Archive for August, 2017
Police receive more beach theft reports
(CNS): The police received two reports yesterday of bags being stolen while the owners were swimming along Seven Mile Beach. Both happened in the Public Beach area, one in the morning and one in the evening. The first report involved a beach bag that had been stolen after it was left on the sand while the […]
Bar brawl lands man and woman in hospital
(CNS): Two women and two men were involved in a George Town bar room brawl that turned violent in the early hours of Thursday morning and landed one of the men and one of the women in hospital with serious injuries. Police said they were called to Bananas Bar on Eastern Avenue at around 3:00 this morning […]
Foots’ art faces more vandalism
(CNS): Controversial artwork on Cayman Brac by resident artist Ronald “Foots” Kynes, which is displayed on property he owns on South Side Road, was vandalized yesterday for the second time this month. Police said that this time sculptures were severely damaged and appear to have been struck with a blunt instrument. “For people in the community to […]
Premier: Opposition not fit to lead
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin lauded the work his coalition did to arrive at a common policy for his new Government of National Unity, as he delivered its Strategic Policy Statement in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. But there was very little unity with his political colleagues on the opposition benches during the debate on the SPS, […]
WB man charged over gun and threats to woman
(CNS): A 32-year-old man from West Bay was due in court Thursday morning, having been charged Wednesday with possessing an imitation gun and threatening offences, following an incident on Sunday in the district. The RCIPS said that the man is accused of slapping a woman he knew while make threats and showing her what appeared […]
Unity gov’t sticking with cruise port plans
(CNS): The premier has revealed that the coalition he is now leading is backing the previous administration’s cruise berthing and cargo port plans. Even though the CDP and some of the independents campaigned against this specific project, the minority members of the ‘Unity’ government have not been able to derail the controversial proposal. Delivering his […]
Welfare one of winners in SPS
(CNS): The elderly, indigent, disabled, veterans, seamen and retired civil servants will all be seeing a significant boost to their payments from government over the next three years after the premier announced a more than 36% increase in benefits and grants to all Caymanians who are struggling to provide for themselves. Those receiving welfare will […]
CIG targets $1/4 billion surplus over term
(CNS): Government is expecting to generate operating surpluses during this current administration that will exceed a quarter of a billion dollars. The new finance minister, Roy McTaggart, who moved from the backbenches to fill the shoes of his former colleague, Marco Archer, told the Legislative Assembly and the listening public that the national unity government will […]
Bus crash compounds morning traffic jam
(CNS): A public bus crashed into a wall in Lower Valley at around 7:44am, Wednesday, turning the back-to-school traffic commute into a nightmare for drivers coming into town from the Eastern Districts. Facebook was lit up with seething drivers stuck in long lines of traffic after the single-vehicle accident in which the police said the […]
Canadian secures job as supra-ombudsman
(CNS): Sandy Hermiston, the General Counsel for the Ombudsman and Public Interest Commissioner in Alberta, Canada, will be the Cayman Islands’ first-ever supra-ombudsman created under the Ombudsman Law, 2017. The Canadian lawyer beat out four other people who were shortlisted for the job, one of which, officials have confirmed, was a Caymanian.
‘Unity’ government to set out policies in LA
(CNS): Almost three months after the coalition unity government was cobbled together in the wake of the indecisive election result the people of Cayman will get an idea today of the new ‘unity’ government’s policy platform when the premier and the finance minister present the Strategic Policy Statement in the Legislative Assembly. The statement will […]
