Archive for July, 2015
Webb secures bail with luxury goods
(CNS): Jeffrey Webb has secured his US$10 million bail bond with 11 luxury watches, his wife’s jewellery, including her wedding ring, three high-end cars and 10 properties, according to US press reports. The details have been revealed in an order filed in a Brooklyn court on Monday setting out Webb’s bail terms. The former FIFA […]
MLAs explore threatened reefs
(CNS): Some members of Cabinet, the Legislative Assembly, the PPM and the Port Authority Board took a closer look this weekend at the reefs, wrecks and other marine habitat that will be lost should the government press ahead with the controversial and destructive cruise berthing plans. Accompanied by the Department of Environment director, the politicians […]
First alumni graduate from hospitality school
(CNS Business): UCCI School of Hospitality Studies held their first annual awards ceremony Thursday night and recognised 19 young Caymanians who had successfully completed the program. The hospitality school was launched in September 2014 and the course has been designed so that students experience many different aspects of Cayman’s hospitality sector.
Temp UK minister takes on overseas territories
(CNS): The UK’s junior foreign office minister with responsibility for the overseas territories has been temporarily replaced after being admitted to hospital. James Duddridge’s portfolio has been taken over by Grant Shapps, who is currently a junior minister with responsibility for international development. Duddridge (43) has fallen ill again following a gall bladder operation last year.
Webb denies charges, bailed on $10M bond
(CNS): Former CIFA President Jeffrey Webb has denied allegations of corruption and bribery in the massive FIFA racketeering investigation and has been bailed but placed under house arrest on a $10 million bond according to news reports. Despite speculation that Webb was in talks with the US authorities regarding a plea deal, the fifty-year-old Caymanian from […]
Minister urges public to wade in on labour debate
(CNS): The two month long public consultation period on the draft bill for a new labour law will provide the ministry with an opportunity to refine the proposed legislation before it is presented to parliament, the minister said at the first public meeting Tuesday. Tara Rivers urged people to write in and submit comments and […]
Day long outage blamed on equipment failure
(CNS): Grand Cayman’s power supplier has blamed a day long power cut Friday on equipment failure. The problem started on a section of the transmission line between the power plant on North Sound Road and the South Sound substation around 4:30 in the morning, CUC said, though CNS readers reported lost power well before 4am. […]
Auditors offer reality check on ministry boast
(CNS): The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) has pointed out that for government audits to provide proper accountability for taxpayers’ cash, the government’s accounts not only need to be credible but produced on time. Following the health ministry’s recent boast that it had received its first ever unqualified audit on its financial report for the […]
US prosecutor confirms Webb’s arrival but no court date set
(CNS): A Brooklyn court heard Friday that Cayman’s former football boss, Jeffrey Webb (50), had arrived in the United States to face criminal charges in the massive FIFA corruption scandal. But In the first official confirmation that the extradited FIFA official is Webb, the US prosecutor overseeing the case, Evan Norris, said he did not […]
CIG retaining local newspaper ad ban
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin has stated that the government is continuing with the policy, as adopted in Finance Committee last month, not to spend public cash advertising with the islands’ oldest daily newspaper and that he was still looking for an apology from its publisher. Despite a letter that has been sent by David Legge’s lawyers to […]
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RC Loves Cayman writes: Your article states, “The problem started on a section of the transmission line between the power plant on North Sound Road and the South Sound substation around 4:30 in the morning, CUC said, though CNS readers reported lost power well before 4am.”
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