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Controversial turf finished on new CIFA pitch
(CNS): The acting president of the beleaguered local football association, CIFA, said Monday that the turfing project on the new pitch at the HQ in Prospect is finished. Bruce Blake said the goals and corner flags are scheduled to be set up Monday and Tuesday and a grand opening will take place later this month. […]
Youth Act urges community to help make difference
(CNS): The organisers and volunteers at Youth Act are beginning what they hope will be the first step towards addressing the socio-economic deprivation impacting many Caymanians with the launch of a community project in Rockhole this weekend. Bonnie Anglin, who has been lobbying government to invest in crime prevention, said that nothing has changed in […]
Farmers fail to inspire hero nominations
(CNS): Government officials could be faced with an embarrassing problem in the New Year with few farmers to honour National Heroes Day in January. A government release on Tuesday revealed that so far very few names have been submitted for the agricultural heroes awards, as the nomination period passes the halfway mark. With only two weeks to […]
CIG must take homelessness seriously
(CNS): A local business man and former George Town candidate in the 2013 general election is calling on government to take homelessness seriously because he believes the numbers are growing and the situation will soon become a major problem for the wider community. Matthew Leslie is now a leading figure when it comes to community action […]
Cop and MLA plan punch-up in the ring
(CNS): A local politician and a police officer will be squaring up for charity next month with a three-round bout during a boxing event being hosted by the Cayman Islands Boxing Association. The show will feature a team from the Bahamas vs the Cayman Islands and as well as local boxers such as Hopkins Ebanks […]
CIFA boss leaves day job at Maples
(CNS): Bruce Blake, the acting president of the Cayman Islands Football Association, has reportedly left his lucrative position as a lawyer with an offshore firm to focus on his job at the helm of the beleaguered local football organisation. The decision comes following several months of controversy, beginning in May with the arrest of the […]
General secretary resigns from CIFA
(CNS): Paul Macey has resigned from the Cayman Islands Football Association just days after he and most of the other members of its executive committee were re-instated during the annual general meeting on Saturday. The news comes against the backdrop of a possible local corruption probe into the local football body after its annual audit […]
Challengers call foul on CIFA
(CNS): The two challengers who have been barred from running in this weekend’s CIFA annual elections have said they are astonished by the revelations on CNS this week that the decision to reject their nomination was made by the committee made up of the very members who are all now running unopposed in the annual […]
YMCA ousts Outreach Association for afterschool contract
(CNS): The education ministry’s Extended After School Programme will be delivered this coming academic year by the Cayman branch of the YMCA after the organisation was the winning bidder following a competitive tendering process for delivery of the programme. The programme, which costs government over half a million dollars a year, serves around 1,500 students […]
Ozzie pulls CIFA public cash
(CNS): The sports minister has pulled government’s contribution to the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) after the row over the refusal by the football body to accept two challengers to the long-entrenched members of the executive committee escalated this week. Osbourne Bodden said that government will, under the current circumstances, redirect the annual payment give […]
CIFA digs in over rejection of challengers
(CNS): The local football body is standing by its decision to reject the nominations of two possible challengers to the entrenched executive committee at the annual general meeting and elections this weekend. Despite significant concerns about CIFA against the backdrop of the current FIFA scandals and investigations around the world, including the catalogue of charges […]
