Archive for March 2nd, 2016
Hand, foot and mouth cases in Cayman schools
(CNS): Following the outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease at two local primary schools last year, public health officials are closely monitoring the schools as further cases have been identified. Children at West End Primary on Cayman Brac and Savannah Primary on Grand Cayman have come down with the viral illness and teams continue […]
Date set for speed limit changes
(CNS): In just five days government will introduce a slew of speed limit changes across Grand Cayman. Following a review that began almost three years ago and over a year of missed dates for a change in the speed limit on the West Bay Road, the new speeds finally come into effect Monday. The speed limit […]
Dart seeks to dig up 7MB rock
(CNS): Dart Realty (Cayman) has plans to submit a coastal works application to “conduct site investigations and remove samples of beachrock” just below the high-water mark on Seven Mile Beach, the developer confirmed in a statement Wednesday. The island’s biggest landowner is proposing to take rock from a trial site north of Tiki Beach, where […]
Over 100 Cubans still detained
(CNS): Immigration officials deported 32 Cuban migrants on Tuesday but over 100 still remain at the Immigration Detention Centre or in civic centres in East End, Bodden Town or prison facilities, and two are in jail after being on the run for three months. Costs are running high as government faces another surge in the arrivals of […]
‘Runaway’ SAGCs must be controlled
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government is failing to control statutory authorities and government companies (SAGCs), which should be controlled through ownership agreements, but the budget documents that set out the annual deal between core government and the semi-autonomous entities are not being properly used to hold them to account, according to the Office of the Auditor General […]
Scientists predict rising costs with rising seas
(CNS): In the face of worrying predictions over sea-levels rises and more flooding, researchers are warning that little progress has been made on estimating how much the damage such events cause will cost in the future. Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have been working on quantifying losses and experts have […]
New home helps separate troubled kids from kids in trouble
(CNS): A new wing to accommodate boys at the Frances Bodden Children’s Home shows some progress by the community affairs ministry towards separating children and youths who are in trouble with the law from troubled young people who need a safe place to stay. Government still faces numerous problems regarding appropriate housing of young people […]
