Archive for May, 2016
Boozed-up boater triggers search operation
(CNS): The RCIPS is urging people to be more careful on the water after the drunken antics of a 25-year-old man on a boat trip triggered a full scale rescue operation yesterday evening. Described as “highly intoxicated”, the man had jumped into the water several times from a boat traveling in the vicinity of Rum […]
Police ask public to help in missing person case
(CNS): The RCIPS has launched a missing person enquiry for a 40-year-old man from West Bay who has not been seen since Saturday night. Hector Cruz, originally from Cuba, told family members on 14 May that he was planning to go fishing early Sunday morning, 15 May. Cruz was reported missing Monday evening, 16 May, but […]
Teenage boy in court for stabbing incident
(CNS): A 17-year-old boy from West Bay who was arrested in connection with a stabbing outside a George Town bar earlier this month has been charged with wounding with intent and appeared in court Tuesday morning. At the time, police reported that a 31-year old man was stabbed multiple times in the early morning hours […]
One robbery suspect arrested for BK stick-up
(CNS): Police arrested a 21-year-old man from George Town on Friday on suspicion of robbery in connection with the incident outside the Burger King on Walker’s Road last week, where two men, both of whom had what appeared to be handguns, held up the male and female employee in the parking lot. The robbers attempted […]
Connolly presses CIG to act on energy policy
(CNS): Government has accepted a motion presented by the opposition MLA for George Town, Winston Connolly, to consider legislating a new energy policy to meet global standards on sustainable development and climate change, but it doesn’t appear likely to happen anytime soon. Despite a passionate debate by the former government backbencher about the desperate need […]
Golden Spoons Review: The Lighthouse
(CNS Foodie): For Mother’s Day, we tried out the brunch at The Lighthouse in Breakers. While food and service clearly are among the top considerations when deciding on a place to eat, there is no denying the fantastic location of this restaurant, which is right on the water with a spectacular view. Ironically though, we […]
Activists in US raise alarm over GM mosquitoes
(CNS): Just as bio-scientists are releasing tens of thousands of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Grand Cayman as part of a project to try and eliminate them, a group comprising public health, food safety and environmental activists in Florida is raising the alarm about the modified insects created by Oxitec. The Center for Food […]
Latest credit card cloners own up to crime
(CNS): Two visiting foreign nationals who were rounded up by police earlier this year have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the local banking system with cloned credit cards. Adam Makdad (21) and Hakim Benomara (25), who appeared in court Friday, have been remanded in custody and are due to be sentenced on 9 June.
MLAs’ ex-PA denies robbery charges
(CNS): A woman who worked as a personal assistant to George Town MLAs Roy McTaggart and Winston Connolly when they were both still under the C4C political grouping has denied three counts of robbery and one of possessing an imitation firearm. When she appeared in Grand Court Friday, Christine Rae Smith (36) pleaded not guilty […]
Global temperature records blown away again
(CNS): The latest temperature figures released by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies have revealed yet another world record in high temperatures for the Earth. The global temperature for April was 1.11 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average. This crushed the previous April record set in 2010 by 0.24 degrees Celsius and marks the seventh month […]
GT man arrested after Saturday night stabbing
(CNS): One man is currently in jail and another in hospital following a fight outside Welly’s Cool Spot, off Sound Way in George Town, on Saturday night, 14 May. Following a report that night at around 11:46pm to 911, a man was taken to hospital after receiving a serious stab wound to his stomach. He […]
