Archive for May, 2022
Students can defer exams missed due to COVID-19
(CNS): Education officials at the Department of Education Services (DES) say that students who cannot sit scheduled Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations due to COVID-19 may defer them until the next sitting in January or in June 2023 without having to re-register but will not be able to take them in this exam cycle. […]
Social media exec in line-up for Economic Outlook conference
(CNS): The 19th annual RF Economic Outlook Conference will take place on Wednesday, 8 June, under the theme “Future Forces: World-Changing Ideas”. The international guest speakers for the long-running local business forum include a blockchain entrepreneur, a geopolitical strategist, a global disruption expert, as well as an executive for Facebook and Google.
Cayman may be treated to spectacular meteor storm
(CNS): Stargazers in the Cayman Islands might, or might not, be treated to the greatest meteor storm of our lifetimes on Monday night, 30 May, the Cayman Islands Astronomical Society (CIAS) has said. If it happens it will be around midnight, when we could see as many as 1,000 meteors within half an hour, as […]
PACT preparing new policy on duty waivers
(CNS) The Cayman Islands Government is working on a new policy that is likely to upend the traditional approach to duty waivers and other concessions. Premier Wayne Panton told CNS that past administrations had given up revenue in exchange for jobs or to boost economic activity. But Cayman’s priorities have changed, he said, and PACT […]
Jamaica to supply more food in new deal with Cayman
(CNS): The Cayman Islands will be importing more plantain, breadfruit, soursop and ackee from Jamaica as part of a new import-export arrangement. Following a recent visit to the neighbouring island, Agriculture Minister Jay Ebanks approved a broadened list of agricultural produce from Jamaica to improve Cayman’s food security, saying that the new arrangement would give […]
Cops seize gun after stabbing in Prospect
(CNS): Police seized a firearm and arrested two people after responding to an assault at a home on Domino Street, Prospect, early Sunday morning in which one man was stabbed. The RCIPS said that two men and a woman, all known to each other, were involved in an altercation during which the woman brandished a […]
George Town man charged over gun found in raid
(CNS) A 54-year-old man from George Town has now been charged with the possession of an unlicensed firearm after his arrest on Tuesday following a raid at a house on Rock Hole Road. Police had searched the house under the Misuse of Drugs Act and found a loaded revolver containing six rounds of ammunition. Two […]
Jackson denies killing former prison officer
(CNS): Justin Kyle Jackson (23) has pleaded not guilty to the murder of former prison officer Harry Elliott (63) at an illegal gambling den in George Town on Monday, 25 April. However, appearing in Grand Court on Friday, Jackson did admit to possession of an unlawful gun that police seized from a car he was […]
Royal Caribbean ship crashes into Falmouth dock
(CNS): Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas crashed into part of the dock while arriving at Falmouth Port, Jamaica, Thursday morning, just before the Carnival Freedom caught fire at a dock in Grand Turk. On what appears to have been a bad day for the two major cruise lines, the damage to the third largest […]
Carnival cruise ship catches fire in Grand Turk
(CNS) A smokestack funnel on a Carnival cruise ship was engulfed in flames on Thursday morning after a fire broke out while the vessel was at the dock in Grand Turk. The Carnival Freedom was on the final stop of a five-night cruise with 2,504 guests and 972 crew aboard when the blaze started in […]
COVID-19 travel regulations to run another month
(CNS): Cabinet has now extended the Control of Covid-19 (Travel) (No. 2) Regulations until the end of June, officials said Thursday evening. This brings them into line with the management regulations, which were also extended until the end of June last month. The extension of the rules surrounding travel means that unvaccinated adult tourists with […]
