Archive for May 26th, 2022
Fuel import costs increased 44% in 2021
(CNS): Petroleum and petroleum-related import costs grew by 44% last year, reaching a record $128.9 million as a result of the high average prices of all major fuels brought into the country, according to the Annual Foreign Trade Statistics Report published by the Economics and Statistics Office on Thursday. The report reveals that the total […]
COVID-19 weekly report changing to reflect more diseases
(CNS): The weekly COVID-19 report covering the third week of May, which was released Thursday morning, will be the last report dealing with the coronavirus pandemic alone. Given the emerging global diseases like monkeypox, next week it will become a newsletter that covers all communicable and non-communicable diseases impacting the community. This last COVID-19 report […]
More Cubans arrive on Brac in badly damaged boat
(CNS): Four Cuban men landed on Cayman Brac at about 11:30 Wednesday night, but their vessel was very badly damaged as it crashed onto the ironshore, Customs and Border Control said in a press release. The four migrants, who are being processed in accordance with established protocols, were trying to get to Grand Cayman but […]
Turtles, coral and mangroves top climate risk list
(CNS): Scientists visiting the Cayman Islands from the UK who are helping the Ministry of Sustainability and Climate Resiliency undertake a comprehensive assessment of the risks the country faces from climate change have already identified over fifty areas under threat. At a public meeting Wednesday evening on what they had learned so far from their […]
Budget forecasts can improve, Jefferson admits
(CNS): Government’s tendency to underestimate how much revenue it expects to collect is the result of “human nature” and a deliberate desire on the part of successive administrations in recent years to avoid the risk of a deficit and to take a conservative approach to spending ahead of the budget, only to spend the extra […]
One man killed in early morning road crash
(CNS) UPDATED: A 41-year-old man was killed in a two-vehicle crash on the West Bay Road that happened at around 4:00 Thursday morning by the Ritz Carlton hotel at the junction of Safehaven Drive. Police said that the driver of a Honda Civic died after he was trapped in the car following a collision with […]
