Archive for August, 2022
Six more Cuban migrants arrive on Cayman Brac
(CNS): The second boat in two days carrying Cuban migrants has arrived in Cayman Islands waters. The boat carrying six men arrived in Cayman Brac at about 10:45am today (Tuesday), the Customs and Border Control Service (CBC) reported. The migrants have disembarked and are being processed in accordance with the usual protocols. Another boat arrived […]
Police urge repeat teen runaway to return home
(CNS): Fourteen-year-old Brianna Ebanks was reported missing on Friday, 19 August, and has not returned home since. Police are urging Brianna to return home or contact them or go to a police station immediately. She was last seen at a business on Eastern Avenue in George town on Friday morning but did not attend an […]
Forged CI$100 bank notes still in circulation
(CNS): The RCIPS Financial Crime Investigation Unit has received five reports since June of people attempting to use counterfeit CI$100 notes across the islands. One report was made in Cayman Brac and the other four in Grand Cayman. The police are urging the public to remain on the lookout for forged notes that remain in […]
Burglar who handed himself in jailed for three years
(CNS): A man who called 911 to report his own crime immediately after he broke into a Bodden Town home earlier this year was sentenced on Friday to three years and one month in jail, even though he had left the scene empty-handed. When he made the emergency call to hand himself in, Shimarona Anthony […]
Minister walks back plan to cut cruise numbers
(CNS): The focus of the PACT Government’s cruise policy may have shifted away from cutting back on the number of cruise visitors that were coming to the Cayman Islands by the end of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed the borders. Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan said Friday that he wants to spread guests around the […]
Cuban asylum seekers disappear, one boat arrives
(CNS): Customs and Border Control has confirmed that an unknown number of Cuban migrants have left the jurisdiction. However, more migrants continue to arrive. A vessel carrying four men and one woman landed in East End around 1pm Monday lunchtime. Those five Cubans have disembarked and are being processed in accordance with CBC’s established protocols, […]
DoE staffer first Caymanian to dive the Cayman Trench
(CNS): Sabrina Douglas, assistant geographical information systems (GIS) and field support specialist at the Department of Environment, became the first Caymanian to dive the depths of the Cayman Trench inside Alvin, a specialist submersible, as part of an ocean exploration research project currently underway into this mysterious part of the Atlantic. Douglas is working aboard […]
Suspected drug dealer charged, second man bailed
(CNS): A 49-year-old man has been charged with three counts of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply and remanded in custody, and a 36-year-old man has been released on police bail following their arrest last week. Police conducted a raid last Tuesday, 16 August, at a house in North Sound Estates, Bodden […]
Watson’s sports company partner denies taking cash
(CNS): A football equipment salesman involved in a complex business partnership with Canover Watson between 2013 and 2015 denied wrongfully taking money from the sale of sports equipment or being involved in any of the fraud that Watson is accused of perpetrating on the regional football body, CONCACAF. Shakeel Khawaja, a representative for Forward Sports, […]
Woman denies wounding in beauty salon brawl
(CNS): Aisha Jamilah English pleaded not guilty to wounding on Friday when she appeared in Grand Court in connection with a stabbing at a beauty parlour in March. English, who is from Jamaica, worked at the salon on North Sound Road and is accused of wounding one of her colleagues during an altercation over money. […]
Panton ‘steps on toes’ over mangrove development
(CNS): Premier Wayne Panton will not support development in the Central Mangrove Wetlands, he stated on Friday in the wake of comments made by two Cabinet colleagues that building the East-West Arterial extension would offer opportunities for lower-cost homes in the interior. Deputy Premier Chris Saunders and Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan publicly backed the idea […]
