economy to contract in this current quarter and in the first three months of 2012 and grow only 0.5 percent next year.

Britain’s National Audit Office, an independent organization, examines public spending on behalf of Parliament.

Just hours before the report, Olympics minister Hugh Robertson told reporters at a news conference that the London Games remained financially on track — and within budget contingency planning despite the increased security costs. But the new security costs will certainly become a sensitive political issue.

“We’re confident we can do this and remain on budget,” Robertson said.

But the auditors noted that only 500 million pounds ($785 million) remains unallocated for dealing with future costs — a fact that will alarm ministers already trying

to stem public anger over cuts in pensions, social services and national programs. Security and transport costs figured among the question marks in the future.

The increase comes after security reviews suggested the initial estimate of 10,000 security guards for the games would not be enough.

Thousands of soldiers are now part of the planning, though officials have declined to reveal the exact number.

Robertson made clear that security was not a negotiable item and that the British government was obligated to make sure it took every precaution to make the July 27-Aug. 12 event safe.

The government said an additional 271 million pounds ($424 million) has been allocated to making venues and other sensitive sites, such as hotels, more secure. That means the total cost of securing the venues has climbed to over 553 million pounds ($862 million).

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