Archive for June 11th, 2019
CPR set to deliver cruise petition
(CNS): Making history in the Cayman Islands, campaigners behind the petition for a people-initiated referendum on the government’s proposed cruise berthing facility will be delivering the original petition with around 5,500 voters’ signatures to the Elections Office tomorrow. The grassroots activists, who have been working on collecting the signatures since last August, have now satisfied […]
Smuggling suspects ‘connected to crime underworld’
(CNS): Prosecutors have alleged that two Venezuelan nationals charged with smuggling US$135,000 in cash, which was found hidden in a private plane at Owen Roberts International Airport last week, have direct “connections to the criminal underworld”. Crown counsel Garcia Kelly told the Summary Court Tuesday that the plane’s captain, pilot Juan Carlos Gonzales Infante, and […]
Kids free healthcare on minister’s agenda
(CNS): Government will be taking a look at whether it would be possible to provide free healthcare for all children in the Cayman Islands, having accepted a private member’s motion on the issue last week. But despite Health Minister Dwayne Seymour’s claim that his ministry was already looking seriously at this proposal, the premier made […]