Archive for September 23rd, 2021

PACT releases security meeting round-up

PACT releases security meeting round-up

| 23/09/2021 | 18 Comments

(CNS): The PACT Government has released a short summary of the issues discussed at the most recent National Security Council (NSC) meeting. While it is a very brief description of what happened, it is the first time any official information has been released about the NSC, which meets behind closed doors. The constitutional body is […]

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Lawyers to head immigration boards

Lawyers to head immigration boards

| 23/09/2021 | 100 Comments

(CNS): Government has made several more appointments to some of the country’s most important boards. According to a government gazette published yesterday, lawyers will be heading up the main immigration boards. Maxine Bodden has been appointed as chair of the Work Permit Board, Richard Barton now chairs the Business Staffing Plan Board and Steve McField […]

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Connor denies home invasion allegations

Connor denies home invasion allegations

| 23/09/2021

(CNS): Shane Connor (44), from George Town, told a jury yesterday that he was completely innocent of the charges against him relating to a violent home invasion in Prospect more than four years ago. Taking the stand in his own defence on Wednesday, Connor alleged a conspiracy by the police against him and said they […]

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Police want missing leave time back

Police want missing leave time back

| 23/09/2021 | 32 Comments

(CNS): Police officers in the RCIPS have asked a court to give them back their missing vacation time, arguing that they lost as much as a third of the leave entitlement they used to have due to a change in the shift policy that was implemented at the beginning of this year. As a judicial […]

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Webb’s sentenced postponed for eleventh time

Webb’s sentenced postponed for eleventh time

| 23/09/2021 | 37 Comments

(CNS): Jeff Webb, Cayman’s disgraced football hero and former CONCACAF president and FIFA vice president, has had his sentencing hearing for his role in the FIFA corruption scandal postponed yet again. The case has been pushed back to December, six years after the George Town man admitted his part in the FBI investigation that shook […]

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