Sometimes the weekend days are as hectic as the rest. And it was on one such Saturday that I found myself, at the four way stop in West Bay, finally having finished all of my errands and made hungry by all that running about like a chicken.
Travis Walters from the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) scooped two awards for the month of October 2015.
Temar Clarke, a payments and payroll officer with the Treasury Department, has been named the Cayman Islands Government Employee of the Month for September 2015.
Around 700 unemployed people will benefit from a government initiative to give them short-term work during the Christmas season.
Christmas will soon be here and also the urge to spend. Your pay cheque will be arriving in a few weeks. You have worked hard all year and you may or may not get a bonus.
The unemployment rate in the Cayman Islands has risen to 5.6 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Economics and Statistics Office. That is up from 4.7 per cent this time last year.
While their efforts were apparently dampened by rain, their desire to have their message heard would not be extinguished by the persistent showers Wednesday morning.
A small but spirited group of protesters marched from the Government Administration Building on Elgin Avenue to the Legislative Assembly Wednesday morning, showing their disgust with the price paid at the pumps for fuel.
Armed with close to 10,000 signatures, the grouping “Cayman Is Fed Up With High Gas Prices” is ready to march, declared committee organiser George Ebanks on the eve of major protest action planned for George Town.
The National Workforce Development Agency (NWDA) partnered with Wine School 3 to offer several scholarships to those registered with the NWDA to complete their Wine Service Class 101 and 102 courses, which are offered by the wine school.