Archive for April 1st, 2021
Missing teenage girl found
(CNS) UPDATED FRIDAY: Tahja Carter (16), who had been missing from the Frances Bodden Children’s Home for almost a week, has been found and appears to be in good health, the RCIPS said Friday morning. She was reported missing on Tuesday, 30 March, but has now been located and spoken to.
Two in quarantine lockdown after isolation breach
(CNS): Government officials have reported that was another alleged breach of COVID-19 isolation protocols on Wednesday, when, during a routine welfare check, the Travel Cayman Mobile Compliance Team found an unauthorised visitor at a residence where a traveller was in isolation. The incident has been reported to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS), who […]
Cayman’s ‘Ivan’ governor dies aged 75
(CNS): Bruce Dinwiddy (1946-2021), who served as the Cayman Islands Governor from May 2002 until October 2005, has died in the UK. Dinwiddy was in office when the islands were struck by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004 and was instrumental in leading the recovery. He had been appointed to serve in these islands after almost […]
Slow progress on renewables an ‘abysmal failure’
(CNS): James Whittaker, the chairperson of the Cayman Renewable Energy Association, has said it is an “abysmal failure” that in twelve years of aiming to introduce alternative energy, Cayman has only managed to reach a renewable power provision of just 2.5%. He has warned that the country is “nowhere near meeting the goal” of 70% […]
