Archive for December, 2015
Retired cop recalls emotional aftermath of child’s murder
(CNS): Retired detective chief inspector Peter Kennett, testifying in court Friday, recalled the emotional scenes when he arrived at the hospital on the night 4-year-old Jeremiah Barnes was shot dead. Kennett returned to Cayman to give evidence in the murder trial of Devon Anglin, who is accused of being the masked gunman that opened fire on […]
New fire chief to be announced
(CNS): The chief officer in the ministry of home affairs, Eric Bush, has called a meeting of fire service staff today to announce the appointment of a new fire chief. The ministry has not yet revealed any details of the new fire-fighting boss but CNS understands that for the first time since the 1950s the […]
Webb embezzled cash meant for poorest kids
(CNS): As the international FIFA corruption scandal rolls on, the latest indictment by the United States Department of Justice outlines how Jeffrey Webb, the suspended Cayman Islands Football Association president, took cash meant for disaster relief and grassroots football programmes in some of the world’s poorest countries. Sports Minister Osbourne Bodden has again called for […]
Miss Cayman Islands in bikini debut at Miss Universe
(CNS): Cayman’s Tonie Chisholm is already going through her pageant paces in Las Vegas as the Miss Universe beauty contest gets underway ahead of the televised final, which is scheduled for 20 December, the night after the rival Miss World pageant. There will be 81 women competing for the Miss Universe crown, currently held by […]
Visitor dies after diving off North West Point
(CNS): A 65-year-old man from Tennessee died Sunday morning following a dive off the coast off the North West Point area at Orange Canyon, in West Bay. Police said emergency services were called to the West Bay dock just before 10:30am on 6 December, where medics administered emergency treatment to the American visitor. Gary Paul […]
Cyclist robbed for $35 of groceries
(CNS): A 55-year-old local man was robbed at knifepoint of two bags of groceries worth just $35 on Saturday evening as he cycled along Birch Tree Hill Road. The cyclist was accosted at around 10:20pm by two men, one of whom was said to be armed with a nine-inch long butcher’s knife. Police said the […]
Lawyer denies GBH and dangerous driving
(CNS): A Cayman-based corporate lawyer pleaded not guilty Friday to two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and one of dangerous driving when he appeared in the Grand Court. Simon Courtney (49) is accused of mowing down two tourists in January when he mounted the pavement near to Villas of the Galleon and the Ritz-Carlton […]
Road smashes continue in spite of seasonal crackdown
(CNS): Two drivers were taken to hospital on Friday morning after a major collision close to the roundabout by the Lion’s Centre in the latest road crash in a year that is turning out to be one of the most dangerous on record in Cayman. Neither of the men were seriously injured but the collision […]
Fights erupt outside 7MB nightclub, teen injured
(CNS): One woman was injured and taken to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning (5 December) after multiple fights broke out in the parking lot of the Nectar Bar and nightclub in Seven Mile Shops, along the West Bay Road. The location is becoming an increasingly troublesome spot after a number of weekend […]
Dump gets over $575k of new kit
(CNS): Government has spent more than half a million dollars on new equipment for the Department of Environmental Health to use at the George Town landfill as it tries to get to grips with the growing dump against the long process of introducing a national waste solution. DEH Director Roydell Carter said the two new […]
Police seek witnesses to West Bay road crash
(CNS): The police are asking anyone who saw what happened in Tuesday night’s collision on Watercourse Road to contact the West Bay station. Officers are investigating what caused the crash in which a Mercedes-Benz and a motorbike collided close to Super C’s restaurant. The 20-year-old pillion passenger on the bike who was in a critical […]
