Archive for February, 2016
Man kicked during knifepoint mugging
(CNS): A man was threatened and kicked during a street robbery on the West Bay Road early Tuesday morning in which the villains made off with his wallet. Police said the mugging happened at around 1:20 this morning as the man was walking along the West Bay Road towards Raleigh Quay after leaving Calico Jack’s […]
CUC blames generation problems for another outage
(CNS): Customers in parts of West Bay, George Town and Bodden Town were without power for over an hour in some cases Tuesday morning as a result of what Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) described as “a temporary loss of generation”. Power was restored to all customers by around 10:35am, the monopoly power provider on Grand […]
New PAC chair to lead probe on controversial reports
(CNS): Ezzard Miller will be back in action as the chair of the Public Accounts Committee tomorrow morning, when members meet to question witnesses and examine the findings of several controversial reports from the Office of the Auditor General (OAG). PAC will review eight reports over three days, including reports on the Nation Building Fund, the management […]
Watson appeals, lawyers silent on grounds
(CNS): The former chair of the HSA board, Canover Watson, has appealed against his convictions earlier this month of five corruption related charges in connection with a government hospital contract. His local defence attorney, Ben Tonner, told CNS that an appeal had been filed on behalf of his client but no grounds have been specified. Watson […]
IT manager connected to CarePay contract still on job
(CNS): The IT manager at the Cayman Islands Hospital, John Thompson, who sent an email to Jeffrey Webb implying he would “blow the lid” on the shady aspects of the corrupt CarePay contract after he suggested he had only received a small payment for his part, is still working at the hospital, Lizette Yearwood, the […]
Custody officer fired in prison probe
(CNS): The prison custody officer who was embroiled in the prison covert video scandal has been dismissed, Eric Bush, the chief officer in the home affairs ministry, has confirmed. Nina White, who was suspected of inappropriate conduct with inmates, has become the latest casualty of the controversial investigation, which began almost one year ago and […]
DoE calls for photos of Cayman’s ocean predators
(CNS): As part of an ongoing research project monitoring the shark, grouper and snapper populations around the Cayman Islands, the Department of Environment is calling on divers, snorkellers and fishermen to upload any pictures they snap of these ocean predators to Facebook and Twitter, using the hashtag #SpotThatCayFish, to help scientists in their work. The citizen […]
$100k raised for sharks from local beer
(CNS Business): The five cents collected from every bottle of the Cayman Islands Brewery’s White Tip larger has raised more than $100,000 for shark conservation programmes over the last two years and there are high hopes for even more following a new partnership with local artist and marine conservationist, Guy Harvey. White Tip launched a […]
OT minister will back exit campaign in EU poll
(CNS): James Dudderidge, the FCO junior minister who looks after the affairs of the British overseas territories, is one of 100 MPs who will be campaigning over the next few months for the UK to leave the European Union, as Britain prepares for the in-out referendum on its membership. Prime Minister David Cameron announced this weekend that […]
Visitors arrested over prison smuggling
(CNS): Two people have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling contraband into HMP Northward this weekend after they were found with a phone and drugs on a routine visit to inmates. Prison officials did not say whether or not the two visitors were visiting the prison together, nor did they specify the gender of the accused smugglers. […]
Near drowned diver airlifted by RCIPS chopper
(CNS): The RCIPS helicopter was involved in another medevac operation this weekend when the crew airlifted a female diver from Little Cayman who came close to drowning Saturday morning. Officials said that just before noon on 20 February, medical staff at Faith Hospital over on Cayman Brac requested the emergency evacuation to Grand Cayman for a […]
