Archive for August 3rd, 2021
Men jailed for 15 years in fatal bar beating
(CNS): Jeremy Parchman (21) and Shimar Kelly (23) were each sentenced on Tuesday to seven and a half years in prison for the manslaughter of Dinesh Asanka Fernando Wannukawatta-Waduge from Sri Lanka, who was working in Cayman as a chef when he was killed at Bananas nightclub, George Town, in 2019. Parchman and Kelly were […]
Wray records personal best in Olympic debut
(CNS): Shalysa Wray clocked a personal best outdoor time of 53.61 in the women’s 400m heats in Tokyo on Monday, as she made her Olympic debut. Wray was the first Caymanian to run in this event in the Olympics and she met her goal for the Games of running a PB. But given the field […]
Pride is not that black and white
Billie “Bee” Bryan writes: “Baby steps.” Those are the words so many have tried to placate me with whenever I’m enquired about my response to “Cayman Gay Pride”. As if to suggest that any action taken to uplift LGBTQIA+ people in the Cayman Islands is without scrutiny and that the event was “at least” a […]
RCIPS officer retires after four decades of service
(CNS): Inspector Courtney Myles is finally hanging up his baton and boots after serving the RCIPS over the last four decades. Myles did not have far to go when he he passed the police exam and joined the police force in 1979 at just 17 years old as he grew up just three hundred yards […]
