Archive for March, 2017
Controversial bill finally gains cross-bench support
(CNS): Financial Services Minister Wayne Panton finally managed to steer the Legal Practitioners Bill through the Legislative Assembly with support from both sides of the House Friday. Following the closed-door meeting of MLAs on Thursday, all of the members supported the legislation on its second reading, with just the Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush and East […]
Woman details alleged sexual assault at Barkers
(CNS): A woman who said she was subjected to attempted rape and sexual assault while she was walking her dogs in West Bay denied that she was having an affair with her attacker and had made a false allegation because she feared being exposed. The woman told the court that, as she was walking her […]
Police seek WB men after nightclub stabbing
(CNS): The police are looking for two men from West Bay, aged 30 and 21, after a 41-year-old man, also from West Bay, was assaulted at the Jungle Bar & Lounge, West Bay Road, just before 11:00 on Friday night, in what was described by the police as an altercation. The victim received a stab […]
Warren jumps into GTW fight
(CNS Elections): Dennie Warren, a long-time political activist and more recently an outspoken advocate for medical cannabis, has made a decision to run for office. Warren, who was instrumental in persuading the government to take a leap of faith and legalise the use of cannabis oil as a medicine when prescribed by a doctor, is a […]
Stolen Honda found abandoned in West Bay
(CNS) UPDATED MONDAY: The police have now found a red Honda Civic which had was stolen from outside the Ritz Carlton Hotel last week. It was located off Dill Lane near the cricket pitch in West Bay on Friday. The police found the car after receiving information from a member of the public about an abandoned vehicle.
Mac defends party system
(CNS): As the Legislative Assembly resumed on Friday, Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush came to the defence of the party system in the face of growing criticism and allegations that political parties are behind all of Cayman’s ills. The Cayman Democratic Party leader issued a stark warning about the potential chaos caused when trying to form […]
Scammers pose as financial cops in latest email scam
(CNS): The RCIPS is warning the public that an email purporting to be from the RCIPS Financial Crime Unit circulating Friday morning is a scam. The police warned anyone who has received the email that this is not legitimate, and the link in the email should not be clicked on. They said that originating email, […]
Health City completes 300 tests in time for World Sleep Day
(CNS): As part of its research into sleep disorders and understanding the health benefits of sleep, doctors at Health City Cayman Islands have now completed 300 sleep analysis studies and they will be marking World Health Day today with several events. Dr Archita Joshi-Bhatt, Consultant in Pulmonology who heads the Sleep Medicine team at HCCI, […]
HIV false negative tests are ‘isolated cases’
(CNS): Senior management at the Health Services Authority has restated that three false negative HIV tests conducted by private labs were isolated cases and claimed that health standards remain high in Cayman at both the public and private facilities. “These are isolated cases and by no means undermine the quality of care offered in the […]
MLAs agree to talk to each other about LPB
(CNS): After weeks of arguing, acrimony and allegations between government and the opposition benches over the current Legal Practitioners Bill, all members of the Legislative Assembly have finally agreed to sit down and discuss the content and narrow down disagreement so that everyone can support it. Politicians spent most of Wednesday quarreling over who drafted […]
How would you grade your MLAs this past term? (Part 1)
101 writes: It’s that time again, where existing and wannabe politicians gear up to tell us what they have done for us, or to tell us why their opponents have messed up and how they, if elected, will fix things. But what we think is far more important than what they are telling us. Starting […]
