Archive for February, 2022
Ministry gives charity $1.5M to repair damaged homes
(CNS): Money that was allocated in the 2020/21 budget to repair the homes of those most in need but was not spent has been given to a local charity that is already funding and undertaking numerous projects for Caymanians in need. The social development ministry has given $1.5 million to the R3 Cayman Foundation as […]
Tagged young turtles could recover ‘lost years’
(CNS): Scientists are hoping that a new research project in Grand Cayman could reveal the ‘lost years’ of marine turtles. Thirty juvenile green sea turtles of varying ages that were all raised at the Cayman Turtle Conservation and Education Centre (CTCEC) have been fitted with tiny tracking devices and released directly into the sea to […]
Opposition challenges bond but mum on o’seas offices
(CNS): Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart has released yet another video criticising the government over plans for a 30-year bullet bond as a method of financing new and existing borrowing. But the PPM leader is keeping mum over allegations that the previous administration, in which he was finance minister, misspent some $6 million and mishandled the […]
Controversial LC resort gets partial green light
(CNS): A proposed new beach resort development at Kingston Bight on Little Cayman, where developers want to build overwater bungalows, has been given a partial green light after the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board considered the application last week for the land-side component of the project.
Octogenarian dies from COVID-related causes
(CNS): An 86-year-old patient who was fully vaccinated but suffering from severe comorbidities died Wednesday as a result of COVID-19 related causes. This is the sixteenth person to die as a result of SARS-CoV-2 over the last two years in Cayman since the virus arrived on our shores. Another 15 people are in hospital due […]
Online form created for quicker quarantine exit
(CNS): The Public Health Department has created a new online platform to enable people who tested positive for COVID-19 but have completed their full isolation period, are asymptomatic and have CT values of 32 or more to be released more quickly. An early release request can be sent to PHD through the new online form […]
Burglars make off with safe after home invasion
(CNS): Two masked men made off with a safe from a house in South Sound, following a home invasion Tuesday afternoon. The homeowner, who lives on Anne Bonny Crescent, interrupted the burglars as they were prying out the bolted-down home safe with a crowbar. The homeowner was forced into another room and locked in. The […]
Killer brothers appeal to come home from UK jail
(CNS): Osbourne Douglas and Justin Ramoon, who are both in British jails serving life sentences for the 2015 gang murder of Jason Powery, have filed a legal appeal to serve their time back here in the Cayman Islands. The case was heard by the appeal court in a special sitting last month when the two […]
Request for o’seas offices made day after election call
(CNS): Governor Martyn Roper made the requests for Cayman to open two overseas offices the day after then premier Alden McLaughlin brought the election forward, according to details in the controversial report by the Office of the Auditor General. On 10 February McLaughlin, now Sir Alden, told the country the election would take place on […]
New online site created for government jobs
(CNS): Government has launched a new online recruitment website for civil service and public sector jobs. What was previously just a database listing of vacancies has been changed into a fully functional recruitment portal that allows jobseekers to store and update their employment profile in a format that can be reused for multiple job applications.
Brac power company says it won’t run out of fuel
(CNS): With multiple cases of COVID-19 preventing a tanker from unloading its fuel destined for the Sister Islands, the local electricity provider, Cayman Brac Power and Light Company has posted a notice on its social media pages reassuring customers that it has enough diesel to last another eleven days on the Brac and four weeks […]
