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In a recent homily at my local church, I could have sworn that the celebrant said something along the lines of “dangers lurked in the form of the Pharisees, the scribes and the expats”. I may well have misheard but found it amusing nonetheless.

If the cruise port referendum is held this year, eligible voters who have not already registered with the Elections Office will not be able to cast a ballot in the historic vote.

Cayman’s one-man track team is preparing for his biggest race of the year.

The finals are set to determine the men’s and women’s Cayman Islands Flag Football Association 2019 champions after an intense day of action at Ed Bush Sports Complex on Saturday, 14� Sept., with both title holders getting yet another shot to continue their winning streak.

The Cayman Islands Yacht Club in Governors Creek will play host to an interesting race on Sunday morning, when an estimated 100 competitors line up to contest the 2019 McGrath Tonner Duathlon.

Customs and Border Control officers searched Doctors Express Tuesday, days after the medical facility was forced to pull cannabis vaping products from its shelves, according to a government spokesperson.

Artwork created by rising artist and Caymanian student Brandon Saunders is now among idents being used by UK-based television network ITV.

A Cayman Islands renewable energy company has been working in the Bahamas to provide emergency power to field hospitals in remote areas.

Engineers have applied to begin drilling boreholes in the seabed in George Town harbour for a study to help determine the subsurface conditions in advance of the planned cruise port development.

Campaigners are calling for the people-initiated referendum on the cruise port to take place in January at the earliest.

People watching the water on a bright sunny day late last month would have seen a sight that hearkened back to Cayman’s olden times – a quartet of the islands’ iconic blue and white catboats cutting through the waves as they sailed from West Bay to North Side in an annual race.

Five University of College of the Cayman Island students have received scholarships from Abbott Aerospace SEZC Ltd.

Hundreds of civil servants will be making their way to work on foot, by bus or on bicycles Friday, as Cayman holds its first ‘Car Free Day’.

The apprentice training facility being built on the Public Works Department compound and set to open early next year, was visited earlier this month by Minister for Planning Joey Hew, who was updated on the progress of construction which began this summer.

Two journalists from the Cayman Islands are among the 16 chosen from the Caribbean and beyond to participate in the ‘Islands Voices’ programme organised and funded by the United Nations.

The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority has recruited a full-time medical haematologist-oncologist to help enhance its blood diseases and cancer care services.

A lane at the centre of a dispute between former government minister Mike Adam and his neighbour Wilson Mendoza is being turned into a public road.

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We do not need a dock! It will destroy our ocean floor and, I believe, will cause diverse effects. Some time ago, I read about what it would do to our beautiful Seven Mile Beach. It, if I remember correctly, was written by an elderly Caymanian seaman.

If the Port Referendum Bill is speedily drafted by Cabinet, perhaps the proposed huge mega-cruise ship dock and cargo facilities in Hog Sty Bay will be brought to a vote soon. Is such expensive berthing for mega-cruise ships in the heart of George Town in the national interest of the Cayman Islands?