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REUTERS/Lucas Jackson This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Special-purpose acquisition companies — aka "blank-check" companies — are having a moment on Wall Street. The investment vehicles raised more than $80 billion in 2020, more than five-times last year's total of $14 billion. SPACs have recently attracted bold-faced names such as hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Silicon Valley power player Dragoneer Investment Group, and "Moneyb...

CIFS Facilitates Regiment Training Police/Court Members of the Cayman Islands Regiment (CIR) received a full day of firefighting training from the Cayman Islands Fire Service (CIFS) on Saturday, 5 December. Over 50 CIR officers were trained on the use of fire extinguishers and breathing apparatus, search and rescue capabilities, hose running and motor vehicle accident extrication. “When working together as part of a major incident response it is essential to have a shared understanding of each other’s capabilities and competencies as well as operating practices. This ensures an effective...

Ridley Scott inspires Network Rail’s cave-exploring drone By Chris Baraniuk image captionA drone as seen in the movie Prometheus When Hollywood director Ridley Scott filmed astronauts looking for aliens in his 2012 movie Prometheus, little did he know that it would one day inspire a Network Rail drone project. But, bizarrely, that's exactly what has happened. Network Rail, which owns and maintains most of the railway infrastructure in Britain - from vast stretches of track to thousands of bridges, tunnels and level crossings - has long sought cheaper and easier ways of surveying the many un...