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Blues in the Local Press

Top model adopts Blue Iguana

May 13th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

Top model adopts Blue Iguana

Cayman Net News Online

Published on Tuesday, May 13, 2008  

Luigi Moxam (r) presents Fred Burton with a cheque for the ‘adopted’ blue Iguana.
Cayman-born model Selita Ebanks, along with Luigi Moxam, fashion designer and owner of the One 345 clothing company, both visited the [...]



Iguanas in ‘cautiously optimistic’ condition

May 13th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

Iguanas in ‘cautiously optimistic’ condition

Cayman Net News Online

Published on Tuesday, May 13, 2008  

Director Fred Burton watching Dr Colin Wakelin attempting to resuscitate “Jessica” who became one of the seven Blue Iguanas killed at Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park on Saturday, 3 May.
Two Blue Iguanas who survived [...]



Singing the Blues

May 9th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

Singing the Blues

Elianna Anglin, John Bodden, Chambria Dalhouse, Ruth Harris, Kozhaya Kozaily and David Smith

all Year 3 students at George Town Primary 

We’ve got the blues
This is not the way to a bright future:
Destroying our Island’s nature!
We’re singing the blues
‘Cause we heard the [...]



Blue Pledges Grow

May 8th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

Blues pledges grow

By Carol Winker, carol@cfp.ky

Thursday 8th May, 2008 Posted: 08:22 CIT (13:22 GMT) 
Pledges for a reward fund have grown to over $11,000 for information about the killing of blue iguanas at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park last weekend. [...]



Reward out for iguana killers

May 8th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

Reward out for iguana killers

Cayman Net News Online

Published on Thursday, May 8, 2008  

Stuart Bostock, Cayman Crime Stoppers Chairman

Following the brutal slaughter of six Grand Cayman blue iguanas at Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park in Grand Cayman last Saturday, Cayman Crime Stoppers is partnering with the National [...]



Reward Offered

May 8th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

DMS offers reward for blue iguana crime

Cayman Net News Online

Published on Thursday, May 8, 2008  

Don SeymourDMS Organization President

A leading broadcasting organisation has joined forces with Queen II Elizabeth Botanic Park and law enforcement agencies to find those responsible for the death of six endangered blue [...]



Six Blue Iguanas brutally killed

May 7th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

Six Blue Iguanas brutally killed

Cayman Net News Online

Published on Wednesday, May 7, 2008  

Sometime between late Saturday evening (3 May) and the next morning someone broke into the iguana habitat at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, slaughtering six endangered blue iguanas and injuring two others.
Samantha Hicks, [...]



Another Iguana Found Injured

May 6th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

Another iguana found injured

By Carol Winker, carol@cfp.ky

Tuesday 6th May, 2008 Posted: 16:17 CIT (21:17 GMT) 
Another blue iguana has been found injured following the weekend attack that killed six of Cayman’s endangered animals at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park.

Gathering evidence: [...]



Death of Blues is appalling

May 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

By Carol Winker, carol@cfp.ky
Monday 5th May, 2008 Posted: 17:47 CIT (22:47 GMT)
It is our sincere hope that whoever went to the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park to maim and kill Blue Iguanas is caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
We were all appalled in the summer of [...]



Blues killed at park

May 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Blues in the Local Press

By Carol Winker, carol@cfp.ky
Monday 5th May, 2008 Posted: 17:32 CIT (22:32 GMT)
Six blue iguanas are confirmed dead, one is missing and three others are injured after an attack at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park Saturday night.

The nine animals represent one–third of the adult breeding iguanas cared for at the [...]