Archive for October, 2016
Telecom firms breach licences over fibre-optics
(CNS): The minister with responsibility for utilities has admitted that “many” telecommunication firms operating in the Cayman Islands have licences that require them to build out fibre-optic networks across all the islands but none of them have met their agreed target dates. Planning Minister Kurt Tibbetts said that because of the problems the telecom firms […]
Cabinet makes developer and rum-cake owner Caymanians
(CNS): The premier has announced Monique Hamaty-Simmonds, owner of Tortuga Rum Cake Company, and property developer Fraser Wellon have been awarded Caymanian status by the Cabinet. Announcing the grants as the Legislative Assembly met on Wednesday to begin ploughing through the raft of business on the agenda, Premier Alden McLaughlin said that a motion would […]
Community rallies to save Smith Cove
(CNS): Caymanians and residents have been rallying on social media this week following the revelations on Cayman News Service on Monday that a significant part of Smith Cove is to be developed. The news that one of the last beautiful beach spots on Grand Cayman, loved by locals and visitors alike, could be lost to […]
Over one third of waste comes from yards
(CNS): Officials working on the next steps in implementing a comprehensive waste management system for the Cayman Islands have revealed that yard waste accounts for well over a third of the rubbish going into the George Town dump. The figures demonstrate the pressing need for the premier’s ministry to get a composting project off the […]
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 […]
