Giles Shaxted

making your phone bills cheaper !

At the near beginning of this year i purchased a Philips VOIP841Dual Phone. I could not have been happier with this buy, especially now looking back .. it has done nothing but work out ! The phone itself is a dual phone as it plugs into my landline to give me a local phone number through my phone company as well as plugging via ethernet int my broadband router to give me a Skype phone.

For anyone who doesn’t believe in Skype .. silly you ! 2 cents a minute calls to anywhere in the USA and UK and Canada etc etc. Which as an expat and a traveler comes in very handy. It means I can call Familyin the UK for very cheap and friends in the USA very cheap. EVen to their mobiles .. check out their rates. I believe they are cheaper than almost all other VoIP service providers. The new feature that I am yet to use but seems amazing is All in rates or packages for calling a country or the world for unlimited amount of time per month. I think the price works out to be about $12 a month which I know is cheaper than my local VoIP provider. Cable and Wireless do a plan called Netspeak which has a basic package starting at $50 USD.

Now all that needs to happen is all my friends and family (actually most the family has or has tried to have a skype phone) need to get their hands on a skype phone and we can actually all talk for FREE .. thats the awesome part is Skype to Skype is completely free. The Quality is really very good now, Skype to Skype has a slight delay when you first call but after a few seconds is perfect, and calling other phones just works GREAT. The only trouble I see is that the phones are getting less sexy !

Quick ending note … having also seen a handset that doesn’t have a base unit and links into your home wireless connection .. I would suggest getting one like i pointed out that is Dual and plugs into your router at least as connection and charging is much much better with these non wifi ones !

Now I will start this by admitting I don’t know everything that is going on, and I am sure this does not apply to everyone involved. I am merely commenting on the outward appearance of the situation. Which I am guessing is the general gist of the overall situation.

It has now been almost 2 weeks since volunteers found Iguanas dead in the park. The Iguanas found were obviously not just attacked by a dog, for the most part the bodies were outwardly in good shape, we have all seen the photos. Dogs would and have in the past literally shredded Iguana Bodies to pieces. I am sure if you live in Cayman you have seen what a dog does to a coconut.

So where does this leave us, well let me pull out a few key paragraphs from the Police report over on Caymaniac.ky. Here they mention that 5 of the deaths are consistent with Dog bites. 7 Iguanas are dead. So that at least leaves us with 2 that are not. And from what I have heard all of them had massive internal injuries that showed some sort of brute force squashing action. A dog could not do that without major puncture wounds. Where as the sole of a shoe stomping definitely could. Also please remember that dogs don’t open gates !

Well is this a sign that the police are getting ready to give up? To me it would seem that way. In classic Cayman Islands style the police have started by giving themselves an out for when they find themselves with no results. Now they can just say they determined it to be dog attacks. Which everyone will know is a fallacy and everyone will know how crap the police are. Hell maybe something untoward or corrupt happened during the investigation. After all Cops are resigning and being arrested all over the place down here, with more being investigated. Can you say Corrupt !

As an example of how little effort they are putting in after designing an awesome poster down at CrimeStoppers you may ask yourself how come no one has come forward with information ? Well it could be possibly that the police did not print any of the posters off and hand them out or even have them available for pick up. The police emailed a few people the pdf and said if they liked they could print it out. PLEASE !

This then brings us to the National Trust, who lets face it normally has very little public interest in anything that really matters. However they seem to have an interest in this ! Is it possible because they are money grabbing idiots who have nothing better to do ? Or are they really looking out for the Blue Iggys ? Well lets see, there are reports of the rewadr being $11,000 which is probably a little under especially after DMS Brodcasting kicked it off with $5,000. That money was pledged to The Blue Iguanas as a reward. The National Trust seems to be running it’s own reward which currently according to them sits at $7,000. Which is wildly under what everyone else says. Why is this ? this is because the National Trust is only counting money that they have personally been given as a reward. Now ok the Blue Iguana Programme may be under the umbrella of the National Trust, but the National Trust obviously only has themselves at interest. It will be very interesting to see what happens to that money people gave to the National Trust for the Blue Iguanas in general, and the reward money if no one come forward to give information. We can already see the National Trust is Money Grabbing .. but are they gonna thieve it too ?

With all this being made quite obvious and public in the papers about how things are going, it is obvious that the Blue Iguanas need your public help directly. So bypass the National Trust and push a policeman in the right direction.

