Archive for March 11th, 2016
Search moves to recovery operation
(CNS): After searching almost 2,000 square miles of ocean with no sign of survivors, officials confirmed Friday evening that the RCIPS coordinated search and rescue operation had been declared a recovery. The search for 9-year-old Kanyi and 11-year-old Kamron Brown, their uncle Gary Mullings, Edsell Haylock and Nicholas Watler began on Monday morning, 7 March, after the […]
Fast-food staff foil robbery at Burger King
(CNS): Workers at the Burger King restaurant on the waterfront in George Town foiled an armed robber on Thursday night by locking themselves in an office. Police said that they received a report about the attempted hold-up at around 9:20pm on 10 March as the robbery was in progress at the fast food joint in North […]
Customs clerk sues CIG over workplace injuries
(CNS): A customs tally clerk who three years ago suffered two injuries in one day while handling a heavy parcel is suing the Cayman Islands Government. Katherine Phillips filed a suit last month, claiming that she suffered a back injury trying to manoeuvre a heavy parcel from a high shelf and then, while carrying the same […]
Mac files motion to remove doctors’ immunity
(CNS): The opposition leader has filed a private member’s motion to amend the Health Services Authority Law, saying that legislators never intended to protect doctors from negligence claims when the law was passed in 2004. McKeeva Bush said section 12 of the law was meant to cover the authority’s board of directors, not medical staff, […]
New JGHS head comes from TV fame UK school
(CNS): A twenty year veteran of the British education system and an expert in behaviour management, school improvement and distributed leadership, has been appointed as principal at the John Gray High School. Jonathan Clark’s previous job was vice principal at Passmores Academy, which was featured in a British TV ‘fly on the wall’ documentary, “Educating Essex”, though […]
Regional football body on hunt for top execs
(CNS): The beleaguered regional football body CONCACAF has sought outside help to find two new executives after most of its previous management team was arrested in the massive international scandal gripping the sport. The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football officials said they had hired two leading executive search firms to oversee the […]
