Archive for October, 2016
Independent member objects to status grants
(CNS): The member for East End, Arden McLean, voted on Monday against two Cabinet status grants after an acrimonious exchange with the premier, who brought the motion to give Caymanian status to developer Fraser Whellan and Monique Hamaty-Simmonds, general manager of well-known local firm Tortuga Rum Cakes. McLean said he objected in principle to anyone […]
$5m taken from EPF to buy Smith Cove
(CNS): With a deal between the government and the owners of the land by Smith Cove agreed and the process to acquire the land for public use underway, both sides of the Legislative Assembly supported a government motion Monday to take $5 million from the Environmental Protection Fund. Premier Alden McLaughlin told the parliament that […]
Cruise dock: economic and environmental questions
‘I don’t want to be a politician’ writes: The truth about the port is that no one can truly assess the environmental damage impact that dredging will have on 7 Mile Beach. A review of sea current action and wind patterns over the past 20+ years indicate a strong probability that silt sediment (and there […]
Election spending limited to $40k for all
(CNS): Amendments to the Elections Law passed in the Legislative Assembly Monday saw the government benches accept a suggested change from the independent member for East End on campaign financing. The new law paves the way for every candidate to be allowed to spend $40,000 each, regardless of whether or not they are members of […]
Industry analysts find Flow fastest local provider
(CNS Business): Independent telecoms analyst Ookla, which operates speedtest.net, an online portal that measures internet speeds, has found that Flow has the fastest broadband and mobile services in the Cayman Islands, based on raw data records for the past six months. Regardless of ongoing complaints that internet service in the Cayman Islands from all of […]
LA rolls on as legislators struggle to complete agenda
(CNS): Legislators threw in the towel Friday night after a mammoth day’s work dealing with a significant amount of amendments to the bills brought to the parliament during this meeting but before key legislation was completed. The premier had hoped to end this current Legislative Assembly meeting Friday, even though the agenda was jam-packed, including […]
Elections matter, premier tells voters
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin has said that elections matter because whoever forms the government influences the fortunes of the country for “better or worse”. Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce Legislative Lunch last week, the premier made the case for politicians to have a common plan to make government work. With less than six months to […]
Another sex crime case sent to court
(CNS): The RCIPS has revealed that a 29-year-old unidentified man from West Bay appeared in court Friday charged with a list of serious sex crimes that took place earlier this month. Police said the man had been charged in relation to offences on two different women two weeks apart. The RCIPS sent out a press […]
Athletics association in leadership turmoil
(CNS): A successful legal challenge has put the Cayman Islands Athletics Association leadership into turmoil after the elections were stayed by the courts by an injunction that was granted until administrative and financial records have been handed to the executive. Local attorney and member of the association, Harold Delroy Murray, filed the legal action to […]
Cayman’s cancer statistics still inadequate
(CNS): The voluntary registration rate for the Cayman Islands Cancer Registry is beginning to increase. But officials have said that the statistics, compiled with information supplied by a dozen medical professionals, that reflect local trends for the illness that impacts so many people are still inadequate. A release from the Health Services Authority this week […]
Woman killed in North Side crash
(CNS): Police have opened an investigation into a single vehicle crash in which a 43-year-old woman from George Town was killed in the early hours of Friday morning. Heather Moffitt-Gibson, a local real estate broker, was driving a burgundy Land Rover, which came off the Rum Point Road, near to house #193, and into the bushes. There […]
