Archive for August 14th, 2023
COVID vaccine becomes a seasonal shot
(CNS): Local cases of COVID-19 are on the decline and the last batch of Moderna vaccines on-island has expired. Therefore, the Public Health Department will no longer offer the shots on a monthly basis but will instead administer them seasonally, as is the case with the flu vaccines. Officials told CNS that since April, when […]
Gun suspect arrested after two months on the run
(CNS): Christopher Perry Bush (32), who has been on the run for two months, was arrested on Sunday and is currently in police custody. The Bodden Town man was on bail in relation to a firearms charge when he broke his electronic tag and breached his bail conditions in June. Police thanked the public for […]
Police seek witnesses to parking lot fight
(CNS): A man underwent surgery early Sunday morning to treat a serious laceration to his arm that he sustained during a fight outside a bar on Shedden Road in George Town just after midnight. When police officers arrived at the scene, they found the injured man being helped in the parking lot outside the bar […]
Driver badly injured in single-car smash
(CNS): The driver of a black Chevrolet Trax is currently in hospital with serious injuries following a collision with a traffic light pole at the junction of North Sound Road and Shedden Road. At around 2:00am Monday, emergency services were called to the scene of the crash, where people at the location had removed the […]
Mac loses OBE after review by UK committee
(CNS): The royal gong awarded to McKeeva Bush MP in 1997 has been revoked. The former speaker of parliament, who is facing two separate allegations of sexual abuse, claimed in a social media post that he had written to the UK Honours Forfeiture Committee to surrender his OBE. However, CNS reported in October last year […]
Court shows mercy to first time violent offender
(CNS): Jose Yamany Carter-Ramirez (25), who stabbed another man in the chest outside a George Town bar in December last year, was sentenced to just 15 months in jail after the court partially suspended a 23-month sentence. Carter-Ramirez, from West Bay, stabbed the victim after his girlfriend accused the man of an assault while they […]
CIG records half-year surplus of $166M
(CNS): Despite spending some $15 million more than expected in the budget by the halfway point of this year government has maintained an overall healthy surplus. According to the latest unaudited financial report to the end of June, the public purse has a CI$166.2 million surplus, $22.7 million more than budgeted for the first six […]
