Archive for August, 2015
First hurricane of season degenerates before reaching Caribbean
(CNS): Hurricane Danny, which had reached a category three hurricane at one point over the Atlantic, degenerated into a low pressure trough on Monday morning some 45 miles off the coast of Guadeloupe. The National Hurricane Center said the remnants of the hurricane, the first one of the 2015 season, were expected to bring up […]
Woman arrested at courthouse over ganja find
(CNS): A West Bay woman who turned up at the George Town courthouse with substance suspected to be ganja was arrested on Wednesday, police have said. The drugs were found on the 53-year-old woman during the security check at around 10:45am on 19 August by police as she entered the court building and she was […]
East End man charged in machete assualt
(CNS): Jamal Rankine (22) from East End was due to appear in court on Monday after he was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of an offensive weapon in connection with a fight on a George Town beach in the early hours of Friday morning. Rankine is accused of chopping another man […]
Law school defends lecture series on LGBT rights
(CNS): The president of the Truman Bodden Law School student body has defended the lecture series it organised earlier this year about the legal rights of the LGBT community in the Cayman Islands in view of decisions made in the European Court of Human Rights. Following criticisms of that series by the backbench government MLA, […]
Cayman could be stop on royal Caribbean tour
(CNS): The UK media is reporting that Prince William, Duchess Catherine (Kate Middleton) and their two children, Prince George (2) and Princess Charlotte (three months) are preparing for their first royal tour as a family of four and the Cayman Islands may be on the agenda. According to The Daily Mail, the young royals are […]
Woman denies near $1m theft from security firm
(CNS): Patti Jane Ebanks (49), the former financial controller at the Security Centre Ltd, has pleaded not guilty to 23 charges relating to the theft of US$937,592.62 from the company. The local woman is accused of stealing the money between April 2010 and June 2013. During that time she is alleged to have written fourteen […]
Driver thrown from car in late night crash
(CNS): A 51-year-old man is in the critical care unit at the hospital with broken bones and other injuries after a crash on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway late Friday night. Police who arrived at the scene at around 11:05pm found the man unconscious and lying in the road with injuries to his forehead. Debris was spread […]
West Bay rape suspect claims innocence
(CNS): Andre Chase (22) from West Bay has denied the rape of a woman and an aggravated burglary in connection with a violent home invasion last month. Arraigned via video-link between HMP Northward and the courthouse Friday morning, Chase was emphatic as he pleaded not guilty to bursting into the woman’s home in the Town […]
Suckoo defends motion, apologises for offence
(CNS): Backbench MLA Alva Suckoo has apologised for offending anyone with the comments he made in the Legislative Assembly last week during the controversial debate on the preservation of marriage but has taken aim at the chair of the Human Rights Commission, James Austin-Smith, and the letter he sent to the premier Thursday. Suckoo claims […]
Cops arrest attempted murder suspect
(CNS): A 22-year-old man from East End has been arrested by police on suspicion of attempted murder following a fight on the beach in the early hours of Friday morning. Police were called to a disturbance on the beach in front of Snooze Lane, George Town, at about 2:25am in which a 25-year-old man received […]
Featured comment: Faith and marriage
A CNS reader writes: I’ve about had it with the utter nonsense of hiding bigotry behind the phrase “love the sinner, hate the sin”. It’s a catch-all phrase intended to spare the speaker from criticism of denigrating their fellow human beings. The phrase itself, and sentiment behind it, isn’t necessarily problematic — for example, it will […]
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