Archive for December, 2016
CIG keeps tax cut for builders despite growth
(CNS): The government’s continued dependence on development for shoring up the economy was re-emphasized on Friday when the finance ministry announced that government would once again extend the flat 15% import duty rate on building materials shipped to Grand Cayman for another year. The concession will last until 31 December 2017, even though the construction […]
Violent husband jailed for 14 years
(CNS): An estranged husband who tried to kill his wife in a brutal, terrifying machete attack was handed a fourteen-year jail term last week after pleading guilty to attempted murder. George Vaughan lured his wife to the home they once shared when she believed he wouldn’t be there. But the man lay in wait, and […]
ICT firms forced to be honest
(CNS): Telecom companies are being held to account for claims in their advertising based on new guidelines from the Information & Communications Technology Authority (ICTA). The Truth in Advertising Guidelines (TAG) will help consumers understand what they should expect and accept in adverts from telecoms providers, officials said. The competing phone and internet service providers will […]
Suspect remanded in custody in teen rape
(CNS): A 32-year-old Jamaican man has been charged with the rape and indecent assault of a teenage girl at a home where he was staying as a guest. Police said that the man was remanded in custody to HMP Northward following a court appearance on Thursday and will next appear in Grand Court on 13 […]
Tibbetts to serve 3½ months for fatal hit-and-run
(CNS): The immigration officer convicted of killing Donnie Ray Connor in a hit-and-run on the Linford Pierson Highway in April last year will serve just three and a half months in jail after the judge gave him more than four months credit for the time he served on bail under curfew on an electronic monitor. […]
‘Guns are for cowards’ judge tells convicted man
(CNS): Justice Dame Linda Dobbs told Jonathan Welcome that guns are for cowards, as she handed down a six-year jail term Thursday. The 23-year-old Bodden Town man was convicted of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to resist arrest by a jury Wednesday and was sentenced today. With what she described as an “unenviable” […]
Police net five drunk drivers in clampdown
(CNS): During the first week of the annual seasonal crackdown on drunk drivers and other offenders, spoiling the holidays for themselves and others, the police have revealed that five people were arrested for driving under the influence, two for driving while disqualified, and twenty-six traffic tickets were given for expired coupons, expired insurance and illegally […]
Jamaican crime ‘visitors’ jailed for four years
(CNS): Two Jamaican men who came to the Cayman Islands illegally and then committed an armed robbery at a variety store and cash transfer agent in Bodden Town received four years in jail Thursday. Romario Codner (22) and Paul Martin (26) arrived in Cayman illegally on a boat in August and claim they were put up […]
Thieves make off with another Yamaha motorbike
(CNS): Police are searching for another stolen motorbike, the second in less than a week. Just after 9:00pm on Tuesday, 13 December, a red Yamaha TBR motorcycle (similar to the one pictured left) was parked just outside the Casa 43 Mexican restaurant located in Canal Point, George Town, police said. A few minutes later it […]
Inspector back on job after sports car smash
(CNS): A vehicle examiner working at the Department of Vehicle and Drivers’ Licensing (DVDL) who smashed a customer’s sports car into a light pole during an inspection in July has been cleared of any wrongdoing and is back on the job. Although Arek Ebanks was given a traffic citation by police for careless driving shortly […]
Mac makes veiled attack on Hewitts
(CNS): Falling short of denying or admitting his part in the election petition against Tara Rivers, Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush took aim at Gordon Hewitt, his wife Velma Hewitt, who is a former member of the UDP, and their lawyers on his Facebook page Thursday without ever mentioning anyone’s name. He did, however, single out […]
