Archive for June, 2017
Substance abuse at heart of crime challenge
(CNS): Acting Police Commissioner Anthony Ennis has warned that until the country gets to grips with the mounting substance abuse problems in the community, crime will continue to increase. The police are reacting to the latest crime spike with an increase in visible patrols as well as focusing on the reported crimes; they have also […]
Officials return five Cuban migrants to Havana
(CNS) The Cayman Islands Department of Immigration repatriated five Cuban migrants earlier this week. The three women and two men follow 89 Cubans who have been deported back to Havana since the beginning of this year after landing in Cayman as a result of failed or abandoned attempts to migrate to the United States.
Board to re-start PR applications next week
(CNS): Waide DaCosta, the chair of the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board (CSPR), has confirmed that next week he and his members will begin reviewing the backlog of PR applications, which stalled after a change in the law in 2013. Following almost three and a half years of various problems that prevented all but […]
Heckling motorcyclist arrested over Crewe Rd crash
(CNS): Police have arrested a 32-year-old man from George Town on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident in connection with a traffic collision on 9 May. The local man was arrested Wednesday, some five weeks after he allegedly heckled a public political meeting at the PPM HQ on Crewe Road and then sped […]
MRCU plans to expand GM mozzie project
(CNS): Following the near year-long trial in West Bay, where genetically modified mosquitoes were released to reduce the population of Aedes aegypti, the MRCU is planning to expand the programme. The project has proved controversial but interim results show a decline of 79% in the pest. Now the modified mosquitoes could be released across the […]
Crown experts reject Webster’s claims of impairment
(CNS): Two medical experts called to examine claims by Errington Webster that his consumption of grapefruit juice, a bottle of Guinness and a herbal remedy, plus an extra dose of hypertension and cholesterol medication caused some kind of delirium said this was very unlikely. While Dr Marc Lockhart, a local leading psychiatrist who gave evidence […]
Stolen boat found capsized off Frank Sound
(CNS): A 25-ft Cobia boat stolen at the end of last month turned up today around 1½ miles off the coast of Frank Sound with no one in sight. The RCIPS Joint Marine Unit was alerted to the capsized vessel around 11:00am Wednesday morning, 14 June, by a member of the public. The officers on […]
Cops nab store robbery suspect who fled in owner’s car
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have confirmed that the suspect arrested yesterday following a stick-up at a grocery store in Bodden Town has also been arrested on suspicion of the robbery at Mr Arthur’s store in George Town on Tuesday morning. The 25-year-old was rounded up on Wednesday after he tried to flee in the store owner’s […]
Injured victim dies one year after road smash
(CNS): A former employee of the NRA, Thomas Rupert Hubbell (44), who was seriously injured in a road smash in June last year, succumbed to the injuries on Monday evening, 12 June, police have said. Hubbell was a passenger in a white Toyota Tercel that collided with a wooden utility pole on 30 June 2016 […]
Police track down another stolen car
(CNS): The police have recovered a white 1996 Honda Accord that was stolen early Wednesday morning (14 June) near Walker’s Road in the George Town area, the RCIPS said. In what is becoming an almost daily event, the car was last seen at around midnight and the thieves took the vehicle around 2am this morning […]
BOTs get new minister in May’s reshuffle
(CNS): Another Conservative peer has taken over the Foreign Office job overseeing the British Overseas Territories after Baroness Anelay was moved in Prime Minister Theresa May’s post election Cabinet reshuffle. The Baroness has gone to the so-called Brexit department created to oversee the UK’s departure talks with the European Union and Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon […]
