Archive for May, 2022

Customs boss to face MPs on failures over improvements

Customs boss to face MPs on failures over improvements

| 25/05/2022 | 53 Comments

(CNS): Customs and Border Control Director Charles Clifford is one of several senior government officials due to face the Public Accounts Committee today (Wednesday) to explain why many of the recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor General have not been implemented. A report published in February highlighted the fact that the CBC has […]

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DVDL customer injured at inspection centre

DVDL customer injured at inspection centre

| 24/05/2022 | 31 Comments

 (CNS): A customer was taken for “medical assistance” on Tuesday morning following an undisclosed incident while the individual was at the Department of Vehicle and Driver’s Licensing Centre in Breakers getting a car inspected. Officials from the Ministry of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure said they were aware that a customer was hurt and were […]

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Governor’s Bird Sanctuary faces development threat

Governor’s Bird Sanctuary faces development threat

| 24/05/2022 | 57 Comments

(CNS): The Governor Michael Gore Bird Sanctuary, a well-known natural beauty spot in Savannah owned by the National Trust, is the latest piece of scarce and unique local wilderness threatened by development. An application for an apartment complex on an adjacent piece of land across from the wetlands and pond is expected to be heard […]

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All yellow plates to be replaced by year-end

All yellow plates to be replaced by year-end

| 24/05/2022 | 48 Comments

(CNS): The Department of Vehicle and Drivers’ Licensing (DVDL) expects that all the old ‘yellow’ vehicle registration plates will be replaced before the year is out. It now has all the numbers for the remaining 3,700 old plates, which will all soon be available for collection. Owners with temporary licence plates must replace them before […]

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Officials silent on contingencies for baby formula shortage

Officials silent on contingencies for baby formula shortage

| 24/05/2022 | 45 Comments

(CNS): Government officials have failed to respond to queries from CNS about any contingency plans the health ministry or Health Services Authority may have regarding the potential knock-on effect here in Cayman of the baby formula shortage in the United States. Two local supermarkets have told CNS that they don’t expect the supply issues in […]

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Experts identify long list of Cayman’s climate risks

Experts identify long list of Cayman’s climate risks

| 23/05/2022 | 63 Comments

(CNS): A group of experts working with the Minister of Sustainability and Climate Resiliency to produce a climate change risk assessment has identified a long list of threats to the Cayman Islands. Two UK agencies have drafted an ‘evidence report’ offering what ministry officials said was the most detailed assessment of climate change impacts ever […]

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School outbreak boosts active case numbers

School outbreak boosts active case numbers

| 23/05/2022 | 51 Comments

(CNS): After a reported outbreak of COVID-19 at Cayman Prep on Friday, over 100 students and their family members were locked down over the weekend. The positive tests boosted the number of people in isolation and on Monday Public Health said there were an estimated 1,778 active cases, including 58 on the Sister Islands.

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Crown seeks internet ban in child pornography case

Crown seeks internet ban in child pornography case

| 23/05/2022 | 26 Comments

(CNS): A former employee at the UCCI who was convicted in December of accessing and possessing pornographic images of children is in HMP Northward awaiting sentence while a judge considers the length of time he should serve behind bars and how to ban him from using the internet when he is released.

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Four injured, one critical after Sunday night crash

Four injured, one critical after Sunday night crash

| 23/05/2022 | 19 Comments

(CNS): Police are investigating the cause of a two-vehicle crash on Shamrock Road Sunday night that left one person with life-threatening injuries and another with serious injuries. The RCIPS is appealing for information about the crash, which happened at about 10:20pm in the Spotts Newlands Road area involving a white Hyundai minivan with a sole […]

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Monkeypox on local radar but no Caribbean cases

Monkeypox on local radar but no Caribbean cases

| 23/05/2022 | 49 Comments

(CNS): Health officials around the world are increasingly concerned about the number of cases of monkeypox emerging in more countries. The Cayman Islands Public Health Department said it is aware that this smallpox-related virus could appear in the Caribbean, but so far no cases have been reported.

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Tourism stipend phases out with $106M pricetag

Tourism stipend phases out with $106M pricetag

| 23/05/2022 | 73 Comments

(CNS): Today the government issued what is likely to be the penultimate payment to displaced workers who were registered for the tourism stipend programme, as it transitions those who have still not returned to jobs in the sector onto different grants or other support initiatives through the Needs Assessment Unit. By the end of June […]

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