Archive for March 28th, 2018
Troubled teenager on the run again
(CNS): Just two days after 15-year-old Motesha Mothen was found after running away last week, she has absconded again. The teenager, who is from West Bay but is currently staying at the Francis Bodden Girls Home in Bodden Town, attended the John Gray High School, where she is a student, in her uniform on Tuesday […]
Governor counts himself ‘lucky’ over new job
(CNS): Governor Anwar Choudhury asked guests at Government House rhetorically, “How lucky am I, as an ambassador, to be given this wonderful placement?” Speaking at a reception at his new home Tuesday evening on his second day on island and clearly delighted with his new job, he also noted the warm welcome he was given. He […]
Legal scholarship takes Caymanian lawyer to partner
(CNS): Samuel Banks, who began his legal career as a Cayman Islands Appleby scholarship recipient before joining the articled clerk programme, has been made a partner. Called to the bar in 2010 Banks is now a Blockchain technology and insurance expert in the firm’s corporate practice group and also recommended as a leading lawyer in Legal 500. […]
Cruise ship crew member missing in Cayman
(CNS): A 34-year-old Cuban woman working on a cruise ship that docked in Grand Cayman Tuesday was reported missing after she failed to re-board the ship before its departure from George Town later that day. The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service were told about the missing woman yesterday (Tuesday 27 March) and are asking for […]
Cash security robbed at fast-food restaurant
(CNS): Security staff collecting cash from Wendy’s in Savannah were robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday night. The RCIPS said that just before 11:40pm yesterday police officers were called to the scene following a report that the guards in a security van had been approached by two armed men with their faces covered. The robbers demanded that […]
Police net drunk dump truck driver at bar
(CNS): A 58-year-old North Side man ended up behind bars last Friday night after he was found to be almost two times over the alcohol limit behind the wheel of a dump truck. The police caught up with the driver and his truck outside a George Town bar after other drivers called in a report about […]
Cayman jumps up ranks in financial centre index
(CNS): The Cayman Islands has jumped up eleven places in this year’s first edition of The Global Financial Centres Index. The biannual report rates and then ranks over 100 cities and jurisdictions that offer financial services, and Cayman is now the highest ranked centre in the Caribbean, with a rating of over 700 points, leapfrogging Bermuda, which was […]
