Archive for 2021
Omicron fuels new rules on COVID testing
(CNS): Government has published new regulations that take effect on Friday, 17 December, which reduce the COVID-19 testing window for arriving passengers and people travelling to the Sister Islands. Travellers must now present a negative test result for COVID-19 that is no more than 24 hours old before boarding a plane where a transit or […]
Connor gets 12 years for terrifying home invasion
(CNS): Shane Connor (44) was sentenced to twelve years in prison on Friday for his part in a crime spree that culminated in a home invasion and robbery at a Prospect house in the early morning hours of 17 June 2017. Justice Dale Palmer took the view that Connor was not the real aggressor in […]
Fire-fighters have smouldering dump under control
(CNS): Officials from the Cayman Islands Fire Service and the Department of Environmental Health said Saturday that the situation at the landfill was under control, following the flare-up last Sunday, but that fire crews would likely remain there until next week to ensure that the remaining hot spots are cooled and do not re-ignite.
COVID-19 daily cases fall as 80% now vaxed
(CNS): The number of positive results fell sharply on Friday, when just 30 new cases of COVID-19, two of which were in travellers, were identified in a batch of 1,132 PCR tests conducted over the previous 24 hours, giving a positive test ratio of just 2.6%, the lowest in several months and an indication that […]
West Bay man admits having illegal gun in car
(CNS): Michael Conrad Ebanks (36), from West Bay, has admitted having a loaded .38 Smith & Wesson revolver in a car he was not insured for and not qualified to drive when he was stopped in George Town by RCIPS officers from the Firearms Response Unit. He has also admitted possessing two and a half ounces […]
Suspect denies robbing victim of over CI$2,900
(CNS): Tyree Jaden Welcome (22), from George Town, will face trial early next year after denying robbing a small business off Eastern Avenue in George Town and stealing CI$2,868 and US$60 in cash. Prosecutors say that Welcome was one of two masked men who entered the premises brandishing a machete and demanded money, frightening the […]
Butterfield gives generously to support hospice
(CNS): Jasmine Palliative and Hospice Care has announced that its patient room #1 will be named for Butterfield in recognition of the bank’s significant donation, to be made over the next three years, to support the non-profit organisation, which is dedicated to enhancing and improving the lives of people with life-limiting illnesses. This is the first […]
Ex-college worker guilty in child porn case
(CNS): Freddy Manuel Diaz-Christian (33), from West Bay, a former member of staff at the University College of the Cayman Islands and father of two, has been found guilty of possessing images and accessing child pornography online and has been remanded in custody pending sentencing in the New Year.
Cross-ministry approach planned to tackle homes crisis
(CNS): At least four ministries from the PACT Government will be involved in a wide number of plans and policies aimed at tackling the emerging housing crisis impacting Caymanians from all walks of life, as the real estate sector has created an unsustainable situation relating to property prices across the Cayman Islands.
Body of smuggler suspect washes ashore
(CNS): A body that washed up on the shore of East End Thursday morning is likely to be the missing man who was aboard a suspected ganja canoe which ran aground on the reef on Tuesday. When police arrested two men, both Jamaican nationals, aged 68 and 56, who had managed to make it to […]
17 COVID-19 patients currently in hospital
(CNS): The daily positive COVID-19 results reported on Thursday fell again to a new low of just 45 cases, or 6.4% of the batch 697 PCR tests conducted on Wednesday. But the number of people in hospital has increased to 17 patients after falling to 14 admissions at the beginning of the week.
