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In a renewed appeal to the public, a group of Cayman sea captains have presented a proposal to build cruise-ship and mega-yacht berthing, accompanied by cargo facilities on an artificial island in South Sound.

The idea, most recently discussed at a 17 September gathering at the Grand Caymanian Resort, was renewed yesterday by alliance leader Reginald “Choppy” Delapenha, West Bay businessman and 2009 independent political candidate, who said he would present the proposal, variously known as the “South Sound Seaport” and the “Red Bay Development” to government.“Once again, it seems that we are going forward with another major and costly project without the full knowledge of the pros and cons of all the options available to the country,” Mr Delapenha said, describing an alternative to current proposals to build cruise berths in George Town.

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Marchers quietly gathered in George Town yesterday at this year’s Silent Witness March.

The theme was “The Power To Make a Difference – Through Action” and organisers, Business and Professional Women’s Club, handed out red silhouettes representing victims of domestic violence.

The march seeks to draw attention to the human rights abuses associated with violence against women and began as a determination to remember 26 women in the United States, whose lives had been lost in 1990 as a result of domestic violence.

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“I want to shine a light into people’s lives,” says 26-year-old singer/songwriter Andrea Rivera.

Ms Rivera, who started singing semi-professionally ten years ago with local band the Heat, is currently working on her debut album, Musical Love Affair, which will be released in a few months.

Although Cayman’s musical chart-topping band the iZ have been helping her produce the album and have even taken a hand in writing some of the material, Ms Rivera has written most of the songs herself.

“The music on the album is going to be varied,” Ms Rivera says. “There’s going to be Caribbean pop, reggae and I do have a bit of dance music as well,” she said.

“Most of my songs are from personal experiences or experiences my friends have told me about from situations they have had in their life. I definitely like to write songs that have a meaning and purpose, hopefully to inspire and bring hope into people’s lives. I hope to make an impact with my music,” she said.

Ms Rivera also believes that she is an inspiration because of her positive outlook on life, a sentiment expressed in ‘I’m a Diva,’ a song written especially for Ms Rivera by iZ member Lonnie Love.

“My concept of being a diva doesn’t necessarily involve having material things, or being rich and fabulous. It can be that, but it’s also just about your personality - being very confident, being very sure of who you are as a person. And that’s who I feel that I am. When I hit the stage that’s when I feel that I come to life. I feel like I’m actually living,’” she said.

“I certainly feel that you should look upon life as a journey, and anything is possible really. I am a dreamer and I do believe that you can change lives, once you’re a more positive person you can definitely make a difference to someone’s life,” Ms Rivera added.

“Recently I’ve found that the music in the industry is getting a little dark – I don’t mean dark as in ‘bad’ but I hope to bring more light to my music.”

Ms Rivera has loved singing as long as she can remember.

“I had a passion for music from the age of four,” she said. “I sang pretty much anything but my biggest influences as a child would have been Michael Jackson and Bob Marley. The most wonderful experience I’ve ever had so far was performing at the Jazz Fest 2009 when I opened for Alisha Keys. I performed with a 10-piece band.

“The new album is all about Andrea’s love affair with music, but also about her life experiences.”

The track ‘Are You a Real Man’, is a one-drop reggae number which gives a twist to the traditional definition of a tough macho-man. Ms Rivera feels that other qualities are more important.

“It has to do with some women’s experiences: It’s maybe about a single parent and the father is not taking

on his responsibilities as a father, or possibly it’s about abuse too. My definition of a man is someone who knows how to treat a woman right,” Andrea added.

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FIFA drops charges against Fredericks

GENEVA (AP) — FIFA banned senior Caribbean official Horace Burrell for six months on Friday for the Jamaican’s part in a bribery case involving former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam, plunging the region’s soccer authorities deeper into chaos.However FIFA said it dropped

cases against David Fredericks of the Cayman Islands and Joseph Delves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines because they had left the sport.“Should they return to football

official positions, their cases would be examined again by the ethics committee,” FIFA said in a statement.FIFA did not give the officials

the same “presumption of innocence” it accorded Warner in June when the 28-year executive committee veteran resigned rather than face sanctions.Burrell is a long-time ally of

former FIFA vice president Jack Warner and a member of FIFA’s disciplinary committee, must now withdraw from the Caribbean Football Union presidential election scheduled for next month.Since the bribery scandal

broke in May, the CONCACAF continental body has seen its top three elected Caribbean officials — Warner, Burrell and Lisle Austin — either resign while under investigation or be banned by FIFA.FIFA’s ethics committee ruled

three months of the Jamaican federation president’s ban will be deferred for a probationary period of two years.Burrell said in a statement that

Friday’s actions “are harsh and painful for me personally, but I will not appeal the decision, considering the relative levity of the sanction and the cause for which it was handed down.”



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“For many years these islands have struggled with indecision and political posturing and we are now seeing the result of that, declining cruise arrivals and hence the closure of some downtown businesses,” he said.

