Archive for March, 2023
Armed robbers strike at woman’s GT home
(CNS): Two armed masked men robbed a woman at gunpoint in her own yard on Friday evening and fired a shot at the scene, proving that one of the firearms was loaded and working. The home invasion took place around 8.30pm on 3 March on Brushy Avenue in George Town. The woman was socialising with […]
UK court rules against closed-door legal hearing
(CNS): Two Caymanian prisoners serving life sentences for murder have won an important legal victory in a fight to serve their sentences at HMP Northward after being transferred without notice to high-security prisons in the UK. The Judicial Committee of the UK’s Privy Council (JCPC), after a historic sitting in the Cayman Islands, has ruled that […]
Consultation begins on Sexual Harassment Bill
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has unveiled the Sexual Harassment Bill, 2023, more than fifteen years after local activists began the campaign for such legislation and government formed a task force to examine the issue. The draft law has been published as a white paper and is open for public consultation until 15 April. This […]
Stalker offers cash to women for sexual favours
(CNS): The police are on the lookout for a man who has been sexually harassing women walking home from work in George Town, offering them money in exchange for sex. The man was said to have approached three different women on three separate occasions in the evenings at around 7pm last month. The three incidents […]
New CI Regiment commander coming from Trinidad
(CNS): Colonel Roger Carter, a career military man from Trinidad and Tobago, has been appointed as the new commanding officer of the Cayman Islands Regiment and is expected to take up the post in April. Carter was selected following an open competitive recruitment process that attracted a broad field of candidates, officials from the governor’s office […]
Cop still on the job despite animal cruelty charges
(CNS): PC Timothy Alexandre Munroe remains on active duty within the uniform services of the RCIPS, a police spokesperson has confirmed. Responding to CNS inquiries, the police did not say why Munroe has not been suspended even though he is currently facing criminal charges. Munroe appeared in court Tuesday and denied the allegations in relation […]
Lawyer accuses family of collusion in murder case
(CNS): The uncles and aunts of Jovin Omar Fuentes (32), who was shot and killed last summer in front of them, were not telling the truth when they gave evidence in the trial of Javon James Dixon (29) and colluded against him even though he was not the gunman, defence lawyer Amelia Fosuhene claimed as […]
CBC pay inequities addressed, says minister
(CNS): Four years after the immigration department and customs merged into the Customs and Border Control Service (CBC), some officers will be getting a pay rise to regularise all staff salaries, which is part of a commitment management had made to resolve the pre-merger salary inequities within the services. Officials said in a press release […]
Court paves the way for costs claim in Doctors Express case
(CNS): Doctors Express is on its way to a significant costs claim as the court has recently ruled that the government’s defence of the clinic’s legal challenge to an unlawful raid of their premises in 2019 was so “hopeless” they should have conceded the case. Justice Robin McMillan said that during the proceedings, instead of […]
Beach blockers in court as PLC clamps down
(CNS): The Public Lands Commission has identified 39 landowners who are blocking access to the beach or shoreline around Cayman and has begun the process of prosecuting those who are not compliant with enforcement notices. In the first cases since the commission was created, several people appeared in court Tuesday in relation to seven locations […]
Survey finds over half of students exposed to violence
(CNS): In addition to drug use by students attending both private and government schools, the full report from the National Drug Council of its 2022 Student Drug Use Survey, which has now been released, found other important data relating to the experiences of teenagers. Among the more disturbing findings, over 55% of students who took […]
