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Cayman Islands News, Articles and InformationMan using rum bottle prize for Cayman honeymoonARANSAS PASS, Texas - A message in a bottle discovered by an Ingleside man is turning into his honeymoon trip to the Cayman Islands.John Reed was fishing on a beach at Aransas (uh-RAN'-sas) Pass in 2003 when he found an old rum bottle that was sealed. Documents inside said the bottle was one of 12 tossed in the ocean in 1987 off Grand Cayman Island in a promotion for a rum maker, a resort and the Cayman Islands. Inside were free certificates for a plane ticket, a stay at a hotel resort and some rum. Reed -- who's a policeman -- gave the documents to his parents, as a present, but they eventually returned them to him as he plans to get married July 21st in Rockport. A Tortuga Rum spokeswoman says Reed will get two round trip airline tickets on Cayman Airways to Grand Cayman Island, a six-day stay at the Sunset House Resort -- and a case of rum.
Man gets honeymoon trip after finding rum bottleARANSAS PASS, Texas - A Texas man is getting a honeymoon trip out of a message he discovered in a bottle.John Reed was fishing on a Gulf Coast beach in 2003 when he found an old rum bottle that was sealed. Documents inside said the bottle was one of 12 tossed in the ocean in 1987 off Grand Cayman Island in a promotion for a rum maker, a resort and the Cayman Islands. Inside were free certificates for a plane ticket, a hotel stay and rum. . Man finds honeymoon in a rum bottleARANSAS PASS, Texas A Texas man is getting a honeymoon trip out of a message he discovered in a bottle. John Reed was fishing on a Gulf Coast beach in 2003 when he found an old rum bottle that was sealed. Documents inside said the bottle was one of 12 tossed in the ocean in 1987 off Grand Cayman Island in a promotion for a rum maker, a resort and the Cayman Islands. Inside were free certificates for a plane ticket, a hotel stay and rum. Reed gave them to his parents, as a present. But now they've given them back, to use for his honeymoon. He's getting married later this month. A Tortuga Rum spokeswoman says Reed will get two round-trip airline tickets to Grand Cayman Island, a six-day stay at a resort -- and a case of rum. Seven of the original 12 promotional bottles have yet to be redeemed.Wedding bloopersMaybe the groom fainted at the altar. Maybe the communion cup dumped down the bride's dress. Or maybe that hard-of-hearing relative kept singing long after the music ended.Some couples can't get hitched without a hitch (or two or three or four).Wedding-day disasters happen -- we've all either had them or at least feared we'd have them.At the time, no amount of tulle can hide the tears. But with time, connubial catastrophes can make even Bridezilla chuckle.The Rev. Dr. Matt Currin, rector emeritus of Christ Church, recalled a wedding blooper that happened when he was officiating."I gave the ring to a groom, and he could not get it on the bride's finger," Currin said. "He got more and more nervous and finally said, 'With this finger I thee wed.' "Jackie Slaughter, an associate pastor at Myrtle Grove United Methodist Church, remembers when a former colleague of hers, a pastor at a church in England, passed out during the first wedding ceremony he officiated."He was so nervous.Carnival Cruises to visit Cayman year-roundBeginning in November, Carnival Cruise Lines will increase its cruise ship calls to the Cayman Islands with the year-round visits of Carnival Liberty, its Florida office announced recently.Carnival Cruise Lines said its Carnival Liberty ship would be deployed from Port Everglades on six and eight-day Caribbean cruises beginning in November 2006. According to the company, It is the only programme of its kind from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Carnival President and CEO, Bob Dickinson, said the extension was brought on by huge successes. The Carnival Libertys six and eight-day cruises from Fort Lauderdale have been a huge success and consumers will now have even more opportunities to sail on this spectacular ship and enjoy these unique cruise itineraries, he said. The Net News 'Weekender' makes Cayman a countryAcross most of the Western world the concept of a weekend newspaper is nothing novel. However, never before in the Cayman Islands have readers had the opportunity to enjoy a newspaper specially designed for the weekend.Until now that is. Cayman Net News, made history - again, last weekend for this country with the launch of The Weekender, the first ever Saturday/ Sunday paper for the country. Making history is something that we appear to be doing relatively frequently, in particular since Hurricane Ivan, when we were able to keep the Cayman Islands and the world in contact and keep the people of this country up to date through our Internet news site and in print. After we returned to a five day publishing schedule in 2005, we soon brought the people of the Sister Islands their very own newspaper and later that year in December we brought the Cayman Islands its first broadsheet.
East Enders return to 'new' homesHome again: East End resident, Blondell Connor and her 92-year-old mother, Lillie Connor receive a house-warming visit from the National Recovery Fund and I AM CO representatives recently, as they prepared to move into the re-built house. Sharing the moment are (l-r) Ludlow Buckridge, supervisor for East End projects for NRF; Jerry Wood, Jernat Construction; Father Graham Thompson, head of I AM CO's charity operations; NRF's Dr. Mark Laskin, Executive Director; Cynthia Arie, Director of Marketing and Development and Aileen Samuel, Special Projects Officer.Nearly two years after Hurricane Ivan devastated her East End home and forced her to seek shelter elsewhere, Blondell Conor returned home to a brand new house last week. The reconstruction of Ms. Connor's new residence, built on the site of her former home, was made possible through funds donated by the I AM CO charity of philanthropist Susan Olde. Onyx rejects takeover by CDCMinutes after the board of Onyx Software said it had rejected a takeover bid by Hong Kong-based CDC Corp. on Monday, CDC retaliated by saying it had filed a lawsuit against Onyx in Seattle.The moves follow a hostile-takeover attempt that CDC began Wednesday, appealing directly to shareholders to sell stock to CDC for $5 a share, topping the current proposal from M2M Holdings to acquire Bellevue-based Onyx for $4.80 a share. Onyx's seven-member board unanimously voted to recommend that shareholders reject CDC's offer. Uncertainties in the offer, including the availability of cash and the timeline for completing a transaction, are not offset by its higher price, Onyx said Monday. In June, the board signed an agreement to be acquired by M2M Holdings, a company jointly owned by private-equity firms Battery Ventures and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, in an all-cash transaction valued at $4.80 per share or approximately $92 million.
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