Archive for April 1st, 2015
Pile of new evidence stalls Watson case
(CNS): Police claim to have received around a trillion bytes of digital information in the corruption and money laundering case against Canover Watson, the former HSA chair, and his former personal assistant, Miriam Rodrigues. In a successful application Wednesday to postpone the trial scheduled for next month until November, the new deputy director of public […]
CNB robbers get up to 14 years jail each
(CNS): The four men recently convicted for Cayman’s biggest bank robbery faced their fate in court on Wednesday and received sentences that ranged between eight and fourteen years for their part in the daylight heist. David Tamasa, George Mignot, Rennie Cole and Andre Burton were all found guilty last week for the second time by […]
Retrial in WB child killing delayed
(CNS): The courts have agreed to a more than ten month delay in the retrial of Devon Anglin (29) for the murder of four-year-old Jeremiah Barnes at a West Bay gas station in February 2010. The case has already been plagued with delays after Anglin was acquitted during the first trial and the crown appealed […]
$120M surplus budget set for May
(CNS): Government is hoping to deliver its 2015/16 budget on Friday 8 May if the Annual Financial Plan meets with the UK’s approval. However, with $540 million budgeted for core government spending and an anticipated surplus of over $120 million, the premier was confident that he would get the nod from the foreign and Commonwealth […]
Regulator approves growth in CORE power
(CNS Business): The Electricity Regulatory Authority has approved an extension in the capacity of the consumer-owned renewable energy generation programme, known as CORE by 1MW and extended the contracts to 25 years. The ERA and Caribbean Utilities Company said the growth of the programme, which allows CUC customers to feed renewable energy from private solar panels […]
CNS Viewpoint: Theft is theft
Nicky Watson writes: For many years successive governments of the Cayman Islands have been enabling people to fence stolen goods by giving them trade and business licences to do so. The property sold by such businesses may not be seen as stolen by the business owners or their customers but in the eyes of the […]
