Archive for November 25th, 2019

Trust and CPR file official legal action on port vote

Trust and CPR file official legal action on port vote

| 25/11/2019 | 42 Comments

(CNS): The National Trust for the Cayman Islands and the Cruise Port Referendum group have now filed official legal actions over the decision to hold the people’s referendum on the cruise berthing project before critical information is available. Earlier this month the Trust sent a letter to government warning them that they were considering legal […]

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Cruise line was ready to tender Oasis ship

Cruise line was ready to tender Oasis ship

| 25/11/2019 | 52 Comments

(CNS): Documents and emails leaked from the Port Authority of the Cayman Islands indicate that government had come to an arrangement back in 2012 with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to tender its first Oasis class ship, the Allure of the Seas. The revelation that the UDP administration at the time had invested in related security […]

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Cayman mourns loss of veteran reporter

Cayman mourns loss of veteran reporter

| 25/11/2019 | 25 Comments

(CNS) UPDATED with CJ’s comments: Following the passing of Carol Winker, one of Cayman’s best known and much loved local reporters yesterday, aged 79, the chief justice has said he was deeply saddened by the news as he held her in the highest regard. “I first met Ms Winker in the early 1980s when I […]

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Speaker claims social media hacked

Speaker claims social media hacked

| 25/11/2019 | 71 Comments

(CNS): House Speaker McKeeva Bush says he has reported a social media hack to the police after he appeared to post his cell phone numbers underneath a picture of a scantily clad woman, a post that was circulated widely on several different sites over the weekend. But Bush has not denied engaging in angry exchanges, […]

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Two killed in separate BT crashes

Two killed in separate BT crashes

| 25/11/2019 | 35 Comments

(CNS) UPDATED: Two men have been killed in two separate motor collisions in Bodden Town which happened around 12 hours apart. Police have confirmed that a pedestrian was run down by at least one car, probably two both of which left the scene, in the Lookout Garden area of the district on Sunday evening at […]

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