Archive for June, 2016
Anguilla police boss replaces Baines in BVI probe
(CNS): The former Cayman Islands commissioner of police, who had been heading up a 19-month police corruption enquiry in the British Virgin Islands, has been replaced by the police commissioner from Anguilla, Paul Morrison. In a statement to the local media, the BVI police said Morrison would take over from David Baines following his retirement as […]
Cops stirred up over longer booze hours
(CNS): The acting commissioner of police, Anthony Ennis, has raised concerns over the news that bars and nightclubs will all be allowed to open longer following a decision by the liquor licensing board to offer a blanket extension to compliant licencees. After a challenging weekend for the police in which they dealt with three firearms related […]
Jury acquits local man in shotgun case
(CNS): A jury deliberated for just two hours Tuesday before acquitting a 46-year-old man from West Bay of possessing an unlicensed shotgun, despite what the crown had said was overwhelming evidence. Tonie Elford Bush, who defended himself, was arrested last November following a police raid at his home in Daisy Lane, where he lived with […]
Booze hours extended for bars and nightclubs
(CNS): Owners of bars and nightclubs will be able to open for an hour longer week nights following a decision by the Liquor Licensing Board to allow licence holders a blanket extension. From 1 July, retail bar licence holders can remain open until 2:00am, Mondays to Fridays, and until 12:00am on Saturdays and Sundays. This […]
LGBT rights are human rights
A CNS reader writes: The foreigner who makes the noise is acting like a voice for the LGBT Caymanian community who are intimidated by the bigotry shown here and have no (or little) voice themselves. There is a thriving LGBT community on Cayman which consists of both expats and plenty of Caymanians, who just get […]
McLean calls for end to status grants
(CNS): The member for East End has called on government to end Caymanian status grants for foreigners living and working here with the exception of spouses and those entitled to status due to their heritage. During his contribution to the budget debate Monday, Arden McLean said too many people had already been given Caymanian status […]
Romanian fugitive loses extradition fight
(CNS): A Romanian national convicted of corruption in his homeland in 2011 has lost an appeal in the Grand Court against extradition. Mihai Tanjala (58), who was the founder of the former secret police in the country, has been on the run from the Romanian authorities for several years and was arrested in Grand Cayman […]
Tropical storm hits coast of Florida
(CNS): As Cayman began to dry out from the deluge over the weekend, when more than two inches of rain fell across the islands, the tropical wave that caused it had moved up towards Florida by Monday afternoon and become a tropical storm. Tropical Storm Colin, the first storm to fall in the season time […]
Time running out for reefs, says CCMI boss
(CNS): Dr Carrie Manfrino, the research director at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute on Little Cayman, has called for action to reverse the critical decline of tropical coral reefs and wants the world to try harder to save them. The institution is hosting a symposium in London this week, which will bring a cross-section of […]
Guns, drugs found as video raises concerns about cops
(CNS): In a series of incidents on Friday night-Saturday morning, the police arrested three men and recovered a loaded firearm with five rounds of ammunition, a modified loaded flare gun, spent shells and an undisclosed quantity of ganja. One of the incidents, in which a man was shot with a Taser gun by police, is […]
MLAs call for gay rights referendum
(CNS): Once again, some of Cayman’s longest serving politicians have attacked the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. During the budget debate in the Legislative Assembly last week, both Anthony Eden and Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush took aim at plans for a conference on issues impacting the group and criticised Cayman Islands Governor Helen Kilpatrick for […]
