Archive for March, 2020
Man charged over WB assault
(CNS): A 41-year-old man from West Bay has been remanded in custody after he appeared in court Monday charged with wounding with Intent, and unlawful wounding in relation to a violent assault that played out on an innocent family’s property at the weekend. The suspect was arrested Saturday accused of attacking another man with a […]
Two small tremors shake East End
(CNS): Cayman experienced two small earth quakes recently, and although residents reported feeling them neither of the tremors were of significant magnitude. According to the USGS, at 1:35pm on Sunday there was a quake measuring around 4.6M about 31 miles off the coast of East End, followed by a second smaller tremor on Monday about […]
Suspect gold smugglers acquitted
(CNS): A jury reached not guilt verdicts last week on all of the charges against a group of men accused of smuggling over $6 million worth of dirty gold across international borders, believed to be the proceeds of crime. After a trial lasting more than a dozen weeks, beset by numerous delays, the men were […]
HSA patient COVID-19 positive, lockdown coming
(CNS): A Health Services Authority patient has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a preliminary sample tested at the local lab. The patient had no travel history and was not symptomatic but was tested because he may have needed unrelated emergency treatment in the United States, but without a negative test result he would not […]
Woman arrested over booze shop robbery
(CNS): Police have arrested a 35-year-old West Bay woman in connection with an armed robbery at the Tortuga liquor store in Governor’s Square last month. However, she has not been charged and was granted bail following her arrest on Friday. CNS understands that the woman is a former employee at the store, which was robbed […]
Miller urges big business to support workers
(CNS): Public Accounts Committee Chair Ezzard Miller (NS) is supporting government measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, but he has urged larger businesses to step up and support the wider community. Urging business owners to put the country and its people first, he encouraged them to rise above the letter of the law, to […]
Police nab 4 month over-stayer
(CNS): Police handed over a 41-year-old Jamaican man to Customs and Border Control after they discovered he had no legal right to be in the Cayman Islands and had been overstaying since December. But it is not clear now what will happen to the man, given that Cayman has closed its airport. He was arrested […]
Test shortage poses growing problem
(CNS): Cayman continues to be in the dark about the potential impact of COVID-19 in the community as a result of the inability of the public authorities to test anywhere near enough people to paint an accurate picture of infection rates. Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee made it clear Monday that this was because […]
Ten-day curfew to be imposed
(CNS): A curfew will be imposed on everyone in the Cayman Islands from 9pm until 5am for ten days from Tuesday 24 March in an effort to contain the potential spread of COVID-19 in the community following the recent return of many residents from countries where the pandemic is raging. The governor, premier and police […]
Motorcyclist killed after losing control
(CNS) UPDATED 25 MARCH: The 44-year-old man who was killed around 10 minutes after midnight Monday morning after losing control of the black Ducati motorcycle he was riding has been identified as Mario Spirto, an Italian national living in Cayman. The single-vehicle crash happened as he was travelling east on the Hurley Merren Blvd between […]
Opposition calls for pension access
(CNS): Opposition members are urging government to introduce a suspension on the mandated pension regime for six months and to amend the law to allow people in the private sector to take up to $850 per month from their own pension fund until September. They are also asking government to find a way to address […]
