Archive for May 12th, 2016
Fast-food workers robbed at gunpoint
(CNS): UPDATED: Two employees of the Burger King restaurant on Walkers Road in George Town were robbed at gunpoint in the car park after they finished work Wednesday. The stick-up was reported to the authorities around 11:45pm that night, police said. The robbers attempted to force the staff members, one male and one female, to let […]
Canadian football boss takes up CONCACAF job
(CNS): With the last three of the regional football association’s presidents having been charged with corruption offences in the massive global FIFA scandal, the president of the Canadian Soccer Association has been voted as the new head of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF). Victor Montagliani was voted in by […]
Teenager arrested for attempted murder
(CNS): A 17-year-old boy from West Bay has been arrested in connection with a stabbing last week outside a George Town bar. A 31-year old man was stabbed multiple times in the early morning hours of 5 May in the parking lot of Bananas Bar, at the Dolphin Centre on Eastern Avenue. The victim was […]
Premier calls for end to hypocrisy
(CNS): The Cayman Islands premier has called on the worlds’ nations attending the corruption summit in London to stop the hypocrisy regarding the fight against financial crime and make standards truly global. Alden McLaughlin did not name the United States but he made it clear that any new international standard had to apply to major […]
Forbes breaks record and rises in rankings
(CNS): Cayman’s 110-metre hurdler, Ronald Forbes, has broken his own national record and become one of the fastest hurdlers in the world this year. With less than three months to go before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the elite local athlete clocked a time of 13.36 at the NTC Star Sprint Series in […]
Ex-supermarket boss denies theft charges
(CNS): A 45-year-old American national has pleaded not guilty to two charges that relate to the theft of more than $35,000 from Kirk’s Supermarket, where he worked as a senior manager. Craig Gaskill denied two counts of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception Wednesday when he appeared in court. He is accused of misusing the store’s […]