Archive for July, 2022
Audit firm count Friday out for the summer
(CNS): Grant Thornton Cayman Islands has given all of its staff the option to take every Friday off throughout July and August. Given that many auditors and financial service professionals experience burnout after the busy period, the firm said in a press release announcing this summer’s four-day working week that it wanted to ensure its […]
Weather radar fixed but more work needed
(CNS): Six weeks into this year’s storm season, the Cayman Islands National Weather Service (CINWS) has said that the Kearney Gomez Doppler Radar has been fixed but work to repair the leaking dome and install a dehumidifier is still underway. Nevertheless, the actual radar is back online and live images are now available on the […]
New variants emerge as COVID cases increase
(CNS): The latest weekly analysis of COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands shows an increase in cases, even with a decline in testing, but also the emergence of Omicron BA.5 and the sub-lineage BE.1. Public Health Department officials have again urged people with symptoms of the virus to get a PCR test so that they can […]
Suspect tops Jamaica’s most wanted list
(CNS): The man who was rounded up by the RCIPS last Friday is considered St Catherine’s most wanted criminal, according to the Jamaican police. Rudolph Almando Shaw (30), a.k.a. “Boxer” or “Boxa”, was arrested in Grand Cayman after he fled Jamaica aboard a canoe. He was tracked down in George Town with the help of […]
Bryan sorry for video, promises to try harder
(CNS): Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan, the MP for George Town Central, has apologised for a video he posted on social media last weekend promoting his wife’s real state business. Acknowledging that he “got this wrong”, he accepted that it was a breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct and said he fully supports the code […]
Prison service marks progress in rehabilitation efforts
(CNS): Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands Prison Service (HMCIPS) has been criticised for many years for its revolving door, partly due to a fundamental lack of investment in proper rehabilitation programmes. However, recent steps to change that include a partnership with the University of the West Indies to deliver education and skills training to inmates.
Parliament Building celebrates 50th ‘birthday’
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly Building officially opened on 31 July 1972 by then-Governor Kenneth Roy Crook. Now known as the Parliament Building, its 50th ‘birthday’ will be marked with a programme of entertainment next Thursday evening, 21 July. The public party on the steps of the building and on Fort Street will take […]
Gunman was returning fire, says lawyer
(CNS): Mikkyle Brandon Leslie (36) could be facing more than a decade behind bars over a loaded gun that he fired outside a bar in George Town in February 2020. But at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, his defence attorney told the court that Leslie had come under fire before he used the gun, which […]
Protections are buffering Little Cayman reefs from threats
(CNS): Little Cayman’s coral reefs are subject to the same pressures of climate change and disease as those around the world, but the latest survey of the reefs by the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) shows that local marine protections have provided a buffer from the impact of those threats. Fish populations around the island […]
CBC officer arrested over rape allegation
(CNS): A 30-year-old man from Bodden Town who works for Customs and Border Control was arrested last month on suspicion of rape, which was announced last week by officials from CBC. The police have since confirmed that he was arrested on 29 June in connection the allegation that on 20 June he raped a woman […]
Local lawyer promoted to senior post in AG chambers
(CNS): Marilyn Brandt has become the first Caymanian attorney to be appointed to the position of deputy solicitor general in the Portfolio of Legal Affairs. Brandt has 14 years experience as a practising public sector attorney, having begun her career as an articled clerk within the Attorney General’s Chambers before being called to the Cayman […]
