Archive for March 18th, 2016
Judge doesn’t ‘buy’ fraudsters stories
(CNS): Attempts by a gang of five foreign nationals to minimise their individual parts in a conspiracy to defraud local bank ATMs using cloned credit cards fell on deaf ears and a Grand Court judge found that all four men and one woman played an equal part in the criminal conspiracy. Justice Alastair Malcolm sentenced […]
Health insurance law changed to cover Lawrence
(CNS): The government is making a minor amendment to the health insurance law in order to provide medical cover for the former Legislative Assembly speaker, Mary Lawrence. Sitting in the chair for the duration of the previous UDP term and the subsequent temporary minority government, between 2009 and 2013, Lawrence was never a member of […]
DoE calls for help tracking key predators
(CNS): A local research project tracking important local marine predators that are endangered needs the help of the public who catch or see tagged fish. The Department of Environment (DoE) is working with Marine Conservation International (MCI) to track threatened species in local waters. The project will provide information for the local management efforts for threatened […]
Police begin using Fairbanks cellblock
(CNS): The new police custody suite is finally being used and is currently holding a number of prisoners, RCIPS management has confirmed. The groundbreaking for the new modern unit, which is a prefabricated building, was celebrated two and a half years ago in September 2013. It was scheduled to open in February last year and it […]
Archer ponders duty rate review
(CNS): With the introduction of the new custom codes, government is better placed to examine the duty on goods imported into the Cayman Islands, which offers an opportunity to look at the current rates, according to Finance and Economics Minister Marco Archer. Following news that Britain has introduced a sugar tax on sodas and other soft sweet […]
Teacher hits back in student rumble
(CNS): A video taken of the most recently reported violent incident in a government school shows that a teacher at Clifton Hunter High School hit back during an altercation with a student and appears to have punched him. The chief officer in the education ministry, Christen Suckoo, confirmed that the footage, which “appears to show […]