The proposal foresees a basin 3,000 feet from shore, measuring 2,000 feet from north to south, 4,000 feet from east to west and accommodating five cruise ships, two 1,200-foot “Oasis Class” vessels and three “Freedom Class” vessels.

Included in the plans is 2,000 feet of cargo berthing incorporating a “roll-on, roll-off “ facility between 100 feet wide and 200 feet wide.

A 500-foot-wide channel, excavated to 40 feet, and positioned at a 45-degree angle to the sea, bordered by breakwaters, would admit boats, which would pivot inside the basin, reversing into their berths. An early version of the design envisioned up to 28 mega-yachts at the end of the area, opposite the entrance, although the latest iteration suggests only 20 of the luxury vessels.

A 150-foot wide causeway would connect to Linford Pierson Highway, enabling movement of passengers, cargo, crew and workers.

“I want to talk about these ideas,” Mr Delapenha said, citing support and design help from captains and seagoing veterans Paul Hurlstone, Bryan

Ebanks, Alin McCoy and Bob Soto.“This does not deal with the technical

aspects” of building in South Sound, he said, including the costs of reclaiming land and creating an artificial island, its proximity to residential areas and the reconstruction of road and utility networks linking the port to George Town and surrounding areas.

He contrasted this, however, with the George Town proposal: “While the downtown site has some port infrastructure, existing reef damage on the deep reefs and the existing retail investment, these must be contrasted with the total disruption of traffic, the destruction of the shallow snorkeling reefs and Balboa shipwreck, the continued and increasing conflict with cargo, the potential damage to Seven Mile Beach, the closure during northwesters, the proximity to the

drop-off and the difficulty of building in very deep water all bring into question whether we are making a good decision for the country’s future placing a dock there.

“None of these issues seem to be under consideration as we rush to build there,” Mr Delapenha said. “We think they all should be considered and a rational decision made prior to investing hundreds of millions of government money.

Premier McKeeva Bush has said he will sign next month an agreement with Beijing’s China Harbour Engineering Company for construction of cruise berths in George Town, a Cayman Turtle Farm visitor’s dock and a bad-weather passenger pier at Spotts Landing.

The Delapenha group’s caymancruiseport.com website says, however, the Red Bay site, because of the shallow South Sound waters, will be “significantly less expensive to build” than George Town, will pay for itself, combat traffic congestion and eliminate the need for the Spotts pier.

“The new facility will not cater to any duty-free retail, thus maintaining George Town as the shopping capital. The Red Bay location will increase business for all, as more passengers can now call in port on more days. Taxis and bus companies will have more work and options and the Island can finally host mega-yachts,” the site claims.

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NHDT official arrested for fraud

A National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) official has been arrested at his George Town home amidst allegations of fraud.It is believed that the man

is accused of manipulating his position of trust to sell insurance to applicants who applied to buy homes on the recently completed East End site.The RCIPS has confirmed

that an investigation has been launched into allegations of misconduct within the National Housing Development Trust“As part of that investigation a

59-year-old man was arrested at his home in the George Town area this morning, Monday 17 October 2011. He was arrested in terms of sections 13 and 17 of the Anti-Corruption Law 2010 for breach of trust and abuse of public office, as well as suspicion of obtaining property by deception.”Police have not named

the man in question and no criminal charges have been filed in the case as yet.It is thought that the man

arrested for deception and corruption was also a UDP official and that he is one of only three remaining members of the NHDT board after several recent resignations. A private government

company, the NHDT’s mandate is to assist low-income families in home ownership.As the investigation is

currently ongoing, the police said they could not comment further on the case at this stage.

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Bangkok may face new eastern flood frontBANGKOK (AP) — Floodwaters pressed toward Bangkok on several fronts Tuesday as soldiers and residents raced to pile sandbags and officials sounded a new alarm about vulnerable areas east of the capital near the international airport.

Much of the efforts in recent days have been aimed at shoring up defenses along Bangkok’s northern perimeter, facing the brunt of runoff from inland areas where Thailand’s worst flooding in a half-century has killed 315 people. Officials added concerns Tuesday about a new front: a flood plain

near Suvarnabhumi Airport.Droves of civilians joined

soldiers in desperate dike-building efforts after Bangkok’s governor delivered a dramatic late-night TV warning that the city had until late Wednesday to lay down 1 million sandbags to protect an especially vulnerable 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) stretch.

“When the governor said we had 48 hours left, I thought we could not just wait until the water arrived, so I took a day off and volunteered,” said Suriya Termchoksap, 39, who took the day off from his job at

IBM to help build a dike along a key canal.

North of the city of 9 million people, the government has meanwhile been fighting a losing battle against floods in communities where residents have been trapped on the upper floors of their homes.

