Archive for September 29th, 2016

Risk of hurricane hit from Matthew diminishes

Risk of hurricane hit from Matthew diminishes

| 29/09/2016 | 36 Comments

(CNS): The risk that Hurricane Matthew could hit any of the Cayman Islands diminished Thursday night as forecasters at the National Hurricane Center predicted a turn to the north well before the storm reaches our area. Matthew is now expected to past well to the east of Cayman, but despite the change in the forecast […]

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Defence lawyer calls victims ‘vicious little girls’

Defence lawyer calls victims ‘vicious little girls’

| 29/09/2016 | 0 Comments

(CNS): Local defence attorney Steve McField, who is representing a former John Gray High School teacher accused of indecent assault, said the students making the allegations were “vicious little girls” who thought their teacher was a “creepy paedophile” and had made up lies to destroy him. As the case against the teacher came to a close […]

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Throat slasher jailed for three years

Throat slasher jailed for three years

| 29/09/2016 | 17 Comments

(CNS): David Andrew Bodden (39) has been jailed for three years for cutting the throat of Blake Burrell with a scalpel in broad daylight on a busy cruise ship day in downtown George Town last summer. Bodden was handed a three-year sentence by Justice Charles Quin Thursday, several months after he was tried and found […]

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Judge cuts drug trafficker’s jail term on appeal

Judge cuts drug trafficker’s jail term on appeal

| 29/09/2016 | 4 Comments

(CNS): A Honduran national who was caught at Owen Roberts Airport some six years ago attempting to take two kilos of cocaine from Cayman to Cuba, stashed in women’s underwear, had his sentence reduced from 13 to just 10 years on Thursday following a successful appeal. Justice Micheal Mettyear found that the magistrate who sentenced Geovany Mayorquin […]

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Clem’s store hit by armed robber

Clem’s store hit by armed robber

| 29/09/2016 | 3 Comments

(CNS): A masked armed man stole cash and a customer’s handbag on Wednesday evening when he held up Clem’s grocery store on Mary Street in George Town at around 7pm. Police said that the robber had entered the mini-market through the front door with a handgun, demanding cash from the register before taking a black […]

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