Archive for December 7th, 2020
Traveller ‘escaped’ from quarantine
(CNS): Police are investigating another breach of isolation by a traveller who has been at a government-run facility. The man went missing from what is supposed to be a secure quarantine location on Sunday. Officials who revealed the breach in a release Monday evening did not say how long the man was in the community […]
Mac goes on attack against PAC chairman
(CNS): Speaker McKeeva Bush courted even more controversy on Monday, when he went on the attack against the Public Accounts Committee chairman. As he sought to justify his recent decision to withhold a report by PAC, he questioned why Ezzard Miller was still holding the position when he was no longer a member of the […]
78 COVID-19 cases since border opening
(CNS): Another traveller tested positive for COVID-19 at the weekend, which brings the total recorded positive cases of the virus since the border was opened on 1 October to 78. The latest positive sample was among a batch of 422 tests, the rest of which were negative, carried out since Friday on travellers entering or […]
Government launches skills website
(CNS) Government has launched a campaign to promote lifelong learning for Caymanians. It is focused around a website, Skills 4 Life, which is designed to showcase opportunities for people to learn new skills and improve their chance of getting a job or advancing their careers. The campaign comes against a backdrop of job losses due […]
Cubans in quarantine after landing on Little Cayman
(CNS): Twelve Cuban migrants have been placed in a government quarantine facility on Cayman Brac after the ten men and two women landed on Little Cayman on Sunday. Before they were spotted by a fisherman off Little Cayman, the group was reportedly at sea for five days in a makeshift vessel under sail, without a […]
Park and blues pair up to boost takings
(CNS): The National Trust for the Cayman Islands and the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park are partnering up for a special December promotion to encourage residents to fill the hole in their income this year from the tourism closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials are hoping that locals will take advantage of a deal […]
Autonomy will keep OTs in UK family
(CNS): The more autonomy the British government gives to its overseas territories, the more likely they are to remain in the UK family, Premier Alden McLaughlin said Friday in his address marking the state opening of the new Parliament. If the UK wants to keep the territories over the long term, it must “loosen the […]
Man pistol whipped at Dump Road bar
(CNS): Police are investigating reports of gunshots and a man being pistol-whipped near a bar in the industrial area of George Town at around midnight on Saturday night-Sunday morning. A man who had been at a bar on Seymour Road (aka Dump Road) turned up at the police station in George Town with an injury […]
Smiles and handshakes for guilty speaker
(CNS): Government leaders were all smiles and handshakes as they were greeted by House Speaker McKeeva Bush on Friday at the official naming of Parliament, just 24 hours after he appeared in court and admitted assaulting a female bar manager in a drunken frenzy earlier this year. Bush was in full ceremonial garb as he […]
Restoration project starting to bear coral
(CNS): The Central Caribbean Marine Institute has said that in its latest dome outplanting project of the endangered staghorn coral, the scientists saw an 89% survival rate after six months for over 120 corals restored onto the reef. CCMI has been working on coral restoration for eight years now and has learned much about this emerging but […]
