Archive for February 16th, 2022
Veteran investigator to head up Sister Islands policing
(CNS): Chief Inspector Malcolm Kay, who has served some 25 years in the RCIPS, most recently as head of special operations, has been appointed as the new area commander for the Sister Islands, based in Cayman Brac. Kay is probably best known for his operational policing experience heading up serious and complex investigations in the […]
Court orders CoP to give back officers’ vacation
(CNS): The police commissioner’s move to change the policy on shift patterns for uniform officers in the RCIPS that effectively deprived many of them of a chunk of their annual leave entitlement was unlawful, a court has found. The police association and two named officers challenged the policy under a judicial review, in particular the […]
Ex-minister’s land dispute troubles roll on
(CNS): Mike Adam, the one-time community affairs minister in the last of the UDP administrations, is still embroiled in a land dispute with his neighbour over access rights that no one in authority seems to want to resolve. Once again, stones have been placed across an access road preventing the Adam family from getting to […]
Daily COVID-19 cases continue to decline
(CNS): Daily positive cases of COVID-19 confirmed by the Public Health Department through PCR testing showed a significant decline over the weekend. The official number of positives was 103 on Friday, 89 on Saturday and just 54 on Sunday. So far 97 samples from Monday’s PCR tests have been confirmed as positive by Public Health. […]