Archive for July 4th, 2023
Weekend burglars take booze, tools and a leaf blower
(CNS): Two bars and a warehouse were burgled over the weekend, police said Tuesday, but did not indicate if they thought the same criminals were involved. Burglars broke into a small storage room at a waterfront bar on South Church Street and took several cases of beverages and a leaf blower. And at a beach […]
Governor had power to pass civil partnership act
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a local Christian group challenging the governor’s power to enact the Civil Partnership Act in 2020 after parliament voted down a government bill. The appeal court, which had already directed the government to deal with the lack of legislation to uphold LGBT […]
Home-school numbers climb with lack of school spaces
(CNS): At the end of this academic year, 141 students were registered in home-school programmes, according to the Department of Education Services, but numerous social media posts suggest that one of the main reasons is that parents are struggling to find places for their children in local schools, both public and private. Over 100 of […]
Mac hits back at ‘ineffective’ opposition leader
(CNS): McKeeva Bush is threatening to expose politicians that he claims have beaten women, as he berated the opposition leader and accused the women he has allegedly assaulted of exaggerating. After Roy McTaggart’s call for the West Bay MP to be removed from the Public Accounts Committee, Bush said McTaggart was an “ineffective, unreliable” leader […]
