Archive for 2021
Bars, clubs to close by midnight in face of Omicron
(CNS): The government will be rolling out new regulations forcing bar, club and restaurant owners to close by midnight every evening until New Year’s Eve as a way of preventing a potential new and explosive wave of COVID-19 infections related to the Omicron variant. During Thursday’s press briefing, Medical Officer of Health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez […]
Stalled NWP development gets OK from new CPA
(CNS): A 5-storey oceanfront apartment complex of 32 units, three swimming pools and a roof terrace has been given the green light by the Central Planning Authority in the face of objections, environmental concerns and the excess height and scale of the project that led to the previous board denying the application.
Over 300 locals look for tourism work at job fair
(CNS): Hundreds of Caymanian and permanent resident job seekers attended the Tourism Job Fair last week at the Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort in the hope of securing work in the hospitality sector as visitors slowly begin returning to Cayman. While the pandemic is still creating uncertainty for the tourism sector, the larger employers […]
Cops fire ‘bean bag round’ at machete-wielding woman
(CNS): Police said they deployed “less-lethal methods” on Sunday afternoon to prevent officers and the public from being hurt by a woman wielding a machete during an altercation at Lakeside Villas, off the Esterley Tibbetts Highway. An RCIPS spokesperson confirmed the police had fired a “bean bag round” at the woman after they had warned […]
Get booster shots to avoid COVID catastrophe
John Snow writes: I’m a scientist. I’m worried. Very worried. I feel these islands are sleepwalking into a catastrophe greater than anything in living memory, greater even than Ivan or the ’32 Storm. We are on the verge of a national crisis that can be seen as clearly as an approaching hurricane and no one […]
Roper urges booster take-up as Omicron arrives
(CNS): There were just 29 new cases of COVID-19, including two travellers, among 864 PCR tests carried out between 8am Tuesday and 8am Wednesday, the lowest number in one day since early October with a positivity rate of less than 3.5%. But the good news that the community transmission appears to be slowing was undermined […]
Adam court case ends but access saga rolls on
(CNS): Former Cabinet minister Mike Adam and his two sons walked away from court this week with a clean slate after a magistrate recorded no convictions against the men, who had all pleaded guilty to common assault in September following a row with a neighbour over access rights to their West Bay home back in […]
Bracker faces list of charges over angry rampage
(CNS): Geoff Scott (24) appeared in court Wednesday facing eight charges in relation to what has been described on social media as an angry rampage at the family home in Cayman Brac at the weekend. Scott was arrested on Sunday after an altercation with a man understood to be his brother. His is charged with […]
Traveller to Cayman has Omicron variant
(CNS): Public Health officials have confirmed that a traveller currently in quarantine has the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was detected through genomic sequencing in a test sample but officials have not said which country the individual had travelled from, when they arrived, if they had been in isolation from the point of […]
COVID contracts and spending under scrutiny
(CNS): The money government has spent on supplies to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic is being scrutinized by the Office of the Auditor General. Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, government has spent tens of millions of dollars managing the impact of the virus here, both directly and indirectly.
GT man gets 10 years for club car park killing
(CNS): Mason Courtney Bryan (29) was handed a ten year prison term on Wednesday for the manslaughter of Recardo Lionel Pars in a nightclub car park at The Strand plaza in August last year. Bryan stabbed Pars during a fight in which prosecutors accept both Pars and his younger brother attacked Bryan, provoking the escalation […]
