Archive for October 4th, 2016
Ex-UK civil servant takes over local computer services
(CNS): The Home Affairs Ministry has hired a new director of the Computer Services Department. Simon Spiers, who recently took up the job, has worked in the UK civil service and private sector, officials said Tuesday, when they revealed the new appointment. According to a release from government, he is a former chief information officer […]
US military to use Cayman as disaster relief staging post
(CNS): The US forces sent a team of around 100 military personnel and nine helicopters to Cayman Tuesday, in readiness to support disaster relief operations in the region if needed in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. In a release from the US Department of Defence, officials said a special-purpose marine air-ground task force left Honduras’ […]
UK to fund review of marine unit
(CNS): The British government will be funding a review of the search and rescue capabilities, resources and equipment as well as coastguard protections in all of its territories in the Caribbean, and it will be starting with Cayman. The minister for the overseas territories, Baroness Anelay, announced that the money for the extensive review will […]
Police urge reluctant witnesses to come forward
(CNS): The police are appealing for people who were in the area of Seven Mile Shops in the early hours of Saturday morning and may have information about the murder of Justin Manderson to come forward. Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of the West Bay man believe that there are reluctant witnesses who may be […]
Cayman has obligation to LGBT equality, says OT minister
(CNS): The UK’s overseas territories minister, Baroness Anelay, told the Legislative Assembly Tuesday that the continued discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community placed the Cayman Islands Government in breach of its legal obligations. Addressing MLAs at the opening of parliament this morning, she said that the UK had no plans to impose […]
NGOs query GM mosquito success risk
(CNS) UPDATED 5 Oct, with Oxitec comment: Admissions by Oxitec, the UK company partnering with the Mosquito Research and Control Unit here in Cayman, that the space created by the successful eradication of the Aedes aegypti through the use of its genetically modified insects could pave the way for a second disease-carrying species has some […]
Former fugitive guilty of robbery 6 years after crime
(CNS): Dan Kelly (24) was found guilty Monday of robbery and possession of an imitation firearm in connection with a stick-up at a West Bay bakery in 2010. Following a judge alone trial before Justice Charles Quin in August, the local man, who went on the run while on bail for the offence, was convicted […]
Right to Know Week – It’s Yours, Just Ask!
Jan Liebaers, Acting Information Commissioner, writes: The Information Commissioner’s Office has just finished another annual celebration of Right to Know Week, with events from 26 September to 3 October 2016. Every year 28 September is observed around the world as International Right to Know Day to raise awareness of the right to access government records […]
