Archive for September, 2021
Prospect school closed after child positive for COVID
(CNS): A Year 6 student of the Prospect Primary School as well as the the child’s family, classmates and teachers who had prolonged interaction with that class have all been placed in quarantine after the child tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. Public Health confirmed that it has been on site testing children and staff […]
Pandemic causes significant drop in FOI requests
(CNS): The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the number of freedom of information requests made by members of the public last year, according to the Office of the Ombudsman, which released the statistics to mark International Right to Know Day on Tuesday. The number of requests in 2020 was the lowest ever made […]
Impact of coral disease on spawning under review
(CNS): Researchers from the Department of Environment were out diving Sunday and Monday night to assess the impact that stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is having on the annual coral spawning. The DoE team went on dives in East End and West Bay both nights with local scuba operators to monitor multiple species of […]
CPA urged not to allow clearing of critical habitat
(CNS): The Central Planning Authority is being urged not to allow a developer to clear two separate plots of critical natural habitat, one in Breakers and the other in High Rock, East End, in the absence of any development plans, given the growing concern about the loss of primary forest and mangroves. An application going […]
Jury urged not to convict ‘wrong man’
(CNS): Shane Connor is an innocent man who has been “gravely wronged” by a poor investigation and unsatisfactory evidence that has placed him in the dock facing charges for a serious home invasion, his attorney told a jury Monday as he summed up his client’s defence.
Cops respond to 25 weekend crashes
(CNS): The fatal collision on Friday evening in West Bay and the serious crash near Seven Mile Public Beach early Sunday morning were two of 25 road collisions reported to the RCIPS in another dangerous weekend for road users. From 24 September through 26 September, officers responded to the more than two dozen crashes all […]
Tourism minister confident of future rebound
(CNS): While the return of any kind of tourism for the rest of this year hangs in the balance, Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan said Monday in a message marking World Tourism Day that he remains confident the industry will eventually “rebound stronger than before”. The sector here has been largely on hold for more than […]
Five new local COVID cases linked to outbreaks
(CNS): Five more community transmission of COVID-19 have emerged from the 1,167 PCR test results over the weekend but all of these people were already isolating as three of them were connected to the North Side outbreak and the other two were connected to the cases at the George Town Primary School, according to Public […]
Barkers 5-storey hotel faces objections
(CNS): A controversial application for a hotel in West Bay just over a mile from the Barkers Beach National Park is being challenged by a local objector on a number of grounds, including legal technical challenges over setbacks and other compliance problems. But the project by Coe Group Ltd for the Barkers Beach Resort is […]
Man critical after West Bay road smash
(CNS): A man sustained life threatening injuries in another major collision on Grand Cayman’s roads early Saturday in what appears to be a single-vehicle crash near Public Beach on the West Bay Road. Less than 12 hours after a local man was killed in West Bay on Friday evening, the emergency services were called out […]
Man wounded in another West Bay shooting
(CNS): Police are investigating yet another incident of gun violence after two men were shot at off Bankers Road in West Bay during the early hours of Sunday morning. A report of shots being fired was made to 911 around 3am, and when officers and emergency services arrived they found one of the men had […]
