Archive for 2021
Two more lives lost to COVID-19
(CNS): The death toll from the SARS-CoV-2 virus increased to eleven on Tuesday as two more patients died who were positive for COVID-19. No specific details were released about the victims but officials said that from the nine deaths this year in Cayman in patients who acquired the virus during the community outbreak which began […]
28 crashes reported over last weekend
(CNS): The RCIPS dealt with more than two dozen crashes and issued more than fifty road tickets for speeding and tint, and prosecuted two people for drinking and driving in the third and busiest weekend so far of the road safety campaign, Winter Guardian. One of this weekend’s 28 road collisions involved a pedestrian on […]
Minister and his PS locked down with Omicron
(CNS): Planning Minister Jay Ebanks and Parliamentary Secretary Isaac Rankine are locked down for the Christmas holidays after testing positive for COVID-19, officials have confirmed. The men will also be locked down with their immediate families for two weeks because, despite being vaccinated and having had a booster shot, the men are suspected of having […]
Cars catch fire near GT home
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Fire Service was called out to a major blaze in Seymour Drive, George Town, early Tuesday morning. Officials said that several vehicles were ablaze at the scene when firefighters arrived. The vehicles were burning by an open wall close to a residential property which was also fully engulfed in flames. However, […]
New road pavings in George Town irritate drivers
(CNS): The appearance of new paved road ramps in downtown George Town around Heroes Square are irritating drivers, who say the raised crossings are too high and wide for some cars to navigate safely. The ramps are part of the capital’s revitalization project and the ultimate pedestrianization of the area around the courthouse, library and […]
44 cases of Omicron waiting confirmation
(CNS): Government has said that in addition to the four confirmed cases of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus there are now another 44 suspected cases that are still waiting to be confirmed through genome sequencing. These probable cases have been accumulating since Thursday and are in travellers and from community spread.
Fraudster given seat on transport board
(CNS): Edlin Myles, who was convicted of using his previous position on a government board to con would-be tenants of the housing trust to buy insurance from him, has been appointed to the Public Transport Board. Despite being given a six-month sentence for the significant fraud and breach of the public’s trust when he was […]
WORC board delays related to ‘necessary’ training
(CNS): Officials at Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC) have said that the delays to the processing of work permits over the last few months has been due to the need to train the new board members. According to the CITA president and Ritz general manager, Marc Langevin, work permits in the hospitality sector are not […]
Activists clear 7 tonnes of beach rubbish in 2021
(CNS): Volunteers who took part throughout 2021 in regular weekend beach clean-ups cleared over seven tonnes of rubbish, most of it plastics, from local beaches across the Cayman Islands. The activists also revealed that 2021 marked a significant increase in plastic waste on our beaches, up more than 30% from 2019.
Suspected Omicron cases steadily increasing
(CNS): In a limited release about the current situation in the Cayman Islands relating to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of the very contagiou Omicron variant, health officials have implied that there are now around 35 people infected with this new strain but only four cases have been confirmed.
Dump on Cabinet agenda but no details revealed
(CNS): Cabinet was updated last week on what’s happening with the integrated solid waste management system, according to the note released by officials summarizing the weekly meeting of government’s frontbench ministers and the governor. But other than noting that Cabinet “approved a guarantee of payment to the Decco Consortium”, no other details were released about […]
