Archive for March 14th, 2016
Mac accuses auditors of ‘rotten’ agenda
(CNS): Following the recent meetings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush has once again hit out at the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) and accused them of telling a “bellyful of lies” because of their own “rotten” agenda. Bush has denied that politicians were the architects of the original Dart […]
Dart in junkyard dispute
(CNS): The emergence of an unsightly car junkyard on Crew Road in George Town has caused some concern on social media and the Cayman Islands’ largest developer and landowner, Dart Realty (Cayman) has confirmed that the company owns the land and is now in a legal dispute with the tenant. The planning department has also […]
BT water pipe upgrade halted
(CNS): Phase 2 of the Water Authority – Cayman’s Bodden Town Pipeline Project has been temporarily halted due to a delay in the import of materials needed to upgrade one of its plants, officials have confirmed. The project to replace the water main along Bodden Town Road between Gun Square Road and Manse Road began in January […]
Ozzie signs off on medical welfare cases
(CNS): Public Accounts Committee members were shocked to learn Friday that the law requires the community affairs minister to sign off on all cases of people who need medical care but do not have health insurance or are under-insured. Osbourne Bodden is currently the minister holding the cheque book over who does and does not […]
NAU dealing with 2,500 families
(CNS): The director of the Needs Assessment Unit (NAU) revealed that her department deals with 2,500 families in the Cayman Islands annually and the unit is chronically underfunded. Tamara Hurlston said appointments for assessments are backed up for months and she is not expecting any additional funding in the forthcoming budget unless the minister responsible for […]
Fire crews battle with major brush fire in GT
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Fire Service was kept busy yesterday as they battled to get a brush fire under control in the capital. A major fire on an empty lot off Anthony Drive behind Passadora Place, near to the Cayman Islands Hospital, got out of control Sunday lunchtime and firefighters were called to the blaze, […]
‘God’ told mother to kill her child
(CNS): Local psychiatrist Dr Marc Lockhart, giving evidence in the murder trial of Tamara Butler, said that the defendant believed the voices in her head telling her to kill her six-year-old daughter because she was a demon came from God. Giving the court an account of his assessment of Butler last week, Dr Lockhart said he had diagnosed her with […]
