Archive for March 15th, 2016
Man killed at Beach Bay building site
(CNS) Updated 6:23pm Tuesday: Police have named the 63-year-old man who died today as a result of an industrial accident on a building site in Lower Valley. He was Cecil Hedges of George Town. According to the RCIPS, at about 12.15pm Tuesday, 15 March, emergency services personnel, fire and police officers and representatives of Workplace and […]
Driver gets 10 months jail for fatal crash
(CNS): Fitzroy Roach was sent to prison Tuesday for ten months in connection with a collision in October 2012 on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway in which taxi driver Beverly Ramsey was killed. Roach was not speeding, using his phone or under the influence of alcohol when the Nissan box truck he was driving veered into the […]
Have a question or a problem? Auntie is here to help
(CNS): Cayman News Service has launched a new column, ‘Ask Auntie’, on CNS Local Life, one of our three news websites. Launched last week, the column aims to fill a gap here in the Cayman Islands and will be a blend of problem page, information booth and citizens’ advice bureau. If you need to find something out […]
Younger lifers could get shortest tariffs
(CNS): As the courts begin preparations to hear applications for all of the 16 inmates serving life sentences in HMP Northward, the youngest prisoners may be the ones to get the shortest tariffs. The new conditional release law provides for a number of mitigating circumstances, including age, that could see the recommended thirty-year life sentence […]
CINICO boss confirms AIS no longer processing claims
(CNS): The CEO of the government-owned insurance company, CINICO, confirmed that it is no longer using AIS Cayman Ltd or its Jamaican parent company, AIS, to verify and clear payments for its clients at the Cayman Islands Hospital. Lonny Tibbetts told CNS that, following a request for proposals in 2013, the payment systems are now […]
