Archive for January, 2023
Local women admit selling lottery tickets
(CNS): Four women who appeared in Grand Court Friday all admitted that they had sold lottery tickets. The women, who have been charged under the gambling law, were caught selling the tickets near Archie’s Bar bar on Shedden Road, George Town, during a police bust in March last year. The women, aged between 19 and […]
CAL battles flat tyre and med emergency in one day
(CNS): Cayman Airways Express maintenance crews on Grand Cayman acted quickly on Friday after a plane coming from Little Cayman experienced “a tyre deflation on landing”, the airline said. With the plane disabled on the runway, the crews repaired the tyre as quickly as possible and the aircraft arrived at the gate within 25 minutes […]
McKeeva Bush admitted to Health City with chest pain
(CNS): McKeeva Bush MP (WBW), was admitted to Health City in East End on Monday morning with chest pains. In a statement, the veteran politician and Father of the House revealed that for the past few weeks he had not been feeling well but had prioritised the care of his wife. But after attending the […]
Local man denies killing two in drive-by shooting
(CNS): Wayne Bellafonte Jr (31) has denied killing Mark Andre Ebanks (36) and Eldon Charles Walton (55) in a drive-by shooting in July 2021 in what police have said was a gang-related murder. Bellafonte, from North Side, also denied the attempted murder of a third man who was shot at the time, as well as the possession of […]
Invasive species: The Rest of the Story
A Cayman Bracker writes: Of late, cats have become the convenient fall guys for the dangerous decline in the booby bird population on Cayman Brac. But we of the island who possess knowledge of the history of the island know better. The most significant threat to the birds’ survival comes from the activities of another […]
Feral cat cull underway near booby bird nests on Brac
(CNS): In response to the number of brown booby birds that have been killed recently on the southwest shoreline of Cayman Brac, the feral cat and rodent cull that began last week around the Lighthouse area on the Bluff in the eastern end of the island will be expanded to include this high-density pocket of […]
CoP admits failure to enforce gambling law
(CNS): Police Commissioner Derek Byrne has admitted that law enforcement has not been doing enough to address the escalating problem of gambling, which he said is both fuelling and directly linked to other crimes. Byrne said the RCIPS needs to do more, but that community-wide tolerance of illegal gambling and inadequate consequences for anyone who […]
Mangrove education gets €295k cash boost
(CNS): As more and more of the mangrove habitat across the Cayman Islands falls victim to the bulldozer, the Mangrove Education Project received a grant of €295,000 at the end of last year, which will help the long-running project expand and complete its new local school curriculum, the Cayman Islands Coastal Education Guide (CEG), which […]
Police arrest driver after four-car pile up in East End
(CNS): Police are currently investigating a major collision involving four vehicles on Sea View Road, East End, around 4:15pm Wednesday. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured and only two people were taken to hospital, despite the pile-up. They have since been treated and discharged. Following inquiries, police said that a 30-year-old male driver from George […]
Children aboard latest migrant vessel to land in GC
(CNS): Two children whose ages have not been disclosed were among six Cuban migrants that arrived in a boat that came ashore in North Side on Tuesday, 17 January. One boy and one girl were with three adult men and one woman, according to a brief release from Customs and Border Control. Officials confirmed that […]
Samples negative for bird flu after chickens killed
(CNS): The official results from samples sent to a laboratory in the United States from a flock of local chickens were negative for avian influenza (bird flu). After five samples were suspected to have been positive following local tests, the entire flock was euthanised. But the Department of Agriculture has now said that bird flu […]
