Term Limit Review Committee has recommended moving the term limit from 7 to 10 years and doing away with the key employee provision in the current immigration law. ...

England and France completed their routes to the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Tuesday, England with a controversial win over the Ukraine and France faltering to Sweden. Wayne Rooney, returning from a two-match suspension, scored on 48 minutes to earn England a 1-0 success. But the Ukraine were denied an equaliser that clearly went over the line and was seen by everyone to be a goal apart from the officials. ...

A Christian teacher of my acquaintance says he would judge that belief in the Trinity is the fundamental belief-basis of the Christian Faith. This seems not to be a fashionable thing to say these days. People seem to be saying that when something is difficult to understand or visualise, or when it all seems rather abstract, it really can’t matter that much. And yet, those who do say such things are being inconsistent. Physicists and mathematicians are expected to know how important it is to get the reaction equations right, even when these are entirely invisible and abstract. You wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a nuclear reactor designed by someone who didn’t think these things were important. That is partly why independent scientists find it so hard to get adequate attention paid to their proposals; the scientific community cannot bear to think they haven’t already got everything just about right. ...

The government faces another challenging year in crafting a budget to meet the demands of running the country, even as the economy continues to be in the doldrums we have got used to over the past three years. Persistent high employment, the closure of many small business, reduced activity in the rental property market and a general fall in business confidence are but some the issues that have kept our fina ...

[caption id="attachment_802" align="alignleft" width="196" caption="Rashaun Conolly"][/caption] Rashaun Conolly is an athlete who has been involved in track and field for over a year and a half. “I wanted to compete for my country one day and I worked and trained hard until I achieved that goal,” he told Cayman Net News. He recently represented the Cayman Islands in the 100m in the Caribbean Union of Teache ...

As the Cayman Islands this week played host to the first meeting of the Caribbean Association of Prosecutors, Attorney General Hon Sam Bulgin has called on regional prosecutors and law enforcement officials to embrace the trend towards greater reliance on forensic evidence. ...

The Cayman Islands Sailing Club hosted the fourth annual Stormchaser dinghy regatta on the weekend of 9-10 June. The Stormchaser regatta was introduced to mark the arrival of the Hurricane season and takes place in June every year. It is one of only two regattas held during the year where different classes of sailing boat sail together. Once again the weather didn’t disappoint for this year’s Dinghy and Cat ...

The Cayman Islands Civil Service College (CSC) has been recognised as one of the top government programmes in the hemisphere, according to the E-Learning! publication. The CSC’s Cayman Leadership Academy initiative was listed amongst the 2012 public sector honourees, in the company of agencies such as the American Heart Association, the US Department of Veteran Affairs, Texas A&M University and Vanderbi ...

Cayman hosts the newly formed Caribbean Association of Prosecutors’ first meeting, with a forensic workshop as its highlight, on Thursday and Friday, 14-15 June at the Marriott Resort on Grand Cayman. Thirty-nine delegates from the Caribbean British Overseas Territories and the Commonwealth Caribbean countries as well as the UK and Canada will participate along with 23 local delegates, comprising prosecutor ...

Satire and dramatic irony are the hallmarks of the latest work by Caymanian author and historian Roy Bodden. The book, 'A Gathering of Old Men', is being launched today (Saturday, 9 June). In this work, Mr Bodden shines the spotlight on Cayman's economy, with a critical look at the financial sector and provides a historical perspective into economic and cultural pursuits including shipbuilding, turtling and sailing. ...