Clinton in Libya to offer new aid packageTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday increased U.S. support for Libya’s new leaders as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made an unannounced visit to Tripoli and pledged millions of dollars in new aid, including medical care for wounded fighters and additional assistance to secure weaponry that many fear could fall into the hands of terrorists.

U.S. officials said the fresh aid Clinton is bringing totals about $11 million and will boost Washington’s contribution to Libya since the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi began in February to roughly $135 million.

The officials told reporters traveling with Clinton that it is evidence of the administration’s commitment to working with the National Transitional Council as it consolidates control over the entire country and moves to hold free and fair elections.

Clinton met Tuesday with Mahmoud Jibril, who has taken over as Libya’s prime minister, and interim leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil.

“Now the hard part begins,” Clinton said heading into the meeting, a reference to the country’s transition to democracy.

As part of the new aid package, the U.S. will re-launch several educational

programs, including Fulbright scholarships and English language training, and help fund an archeological project that will survey eastern Libya, the officials said.

Crime ‘driving Jamaicans crazy’KINGSTON, (AP): Dr Aggrey Irons, the president of the Medical Association of Jamaica, believes many Jamaicans are suffering from mental illnesses brought on by the country’s high crime rate.

Speaking Friday at a Mental Health Day symposium at the Alhambra Inn in Kingston, Irons said that Jamaica’s reluctance to directly address mental illnesses caused by crime was only compounding the country’s problems.

“We seem to forget that violence which leads to the absence of peace, something that we live with every day, makes us all anxious,” said Irons.

“We pretend that it (crime) doesn’t

exist; we continue to grille our doors and lock ourselves away. But violence is one of the principal mental health issues in our country,” noted the psychiatrist, likening Jamaica’s violence to racism, which “continues to fuel madness” worldwide.

“Have we forgotten that our mental health is at its best when we feel national pride, joy, opportunities for peace and prosperity?” he asked.

Irons said that Spanish Town in St Catherine — due to its high crime rate, and the brutality of criminal elements in the parish — has the highest need for mental health care islandwide.

In July, within the space of one week, three persons, including a mother and daughter, were beheaded by gangsters in the tough Spanish Town community of Lauriston.

The incidents left residents cowering in fear.



A government website has been set up (www.cabinetoffice.gov.ky) where

the public is being invited to respond to eight main questions on the relationship the Cayman Islands has with the UK. The questions are: Challenges - Economic Development; Challenges - Everyday Life; Challenges - Politics & Government; Cooperation with the UK; Governance, financial management and economic planning; External Support; Cooperation between Territories; and Global profile of the Cayman Islands. Within these questions are a number of others and you add your response to the main questions in words that must not exceed 1800 characters. The website actually states there are six main questions so which two of the eight listed are not part of the main six is unknown.

The website follows the United Kingdom’s announcement it is reviewing its relationship with its overseas territories aiming to release a white paper next year outlining a new strategy in dealing with them. An earlier white paper on the subject was published in 1999.

Our Premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush said, “I urge every member of the public to take this opportunity the UK has provided and speak up. Do visit the webpage and learn for yourselves what the UK is proposing with the new White Paper 2012. It will define the relationship with each of the overseas territories since one size cannot fit all.”

Mr. Bush will need this information fairly quickly as he going to deliver it in London at the Overseas Territories Consultative Council meeting in late November.

On a number of occasions Mr. Bush has shown his

inclination towards independence for the Cayman Islands from the UK saying he was tired of their ‘interference,’ ‘the goal posts have changed’ and that independence was an “inevitable step.” He even said, “(our children) are not going to be as tolerant as we have been to the administering powers.” However, he did caution at a public meeting in West Bay last week that he was not calling for independence. “I want the commission to fulfil its role to let people know the consequences of an independent Cayman,” he said.

The older Caymanians (some would say wiser) do not want Independence. They look at how history has a habit of repeating itself in nearly all the Caribbean countries that have taken that route. Poverty, misery and corruption have been the result. The young Caymanians are fed a daily diet of discontentment with our Mother and her ‘iron fist rule’ without any interest in their Overseas Territories. It amazes me to see some people actually believe the UK were wrong to go into Turks and Caicos Islands to end the rule of the staggeringly corrupt governing bodies. Are these people still unaware of what was going on there? One such person who said this on a local blog called the UK ‘dictators’ and actually found 49 people who agreed with him!

The middle aged are much more divided. The power hungry want independence now, the banking community and most businessmen are worried of its consequences and the rest either keep an open mind or are undecided.

I expect the ones who do the most shouting lauding the “dictatorship” and “interference” banner under our Mother will eventually win. Then they will really find out what “dictatorship” is about!

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MY BLESSINGSAs I lie here in my hammock totally at ease

I can hear the sound of nature and feel a gentle breeze,The roar of traffic and sirens can be heard

But is soon forgotten with the sound of chirping birds.

From the great almond the leaves are fallingAnd in the distance the parrots calling.

Through my windows I can seeThe trees full of blossoms for the birds and bees.

