Archive for February, 2018
Coach stirs up outrage over threats to CIAA
(CNS): Ato Stephens, the former Trinidadian track star who was convicted of ‘sexting’ with one of the underage athletes he was training while working as a coach in the Cayman Islands, is threatening the local athletic association with legal action after they withdrew his membership. While the convicted coach’s threats have caused public outrage in […]
Premier gets CI$86k 2nd-hand Range Rover
(CNS): The government has recently spent around CI$218,000 on four cars for the premier, the speaker and visiting dignitaries. Premier Alden McLaughlin is now being driven around in a CI$86,000 second-hand Range Rover Autobiography, which officials from the Protocol Office said was purchased overseas at a discount and has less than 5,000 miles on the […]
Judges take different views on gangster killers
(CNS): Devon Anglin (32) and Brian Borden (30) both learned Friday the minimum time they will serve on their life sentences for murder. The two West Bay men were both members of the Birch Tree Hill gang but were involved in execution-style killings of rival gang members in two separate incidents. Anglin was given a […]
Cops ‘stoned’ during drug bust
(CNS): Police were pelted with stones in West Bay yesterday and one officer was struck twice in the head and face during a drug operation carried out at a home in the Boatswain Bay area. Police, customs and agriculture officers raided a property where ganja was being cultivated. Several ganja plants were recovered but no arrests […]
Drivers step on the gas along Linford Pierson Highway
(CNS): Police say drivers are going too fast along the new parts of the Linford Pierson Highway, claiming they don’t know the speed limit because there are no road signs due to road construction being carried out on the highway. However, the RCIPS noted that there are, in fact, signs at both ends of the […]
Freemasons claim discrimination
(CNS): Freemasons in the UK are claiming that their members are “undeservedly stigmatised” and are calling for an end to the discrimination they suffer. The BBC and other media outlets in the UK report that the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) has placed full-page advertisements in several national newspapers and has written to the Equality and […]
Immigration battles queues during airport upgrade
(CNS): The Department of Immigration is trying to address the growing queues of arriving passengers at Owen Roberts International Airport (ORIA) during the continued work on upgrading the facility. But with 26 inbound commercial flights on Saturday alone during the second weekend that the new hall was open, while still in peak season, it has […]
Sugar glider couple escape conviction
(CNS): Jimel McLean and Sabrina Walton walked away from court Thursday with a conditional discharge in relation to charges of importing a live animal. Even though they brought in a sugar glider, which is an alien species, without a licence, the crown opted to take a “pragmatic approach” to the case against the couple, who […]
Politicians wade in on coach’s deportation
(CNS): The opposition is calling on the government to deport former Trinidadian track star Ato Stephens, who was convicted last year of ‘sexting’ with an underage girl, as the authorities have “an obligation to send a very strong message”. The call follows a statement from the premier’s office yesterday that no decision has been made […]
Two arrested over gun after West Bay raid
(CNS): Police have arrested a 37-year-old man from George Town and a 23-year-old woman from West Bay over a loaded firearm following two raids in Safehaven and Watercourse Road, West Bay. The man has also been arrested for possession of cocaine. Officers said they are still investigating the case, which began with an operation yesterday […]
