Archive for May 5th, 2023
Esso gas station robbed at gunpoint
(CNS): Police have opened yet another robbery investigation following an armed stick-up at the Esso gas station on Shamrock Road at around 3:20 on Friday morning. Two masked men entered the store, brandished a gun and demanded cash from the registers. They took off with an undisclosed sum of money on foot, appearing to head […]
Bus driver fights off would-be robbers
(CNS): A bus driver was treated by EMS personnel on Wednesday night for a cut to his face that he received fighting off two men who tried to rob him on Mount Pleasant Road in the vicinity of Mount Close. The driver was dropping off his last passengers in West Bay around 8pm, but as […]
Murder case opens after man stabbed on GT street
(CNS) A 37-year-old man from George Town was killed in the early hours of Friday morning and another man was injured following a stabbing on Shedden Road, east of the intersection with Main Street across the road from MacDonald’s restaurant. Police and emergency services arrived around 2am and found a man who was unresponsive.
Woman fired from Pines, rights breached
(CNS): A Caymanian woman who was sacked from the Pines Retirement Home for being unvaccinated for COVID-19 and accused of killing a resident by infecting them with the SARS-CoV-2 virus has won a partial legal victory in the courts. The court found that the Labour Act is incompatible with the Bill of Rights because anyone […]
Civil servants could get 13% raise over 3 years
(CNS): Chris Saunders (BTW), now an independent MP who sits on the opposition benches, managed to steer through his private member’s motion calling for a significant increase in government workers’ wages last week, something he had sought to support in the budget preparations before he lost his job as finance minister. The government agreed to […]
Hill appeals 2020 conviction over podcast
(CNS): Sandra Hill, the host of Cayman Marl Road, is defending herself in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal against a conviction in 2020 for abusing and harassing on an ICT network in connection with a podcast in which she accused local businessman Matthew Leslie of being a sexual predator. This was the first time […]
