Archive for May, 2021
COVID vaccination rate inches up to 66%
(CNS): With another 269 people getting a first shot of the COVID-19 vaccination over the last day, the current rate of those having at least one dose has risen to 66%, while those who have had both does is now at 56%, which is still 14% short of the government’s minimum target before consideration will […]
Showing off ‘imitation’ gun earns man 6 years in jail
(CNS): Kurt Stephenson Carter (31) has been sentenced to just under six years in prison after he was convicted earlier this year for possessing an imitation firearm with intent to commit a crime. Carter was caught because of CCTV evidence that clearly shows him showing off the weapon to people outside a George Town bar […]
CPA to hear apartment plan before re-zone
(CNS): The Central Planning Authority’s agenda for today’s meeting includes a controversial application for a high density residential project in the South Sound wetlands that remains the subject of a re-zone application. However, Cabinet has not yet decided on the re-zoning, which poses a significant environmental and flood threat to the area. Pro-Plus Construction and […]
Public to get their say on Dart dump project
(CNS): As Dart gets down to work on tackling Cayman’s waste-management problem after signing a deal with the previous government just weeks before the election, the islands’ largest landowner and government officials will hold three public meetings next month, according to a government advertisement in local print news. The meetings are steps towards the environmental […]
COVID vaccine pace slows again
(CNS): Just 164 more people got their first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine over the last day after a surge in up-take over the weekend and a successful vaccine drive in Cayman Brac. Currently 42,521 people, or 65% of the estimated population, have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 56% have had […]
‘Flasher’ arrested after incident on 7MB
(CNS): A 31-year-old man from West Bay has been charged with committing an act outraging public decency after he reportedly exposed himself to a woman on Seven Mile Beach in the vicinity of Sundowner Close, off West Bay Road, on Saturday morning. The woman reported that a man whom she did not know had exposed […]
Man sustains head injuries in assault
(CNS): Police are looking for witnesses to a mysterious assault that happened somewhere in the Mount Pleasant area of West Bay just after 8:45pm on Monday. The only details offered by the RCIPS of the incident was that emergency services were called to an unspecified location in the neighbourhood, where they found a man with […]
BA repatriation schedule still in the works
(CNS): Government officials have said that until the borders reopen and commercial flights begin operating once again, the only passenger flights approved to operate during this period are to facilitate repatriation travel. While government said it is continuing to work closely with British Airways to secure a consistent flight schedule to and from the UK, […]
Activists propose conservation plan for mangroves
(CNS): Sustainable Cayman has come up with a comprehensive, logical and workable solution to preserve some of the threatened wetland in South Sound. With hundreds of acres of critical mangrove habitat under threat from a significant amount of proposed development in the area, the local activist group has suggested a wildlife corridor scheme for the […]
Nurse killed in weekend fatal smash
(CNS): Police have now confirmed that Kiarah Shikale Perkins (32) was the woman who died in the road crash in South Sound around 1:00 Sunday morning. Perkins, a US national living on Grand Cayman, was a nurse employed by the Health Services Authority, according to social media posts. Perkins was killed when the Honda Fit […]
Sentences stick for ganja smugglers
(CNS): The Court of Appeal has upheld the sentences handed down last year to three Jamaican men who were caught in drug canoe attempting to smuggle over 670lbs of ganja into the Cayman Islands. All three men had admitted the charges but argued that the jail time they received was too long. Linton Nypole Pillarchie, […]
