Archive for July 4th, 2016

Alden: Independence would be ’asinine’

Alden: Independence would be ’asinine’

| 04/07/2016 | 65 Comments

(CNS): The premier said the Cayman Islands is much too small in population terms to consider independence and the people would have to be “lunatics” to make such a decision. As the country took a day off Monday to mark its first constitution signed in 1959, the premier said the current 2009 document was a […]

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Constitutional reform considered as Cayman takes a holiday

Constitutional reform considered as Cayman takes a holiday

| 04/07/2016 | 0 Comments

(CNS): As people enjoyed a day off Monday to mark the first constitution in the Cayman Islands’ history in 1959, Premier Alden McLaughlin pointed to the importance of the one that came 50 years later. He said that the 2009 constitution steered through by the previous PPM government had established a new and modern framework […]

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Cayman remains Zika free as suspect cases negative

Cayman remains Zika free as suspect cases negative

| 04/07/2016 | 3 Comments

(CNS): The test results of threes suspected Zika virus cases sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) were negative, the Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez has confirmed, while a fourth was inconclusive because the test fell outside the timeline testing criteria. The test results were also all negative for dengue and […]

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