Huge trees too beautiful for wordsPlanted to give shade and a home for the birds,

Chimes are all around and ringingBirds are in the air and singing.

White clouds above in the great blue yonderFills me with awe and makes me wonder.

The swing in my garden gives me great pleasureAnd reminds me that I have a treasure

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Higgs & Johnson supports Pink Ladies 32nd Annual Christmas BazaarHiggs & Johnson, Attorneys-at-Law, have supported the Pink Ladies Volunteer Corps Cayman Islands in their Christmas Bazaar preparation.

Since the early 1980’s, the Pink Ladies have been raising funds and volunteering for the NCVO, Pines Retirement Home, Health Services Authority, Lighthouse School, Special Olympics and other community projects. The activities that the Pink Ladies participate in are quite varied and diverse, with the funds being immediately returned to the Community through a variety of projects.

One of the longstanding fundraisers associated with this remarkable group of women is their Annual Christmas Bazaar. This year’s 32nd Annual Christmas Bazaar will be held on Saturday, November 26, 2011 at

Camana Bay.Mrs. Rhett Arch, Bazaar Coordinator

for the Pink Ladies, was on hand to meet with attorneys at Higgs & Johnson and receive the donation. Mrs. Arch expressed her gratitude and indicated that the Pink Ladies are expecting this year’s Bazaar to offer exciting options for Christmas shoppers, who also want

to support an excellent cause.Ms Gina Berry, Partner at Higgs

& Johnson, commented that the firm was proud to be associated with such amazing women. Ms Berry went on to indicate that volunteers like the tireless Olive Miller, one of the founders of Pink Ladies, were true role models.

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Savannah residents welcome LCTG Breast Cancer Campaign

The Lions Clubs of Tropical Gardens hosted the 2nd meeting of their annual Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign at the Savannah Primary School. The presenters were Dr Andrew Robinson from the Chrissie Tomlinson Memorial Hospital and Ms. Andrea Hill, Nutritionist at Kirks Supermarket. The meeting commenced shortly after 7:30pm with over 60 women and two men in attendance.

In his presentation Dr Robinson outlined the facts on breast cancer

and urged the audience to know the risk factors and be vigilant with their health. One such way that they could become vigilant is to ensure that a nutritious diet is adopted and maintained. Ms. Andrea Hill of Kirk’s supermarket was on hand to ably outline the importance of nutrition for a healthy lifestyle. She encourages the audience to get in the habit of choosing healthier foods and maintaining a healthy lifestyle to minimize the risk of cancer. Ms. Hill informed the audience that she

was available on Monday afternoons and Friday mornings at Kirk’s supermarket to offer free advice on shopping for nutritious foods.

The audience expressed their gratitude to the Lions for hosting the meeting. The Lions treated the audience to a healthy snack while distributing mammogram vouchers. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Education the road to wellness”.

For more information on the campaign please visit the website at www.ltcgbreastcancerawareness.com.

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Semi finals of Cayman’s Got Talent - the local version of the American popular TV talent show - got underway at the Mary Miller Hall in George Town

With an impressive turnout, nearly filling the hall, the first contestant onstage was the highly talented Oscar Calidonio, who sang ‘If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time.’

Next, Orvin Palacio came onstage to sing the classic song ‘You Raise Me Up’, filling the hall with his strong, yet controlled baritone voice.

Mercita Dunkley, an established singer, came next with ‘Forever,’ a beautiful, yearning love song she has

penned herself. Da Spontanea Dance group, a group

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Romero Welcome changed the style of the evening’s musical entertainment with a hard-hitting R&B/Rap-style song.

It was great to see so many singers performing their own material - and Andrianna wowed the audience with ‘Hold the Vibes’ a song she had written herself.

Dressed in the colours of the Cayman Flag, The Cayman Islands Marching Band set up some great drumbeats to back their jazzy music from trumpets, saxophones and flutes. They were a marching band with a

difference, introducing some hot dance moves to the score, and generating some spontaneous applause from the audience to add to the beat.

Other singers included Joshua Barnes, Arron Martinez-Christian, Dellon Myles, Giselle Scott, Christopher Rankine, The Fab Two, Lloydd Barker, Cheyenne Tibbetts, Jamesette Anglin, Georgette Isaac, and Topaz Groves.

The Xcitement Dancers were there too, with their high – energy dance act.

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The Cancer Society has played an integral

role in the kick-off and opening of our children’s Summer

Camp. Their Project Coordinator, Vicki

Anderson, attended our first week of

Summer Camp and spoke to our campers about the importance

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While the pupils were filing into their places, Tante remained in the aisle fanning her majestically, and surveying them with a benignant smile. When all were seated, with a graceful little bend she glided into her place at the end, the motion of sitting down and the bend fused into one in a manner known only to her.

