Archive for July 6th, 2016
Crash lawyer bailed as judge considers sentence
(CNS): The defence attorney for a corporate lawyer convicted of reckless driving and causing grievous bodily harm urged a judge not to send him to jail Wednesday. Simon Courtney (50), who ploughed into two tourists after a champagne brunch at the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman in January 2015, was bailed until Thursday morning, when the judge […]
Missing teenage girl found
(CNS) Update: The police have confirmed that 14-year-old Roseanna Antoinette Redden from Bodden Town has been found safe and well. The RCIPS had issued a release asking for the public’s help to find her after a week had passed since she had been seen by family members, though she had spoken to her mother by phone on […]
Doctor charged with assaulting 12 women
(CNS): Following his arrest last month, Dr Jemal (Jamie) Khan (47) from George Town has now been charged with more than 18 offences relating to assaults on a dozen women who came to him as patients. Khan, a chiropractor at a medical centre in Passadora Place, is charged with ten counts of indecent assault on […]
Secularism in the Cayman Islands
Blue Iguana writes: Before offering my two cents on the matter, allow me to preface this viewpoint by making it clear that it is not my intent to alienate or assault those who hold religious beliefs in our community. The rationale presented in this piece is not being employed to promote an atheistic agenda. Rather, […]
Prison deputy gets her job back
(CNS): Government officials have refused to comment on the legal outcome of a court challenge by a prison deputy director, Aduke Natalie Joseph-Caesar, who was sacked by the chief officer in the home affairs ministry, Eric Bush, over an internal staff scandal at HMP Northward last year. Last month, a court found in Caesar’s favour that she […]
