Archive for June, 2015
Dump equipment hire costs CIG $1M
(CNS): Leasing private sector trucks for garbage collection and equipment for the dump set government back over a million dollars in this financial year — and none of it was tendered — as a result of the fires and a high number of technical problems with the equipment. The premier, who took over waste management […]
Insurance firms drive-up health costs
(CNS): MLAs reluctantly voted for massive amounts of public money to cover the healthcare costs of those that are not properly covered by the private sector of government’s own insurance firm Monday. Alongside the millions of dollars that government pays for overseas healthcare for the poor and elderly, local healthcare costs and bad debt at […]
Primary learning gets smarter with IT
(CNS): The education minister has revealed that every government primary school will have smart boards in the classrooms by the start of the 2015-16 academic year. Interactive White Boards have been steadily added to government classrooms but 100% of primary classes and 60% of all public high schools rooms will have them and the relevant […]
English language standards in question
(CNS): An MLA has questioned the level of enforcement over English language standards among work permit holders after the Ritz Carlton recently undertook a recruitment campaign for a language tutor to improve the English spoken by hotel staff. Plans to mandate that permit holders sit a language test at international centres before coming here have […]
Experts improve predictions as quiet season opens
(CNS): With just 12 named storms expected this Atlantic hurricane season and improvements in prediction paths by experts, residents are less likely to find themselves taken by surprise over bad weather but that doesn’t mean the Cayman Islands won’t see another Hurricane Ivan and residents are being warned to remain prepared.