Anne’s strong idealism, shown in her vivid although mistaken conceptions of Shakspeare’s women, was now turned into the channel of opera music. After hearing several operas, she threw herself into her Italian songs with so much fervor that Belzini sat aghast; this was not the manner in which demoiselles of private life should sing. Tante, passing one day (by the merest chance, of course) through the drawing room while Anne was singing, paused a moment to listen. “Ma fille,” she said, when the song was ended, tapping Anne’s shoulder affably, “give no more expression to the Italian words you sing than to the syllables of your scales. Interpretations are not required.” The old Frenchwoman always put down with iron hand what she called the predominant tendency toward too great freedom—sensationalism—in young girls. She spent her life in a constant struggle with the American “jeune fille.”

During this time Rast wrote regularly; but his letters, not being authorized by Miss

Vanhorn, Anne’s guardian, passed first through the hands of one of the teachers, and the knowledge of this inspection naturally dulled the youth’s pen. But Anne’s letters to him passed the same ordeal without change in word or in spirit. Miss Lois and Dr. Gaston wrote once a week; Père Michaux contented himself with postscripts added to the long, badly spelled, but elaborately worded epistles with which Mademoiselle Tita favored her elder sister. It was evident to Anne that Miss Lois was having a severe winter.

The second event in Anne’s school life was the gaining of a friend.

At first it was but a musical companion. Helen Lorrington lived not far from the school; she was one of Tante’s old scholars, and this Napoleon of teachers especially liked this pupil, who was modelled after her own heart. Helen held what may be called a woman’s most untrammelled position in life, namely, that of a young widow, protected but not controlled, rich, beautiful, and without children. She was also heir to the estate of an eccentric grandfather, who detested her, yet would not allow his money to go to any collateral branch. He detested her because her father was a Spaniard, whose dark eyes had so reprehensibly fascinated his little Dutch daughter that she had unexpectedly plucked up courage to marry in spite of the paternal prohibition, and not only that, but to be very happy also during the short portion of life allotted to her afterward. The young Spanish husband, with an unaccountable indifference to the wealth for which he was supposed to have plotted so perseveringly, was pusillanimous enough to die soon afterward, leaving only one little pale-faced child, a puny girl, to inherit the money. The baby Helen had never possessed the dimples and rose tints that make the beauty of childhood; the girl Helen had not the rounded

curves and peach-like bloom that make the beauty of youth. At seventeen she was what she was now; therefore at seventeen she was old. At twenty-seven she was what she was then; therefore at twenty-seven she was young.

She was tall, and extremely, marvellously slender; yet her bones were so small that there were no angles visible in all her graceful length. She was a long woman; her arms were long, her throat was long, her eyes and face were long. Her form, slight enough for a spirit, was as natural as the swaying grasses on a hillside. She was as flexible as a ribbon. Her beauties were a regally poised little head, a delicately cut profile, and a remarkable length of hair; her peculiarities, the color of this hair, the color of her skin, and the narrowness of her eyes. The hue of her hair was called flaxen; but it was more than that—it was the color of bleached straw. There was not a trace of gold in it, nor did it ever shine, but hung, when unbound, a soft even mass straight down below the knee. It was very thick, but so fine that it was manageable; it was never rough, because there were no short locks. The complexion, which accompanied this hair, was white, with an under-tint of ivory. There are skins with under-tints of pink, of blue, and of brown; but this was different in that it shaded off into cream, without any indication of these hues. This soft ivory-color gave a shade of fuller richness to the slender straw-haired woman —An effect increased by the hue of the eyes, when visible under the long light lashes. For Helen’s eyes were of a bright dark unexpected brown. The eyes were so long and narrow, however, that generally only a line of bright brown looked at you when you met their gaze. Small features, narrow cheeks, delicate lips, and little milk-white teeth, like a child’s, completed this face which never had a red tint, even the lips being but faintly colored.

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OK, I confess to being a foodie. No, not one of those arty types who likes having a vast continent of white plate with a couple of small islands of food in a small sea of something we used to call gravy but is now called jus – I mean hearty, filling food which costs considerable less than the designer stuff, especially when you consider that, having finished your 17-course “fine dining” meal you need to call at the next fast food joint to fill the gaps.

In a way, we are lucky in the UK for being so completely cosmopolitan.

You can find food from any country you care to name (though frequently its authenticity is open to debate).

There is a downside to this, however. On one of our cruises we met a nice couple from Twenty-Nine Palms, California. The following year they were coming to the UK for a vacation and emailed to organise a meeting. We’d had some light-hearted banter about food on the cruise – I seem to remember some jibes about McDonalds – so we would, we decided, treat them to traditional English cuisine when they visited.

We could have done (and in retrospect should have done) a pub or a fish and chip restaurant, but we wanted something a bit more up-market. We searched our brains and found nothing – that’s not too surprising; there’s a lot of vacant space in mine – so we tried the good old Internet. I Googled “traditional English restaurant Cheshire” and one popped up at the top of the list containing exactly those words. I clicked and clicked and eventually found “Sample Menu” – that click produced a page starting with “Lasagne” and continuing with “Beef Stroganoff” – traditional English????