I am not going to make a huge long post here about this as I have it going on over at Caymaniac . But Suffice it to say that this is a big deal in our household Sam working so closely with them for so long. The Iguana “Digger” her father had sponsored was one of the largest and friendliest males, was viciously stomped to death along with the other 5.

As well as visiting Caymaniac for the news and updates of the Blue Iguana Murders you can also of course visit Blue Iguana.ky where you can donate, and get other updates.

http://www.caymannetnews.com/news-6850–1-1–.html

I had a phone call yesterday, luckily I never like talking to these people but like to keep them on the line as long as possible to waste their time. If you are in Cayman with a cell phone .. then watch out and don’t give any personal info over the phone to anyone no matter who they say they are.

My question is who let all our phone numbers loose at C&W and Digicel, cause last i knew our cell phone numbers weren’t published ! Me thinks it is an inside job !

November .. pirates week … thanks giving … are they STUPID ! We have just had 4 months of Dead summer when it could have been done with a lot less affect on tourists … but no .. they waited until now !

The arrival and pick–up area at Owen Roberts International Airport will be closed from today, Monday, until mid–December, to facilitate construction for part of the Airport Expansion Programme.

Cayman Compass Link Here

Morons.

Just trying to get my photo and post back to the top of the google search for rackams .. after i hid it the google spiders got confused and no longer saw my post as rackams material for their rackams results !

These are some of the photos I took today that I may possibly enter into the Cayfest competition along with some of my underwater Photos.
I will also take some more as there are a few categories I would like to enter: Landscape, Portrait, Animals, Underwater, Closeups and Lifestyles. I am not into the Digital manipulation so I will not enter that .. unless i change my mind !!
Anyway .. I will go through and enter some and hopefully I will win a prize, which is normally cash .. so yippee .. I think I will probably enter myself in the adult amateur category, its not like i make money from photography so thats legit. Although I don’t know who here that is professional would bother entering it .. I guess I will see !

Yes I am now the proud owner of my new house in Ocean Club in Spotts Grand Cayman. I am now very poor .. and have a very empty house … but hopefully everything will come together in the next month or so !

Anyone want to donate to my house decorating find please feel free to do so at ..

Female croc caught in Cayman
Photo: Tammie C. Chisholm

Animals especially marine animals never cease to amaze me. Everyone is guessing the Croc came from Cuba, Hispanola or Jamaica which are all places to have known living crocodiles. I however would like to think that this animal has been living right here in Cayman and that sightings of other crocodiles are true. There is just too much unexplored swamp land for us to say for sure that we have no crocodiles living in Cayman. Coolest thing though .. this gal was having a blast out in the open sea. Always nice to know we haven’t scared everything off from the deep blue yet. I still find it very amusing that the newspaper just mentions the fact that a local speared it with his spear gun. This is interesting as Spear Guns I thought used to be illegal, but after a quick google i find a Government article on the Laws of owning a Spear Gun in Cayman Which is shocking as there is no need for Spear Guns in Cayman apart from for sport, and to be honest we don’t have that many big fish left .. so leave them alone. But whats worse is .. It is probably an “American Crocodile” or if it is a “Cuban Crocodile” they ar eboth endangered and so Spearing them must be illegal … especially when unsanctioned. However this is Cayman and it was a Caymanian who did it. Therefor the local that did i will be commended on protecting innocent people here in Cayman that were in danger from the reptile who just so happened to be the furthest point away from the most inhabited area of the island. Good going. UPDATE: I just found out this evening, unofficially of course, that during the so called capture of this Endangered animal via a spear gun a few other things happened or should be known.

1. The Department of the Environment didn’t exactly have nothing to do with the capture of the animal, I believe the official words they used were, we were not involved. However They apparently backed away from the process when the Royal Cayman Islands Police took to the air in the Cayman Helicopter and started shooting at the Crocodile with a handgun !! (ok so now that is two people who have attacked an endangered species)
2. The Gentleman who used his Speargun to injure the crocodile (again an endangered species) apparently did not have the appropriate license to either own, possess or use a spear gun here in Cayman as per the rules I found before.
3. As of yet no charges have been put against the man, no plans have beenmade for the best welfare of this wild animal, who if not naturally resident here (in which case should be allowed to roam as she did) has swum a very long way to get here and just like a cuban has been arrested .. but rather than getting deported may get put in a cage and on display for the rest of her life.