Archive for March, 2015
Conflicts focus of immigration training
(CNS): Staff working on the front line of the Department of Immigration were looking at ways to address conflict with customers this week. As government attempts to improve customer service across the civil service and with major developments at the department, the training was designed to show counter staff how to better handle the difficulties that […]
School facing gang trouble
(CNS): Education officials have confirmed that John Gray High School has been dealing with gang rivalries in the school for some time and the fight on the school campus on Monday morning was as a result of those ongoing problems. The assault on the teacher by a teenage girl on Tuesday afternoon was described as […]
Crown: Witness ‘flawed but courageous’
(CNS): The director of public prosecutions described the crown’s key witness in the Cayman National Bank robbery as “flawed but courageous” as she delivered her closing speech in the case to the jury Wednesday. As the trial of David Tamasa, Rennie Cole, George Mignott and Andre Burton, who are all charged with robbery and firearms […]
Woman killed in car smash
(CNS) Updated 8:55am Thursday: The 26-year-old woman who died in a car crash on Shamrock Road Wednesday has been named. Rowena Scott, the mother of four children, was pronounced dead at the hospital after her black KIA Sorrento SUV smashed into a concrete wall in the Spotts Dock area yesterday afternoon. Scott is understood to […]
More violence at JGHS
(CNS): A 15-year-old girl has been arrested and charged by police on suspicion of assault, actual bodily harm (ABH), disorderly conduct and damage to property after a teacher was assaulted at John Gray High School Tuesday afternoon. The latest act of violence comes in the wake of a brawl at the school on Monday morning between […]
Crown to pick up legal tab over false charges
(CNS): A local man who was wrongly charged with robbery at a jewellery store in January 2013 has managed to recoup some of his legal costs from the crown as a judge found the director of public prosecutions was slow to drop charges against him despite having evidence proving his innocence. Although charged with taking […]
Officials tight lipped over JGHS gang fight
(CNS): The new acting chief education officer and former principal of John Gray High School has confirmed that the fight at the school Monday, for which two teenage boys were arrested, was a continuation of another brawl that had happened in Camana Bay at the weekend. But Lyneth Monteith has said little else about what was understood […]
HRC: Too much data wanted in cancer law
(CNS): The Human Rights Commission has questioned the need for the amount of information that the proposed cancer registry law will require and is calling on government to justify the encroachment it plans to make on privacy rights in the new bill. The chair of the HRC has submitted an open letter to the health […]
Works underway on key link road
(CNS) The National Roads Authority (NRA) is carrying out road works on Canal Point Drive that runs along the Strand Shopping Centre, off the West Bay Road. The road, which also links the West Bay Road to the Easterly Tibbetts bypass, has been in a poor state of repair for some time, but now the […]
Immigration to open late Wednesdays
(CNS): After years of pleading from its customers, the immigration department is finally introducing late night opening, albeit on just one evening per week. Government officials have confirmed that, starting tomorrow, Wednesday 11 March, the office will be open for business until 7pm. If the extended service proves to be popular it is possible that […]
Fire crew rescues trapped driver in early morning crash
(CNS): The driver of a Chevrolet Colorado is currently in hospital recovering from a number of non-life threatening injuries after he lost control of a pickup truck on Shamrock Road near the junction of Will T Drive, Lower Valley, Bodden Town. The smash happened at around 3:40am this morning (Tuesday 10 March) when the truck, which […]