Anyway, back to the subject,

Ian. Last evening we decided on Indian food. We went to our local favourite in Warrington – built in an old cottage that was once used by Oliver Cromwell, hence its name The Cottage – only to find it fully booked, so we went in search of another. Now I should add at this point that Warrington is to food as Alaska is to wearing bikinis, so the search was always going to be fraught. We like good food, as I said, and have been to so many restaurants that have niggled and niggled at us with poor food, poor service, inflated prices and so on. We go in open-minded and end up complaining about the place. For all I know, we are blacklisted now as habitual complainers, but I’d rather tell places what I believe is wrong in the hope the situation will improve. They, on the other hand, seem to think I’m after a reduction in the bill and that their food/service/prices are perfect.

We ended up at a place in Stockton Heath, a one-time village that has been absorbed by the spread of Warrington but has been reinventing itself with some trendy shops, bars and restaurants. The turnover is rapid, with new establishments opening all the time, usually at the expense of something that didn’t work. We found a place called Cardamom and were warmly welcomed by the staff. It was busy, but they had several tables unoccupied so we were able to find a place. The food was excellent, but again a few niggles started to creep in. One of my forksful of my Special Biryani had a sharp sliver of chicken bone, despite the chicken being quoted as “boned”. The accompanying curry sauce had sweet peppers in it; very delicious until one turned out to be a whole green chilli pepper, seeds and all. It nearly blew my mouth apart. The place claimed fresh and authentic ingredients and recipes, yet when it

came time for desserts, they could only offer Ben and Jerry’s ice creams straight from the freezer, whereas by craving was for gulab jamun or rasmali. We asked if they had mango lassi but they did not. Finally, when we came to pay, their card machine was not working, so they needed cash or a cheque, neither of which we had enough of to pay, so I had to go out to an ATM to get cash.

Now all those niggles would normally have me moving into complaint mode. But not this time. They apologised for the bone and the chilli, despite the fact the bone was simple human error and the latter my own stupid fault. They apologised for the lassi and the frozen desserts, assuring us that if we came again and phoned ahead they would be there. They apologised for the card machine – I suggested they change the place’s name to Amom since they had no card – and said we could mail them a cheque or pay next time we came. And, as I said, the food itself was superb.

So where did that leave us? Where we’d been so many times, annoyed with little niggles and swearing never to go back? Not a bit of it. They were so friendly, so human, so customer-focussed that we know we’ll go again. We’ll tell people about it. We’ll take friends. In short, they made us feel valued and special. Herein was a lesson in life – don’t criticise people for their mistakes, or even their shortcomings if they care, if they are like us: imperfect, fallible but human and friendly. If only the positive about people influenced us more than the negatives what a better world this would be.

But it takes thought to see the good when it’s all too easy to see the bad. Sure, this realisation made me feel some humility for my own frequent intolerance, but it also gave me a warm feeling that I’d been with new friends and that maybe my own faults are tolerable too.

Food, glorious foodIan [email protected]

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Mourant Ozannes has been named ‘Best Offshore Law Firm - Client Service’ at the HFMWeek US Hedge Fund Services Awards 2011. This follows the firm winning the same client service accolade at the HFMWeek European Hedge Fund Services Awards earlier this year.

The winners of the US awards, which were announced at a ceremony held at Cipriani’s in New York on Thursday 13 October, were recognised for outstanding performance from June 2010 to July 2011.

The awards featured a number of categories that spanned the best and most cutting edge hedge fund service providers in the US marketplace, including the onshore and offshore legal, administration, accountancy, advisory, insurance and technology sectors.

The awards were judged by a panel of independent senior industry representatives who

took into consideration financial progress, growth and innovation in order to put together a shortlist and identify the eventual winners of each category.

Neal Lomax, Mourant Ozannes’ Cayman Islands Managing Partner, collected the award on behalf of the firm. He said:

“We are delighted by this latest accolade for our Cayman funds

practice, which continues to grow and go from strength to strength, with a number of significant senior appointments this year. We aim to differentiate ourselves on client service so it is very pleasing indeed to receive this award from such a respected hedge fund publication, which recognises the expertise and quality of service provided by our lawyers.”

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At the awards event Lucy Guest of HFMWeek (L) and Naga Munchetty Financial Journalist with BBC World (R), flank Mourant Ozannes’ Cayman Islands Managing Partner Neal Lomax.

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Gardening is my favourite past time but I do not normally garden with my eye glasses on. However, on Monday 10th October I found myself gardening (and yes) with my glasses on. I immediately removed them and put them on the back bumper of my car – a Kia SUV. I finished my gardening and cleaning up my place and returned to upstairs to the living room of my house cool down and have some porridge (ummm) - I love hot porridge (oats). I then cooled my system down with three fans on me whilst I lay on the floor listening to Rooster 101.

