Archive for July 4th, 2018

Commission backs need to clarify CI constitution

Commission backs need to clarify CI constitution

| 04/07/2018 | 2 Comments

(CNS): As Cayman marked the 59th anniversary of its original constitution this week, the commission which has responsibility for the national document has published the advice it has given to the government ahead of planned talks with the UK to amend the 2009 Constitution. The Constitutional Commission is backing government’s desire to address specific issues […]

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Jury acquits local immigration agent of theft

Jury acquits local immigration agent of theft

| 04/07/2018 | 111 Comments

(CNS): The owner of a well-known local immigration business, Paulette Anglin-Lewis (54), was acquitted on Wednesday of two counts of theft, after a jury began deliberating on Tuesday morning. The four women and three men found her not guilty of stealing more than $55,000 from one of her clients after her attorney successfully argued that she […]

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Amnesty nets 18 guns and nearly 900 bullets

Amnesty nets 18 guns and nearly 900 bullets

| 04/07/2018 | 12 Comments

(CNS): Senior officers at the RCIPS were lauding the success of last month’s firearms amnesty on Wednesday, as they showed off the weapons and rounds of ammunition that were handed in to police as a result of the month-long clemency period. Throughout the month, 18 firearms and 896 bullets were handed in, including seven handguns. Deputy […]

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WB man’s death comes weeks after jail release

WB man’s death comes weeks after jail release

| 04/07/2018 | 13 Comments

(CNS): A local man who is understood to have taken his own life after he was found unresponsive at a home in Peace Lane, West Bay, yesterday morning was Matthew Carlyle Ebanks (31), police have confirmed. Ebanks had been released from HMP Northward just over six weeks ago after serving 268 days in connection with the possession […]

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Is McKeeva Bush a ‘doctor’?

Is McKeeva Bush a ‘doctor’?

| 04/07/2018 | 0 Comments

Updated with response from McKeeva Bush: I was on the Legislative Assembly website and noticed that in the biography section, McKeeva Bush is given the title “Dr”. I don’t recall him ever earning a university degree, much less a PhD. When did he earn his doctorate?

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Victim stabbed outside CAL ticket office

Victim stabbed outside CAL ticket office

| 04/07/2018 | 26 Comments

(CNS): A teenager who was stabbed outside the Cayman Airways headquarters on Roberts Drive in George Town yesterday afternoon at around 5:10 is in hospital recovering from what police said were non-life-threatening injuries. The RCIPS said that the victim and the two assailants were known to each other but a spokesperson did not confirm that […]

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