Archive for July, 2020
Couple charged after cops seize 240lbs ganja
(CNS): A 22-year-old woman from George Town and a 27-year-old man from of East End have been charged with drug offences after a search in Prospect Friday evening turned up over 240lbs of ganja. As police arrived at the address at around 6pm, a man carrying a suitcase left the house in a Jeep. But […]
More evacuation flights in the works
(CNS): While Cayman’s borders remain closed until the soft reopening in September, several more repatriation flights are being organised over the next few weeks and returning passengers will still need to quarantine for 14 days. Governor Martyn Roper said some progress had been made on a repatriation flight to Nicaragua but no date had been […]
Man stabbed at GT gas station
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now arrested and charged a 21-year-old man from George Town with Wounding with Intent in connection with a violent assault at a gas station early Monday morning. A man was stabbed just before 5am at the Esso service station on Walkers Road, near the intersection of Boilers Road. He was approached […]
Antibody test restrictions lifted
(CNS): Cayman has undertaken 1,461 antibody blood tests, largely among healthcare workers and those who have had COVID-19 or were close contacts of those that have. But on Friday Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee said he would be lifting the restrictions on this type of testing because he didn’t think it was revealing much […]
Coastguard looking for local recruits
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coast Guard is now hiring and has ten vacancies for Caymanians aged between 18 and 35. The creation of this unit is an amalgamation of the RCIPS Marine Unit and other relevant parts of uniform branches. Its main functions are search and rescue, and netting drugs, guns and illegal immigrants. As […]
OfReg exec jobs advertised day after PAC
(CNS): The timing of advertisements placed in the local print media for the executive director positions for both the ICT and electricity sectors at OfReg were “purely coincidental”, said the CEO Malike Cummings, and “not in any way tied to the incumbents’ testimonies during the current Public Accounts Committee”. The senior jobs held by Alee […]
OfReg set back ICT progress, says director
(CNS): The executive director responsible for the regulation of the telecommunications sector under the umbrella utilities regulator, OfReg, has said the creation of this entity had not only failed to meet public expectations but had also undermined the progress of ICT regulation and development. Alee Fa’amoe told the Public Accounts Committee that the creation of […]
Bahamas shutting back down over COVID-19 spike
(CNS): The Bahamas will close its borders this week for commercial flights from the United States and other countries, not including the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada, due to a rise in COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has announced. The Bahamas opened to guests just three weeks ago but Minnis said […]
Police on the hunt for attacker
(CNS): One man is in hospital and another on the run after an altercation at a service station on Shamrock Road, near Selkirk Drive in Red Bay, early Saturday morning. Police said that around 3:30am on 18 July a man was injured by someone he did not know who struck him with an unknown object. […]
Bio-buttons lead way on phased border opening
(CNS): Government will be depending on the use of bio-buttons or bio-stickers with GPS fencing (a location monitoring system) as it begins a six month phased reopening of the borders to air travellers in September. On Friday Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell revealed some of the ideas the ministry is considering to enable a slow and […]
Week ends with no more COVID-19 positives
(CNS): Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee revealed Friday that there were no positive samples of COVID-19 from a batch of 270 tests processed over the last 24 hours. With just two active cases now in Cayman in asymptomatic patients, the CMO said that he had asked UK officials to speak with the World Health […]