Within half-hour I was under the shower and dressed ready to do my usual thing (shop, visit, etc.). It was

then I started to look for my glasses. I looked everywhere. No glasses to be found. So, I found an old pair, put them on and carefully drove out of my property just wondering where in the world my missing glasses could be – where did I put them?

As I drove out onto the highway in the vicinity of the bank, HSBC, I suddenly remembered where I had placed my glasses. In a safe place you can bet - on the back bumper of my Kia! She was safely parked so it was OK to put my glasses on her bumper wouldn’t you think? Sure that was OK if I had remembered to take them off when my gardening was finished!

Anyway, as soon as I remembered where I had so stupidly placed them I quickly did a quick turn around into KIRK’s

Supermarket and headed right back to see if I could find them. Find them?! Oh yes, I found them! But guess where? As I approached Helen Drive, in the middle turning lane of the West Bay Road, there they were. The lenses had turned very dark at this point in time as the sun was very hot. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I quickly put on my headlights and blinkers and parked in that middle lane, got out and ran to pick them up. No vehicle had driven over them. Can you believe it?? And I didn’t cause an accident. And my glasses are fine. And I am so happy. That’s my strange story. Strange? Do you know how much traffic travels down the West Bay Road? And they had landed in the middle turning lane? Strange but thankfully true.

Eye (on) glassesJoan [email protected]



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.

To book a session or to obtain more information, please contact Victoria Anderson by calling 949-7618 or 916-7108. Alternatively, you may email [email protected]

Cayman Islands Cancer Society Presentation Synopsis

1.Breast Cancer – What You Need To KnowBreast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and it can also strike men. Find out what you need to know - what it is, risk factors and how to reduce the likelihood of developing it, signs and symptoms, screening recommendations and more.

2.Cancer Prevention – The Seven Steps to Cancer Risk ReductionCancer is one of the most common diseases in the world today but did you know that you could reduce your risk of developing cancer by changing your lifestyle? Attend this presentation and find out the steps you can take to reduce your cancer risk.

3.Colorectal Cancer – What You Need To KnowThis talk will give you all the facts about colorectal cancer – what it is, risk factors and how to reduce the likelihood of developing it, signs and symptoms, screening recommendations and more. Don’t die of embarrassment – attending this talk could save your life!

4.Female Cancers (1) – Cervical Cancer & HPVThis 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 KnowThis 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 KnowLung 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 likelihood of developing it, signs and symptoms, screening recommendations and more.

7.Male Cancers – Prostate & Testicular – What You Need To KnowThis talk will give you all the facts on the cancers that are unique to men. Find out what they are, risk factors

and how to reduce the likelihood of developing them, signs and symptoms, screening recommendations and more.

8.Physical Activity, Diet and Disease PreventionThe amount of physical activity you do and your diet influences your risk of developing many chronic lifestyle diseases including cancer. Find out what you need to know about physical activity, diet and health by attending this very interactive presentation.

9.Skin Cancer – What You Need To KnowFind out what you need to know - what it is, risk factors and how to reduce the likelihood of developing it, signs and symptoms, screening recommendations and more.

10.Smoking CessationAre you ready to quit using tobacco products? If you are then this presentation will provide you with tools you can use in your quit attempt including hints on how to provide weight gain, strategies for helping you quit and more.This can either be presented as a single session or we can offer the full 6 week Smoking Cessation program to your organization or group.

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76ers officially sold to new owners

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers are under new management.The deal to sell the Sixers

to a group led by New York-based leveraged buyout specialist Joshua Harris has been completed. The Sixers will hold a press conference Tuesday to introduce the owners. The sale ends Comcast-Spectacor’s 15-year run of ownership.The group also includes

David Blitzer, Art Wrubel, and Jason Levien. Levien is a former NBA player agent and Sacramento Kings executive.NBA Commissioner David

Stern says Harris and Blitzer bring vast business experience that will greatly benefit the team as it continues to grow both on and off the court.Harris is one of three

founders of Apollo Global Management, a publicly listed alternative investment manager.Comcast-Spectacor, led

by chairman Ed Snider, purchased the Sixers from Harold Katz on April 24, 1996. Comcast-Spectacor also owns the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers.“Over the last 15 years, a

number of different individuals or entities have inquired about purchasing the Sixers, and to be honest, I was not looking to sell the team,” Snider said. “But in discussions with Josh and his partners, it became clear that this was an offer that made sense for the franchise and for the future of Comcast-Spectacor.Comcast-Spectacor also

owns the Wells Fargo Center. The Sixers will become a tenant in the building once the NBA lockout is over.



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The Cayman Islands Olympic Committee (CIOC) is pleased to announce that their scholarship recipient Jennifer Powell has graduated from the XIV Master Exécutif en Management des Organisations Sportives (MEMOS) Programme with her Executive Masters in Sport

Organization Management.Jennifer was one of 36 participants

selected for the programme, each from a different country.The MEMOS Programme consists of

three one-week residential modules, each lasting 6 days and scheduled over twelve months. Each module

took place in a different city; Jennifer traveled to Switzerland, Kenya and France where the course of study was placed under the joint responsibility of the scholar and of a professional. In addition to the lecture-based

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Jennifer Powell graduates with Executive Masters Degree

the current sport structure in the Cayman Islands and analysing how the CIOC can do their part to improve upon it, starting with the issue of communication. The task of this project was to

determine the capacity of the CIOC in improving the communication between its stakeholders and establishing the root of poor communication, while discovering the tools to strengthen these paths of interaction. The result of the project was

a CIOC Strategic Plan that includes tasks and goals to provide a physical reference for benchmarking progress towards better communication. This project considered the personal opinions of those stakeholders affected by such a plan with the hopes that any change will be widely accepted and encouraged.The main objectives of the

Strategic Plan are to provide a tool to guide the process of collaboration between organisations’ opinions, to improve relationships and to contribute to an efficient sport structure in its entirety. After defending her project and

Strategic Plan to a jury of esteemed Professors and Colleagues in World Sport Organizations at the end of her year, Jennifer received her diploma from the Université de Poitiers and was invited to give a final presentation in the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2011.Jennifer previously represented

Cayman, as well as her under-graduate school the University of Miami, in the sport of swimming. She is now working at the CIOC office in George Town. If you are interested in receiving a copy of her project in its entirety, a copy of the CIOC Strategic Plan or the slides of her final presentation please do not hesitate to contact the CIOC.

Louisa Galea (participant from Malta), Jennifer Powell, Hannes Maschkan (participant from Austria.

Jennifer Powell with her colleagues after graduation at the Olympic Museum; Louisa Galea, Hannes Maschkan, Sari Tuunainen (participant from Finland)


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Powerplay (CAY52) 2nd in the Rolex Big Boat Series regatta

PowerPlay skippered by Cayman Islands Sailing Club member, Peter Cunningham finished the 47th annual Rolex Big Boat Series regatta in San Francisco in 2nd place in the IRC A Division. The regatta, a major event on the racing circuit and attracting America’s Cup veterans, was hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club from September 8 to 11, 2011.

Racing in the IRC A Division and flying the Cayman Islands flag, PowerPlay was in fierce competition throughout the week with the other boats in its class, including the eventual winner, Vesper. Days 2 and 3 of racing proved to be some of the more memorable and physical days of racing, taking place in 20-25 knot winds consistently gusting to 30 knots.

The final day of racing brought sunshine and a single ‘Bay Tour’ distance race for all classes as well as a 9/11 tribute boat parade and canon salute before racing.

Commenting on the ‘Bay Tour’, Peter Cunningham said, “This has been more fun than other races. It was so close for us with Mayhem and the others, and these 52s make the Bay look small”. The class sailed 30 miles and Cunningham said there were some “interesting choices” on where to go. “We were first to Blossom Rock when the wind totally died with

a 2-3 knot current and the whole fleet condensed,” said Cunningham. “We were ahead of Vesper and Mayhem, and I had déjà vu all over again: if you get caught in that current...it was classic San Francisco, everything can change so easily.”

PowerPlay Racing was founded earlier this year by Peter Cunningham. It has an international world-class crew, and sails PowerPlay, a TP52 sailboat. The boat has been admirably representing the Cayman Islands in regattas on the East and West Coast of the US. Powerplay finished 2nd in class in the New York Yacht Club cup, 3rd in Block Island Race Week and won the Alex Alessio regatta in San Francisco.

Cayman sailors in the crew have included the Commodore of the Cayman Islands Sailing Club, Andrew Moon, and fellow sailors: David Carmichael, Matt Diaz, Simon Farrington and Tomeaka McTaggart.

PowerPlay Racing has had an exciting schedule of regattas in 2011, mostly in the US and the Caribbean, and is focused on competing in Europe in 2012.

PowerPlay Racing’s next events will be the Great Pumpkin Regatta in San Francisco (Oct. 29-30), the Wirth Monroe Race to Palm Beach in Florida (Dec. 2-4), and Key West Race Week in Florida (Jan. 16-20). For more

information, photos, and to keep up to date with the team, please go to www.powerplay.ky.

For more information please contact Charles Grover, Communications Officer at the Cayman Islands Sailing Club, Tel: 946 3200, Cell: 9260099, Email: [email protected], Web: www.sailing.ky

Powerplay Racing owner and skipper, Cayman Islands-based Peter Cunningham (middle), between races at Rolex Big Boat Series in San Francisco (Photo credit Jane Moon)

Powerplay on the water during Rolex Big Boat Series in San Francisco (Photo credit Jane Moon)

Powerplay sailing downwind during Rolex Big Boat Series in San Francisco (Photo credit Jane Moon)

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