Archive for August, 2023
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(CNS): The royal gong awarded to McKeeva Bush MP in 1997 has been revoked.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 […]
Neighbour jailed after setting jeep ablaze
(CNS): A Bodden Town man who has a volatile relationship with his neighbour was sentenced on Friday to eleven months in jail for arson after he set the man’s jeep on fire earlier this year. Fernando Lopez Thompson (45) was also handed a second concurrent 11-month sentence for harassment against the same neighbour following threats […]
New members join NCC while CPA reappointed
(CNS): The two groups of people with the power to shape the protection of the Cayman Islands’ natural resources over the remainder of this current administration were appointed by Cabinet last week. Ian Pairaudeau has been reappointed as chairperson of the Central Planning Authority (CPA) and Stuart Mailer, the former environmental programmes manager at the […]
Cuban migrants give up on journey in Gun Bay
(CNS): A group of ten Cuban men who passed through Cayman Brac waters early Wednesday morning but had pressed on with their journey are now in the custody of Customs and Border Control on Grand Cayman. The group gave up on their voyage on Thursday when they came ashore in Gun Bay, East End, sometime […]
Passenger mixing causes security alert at airport
(CNS): Officials had to handle a security problem at Owen Roberts International Airport on Thursday when passengers on a flight bound for Jamaica but diverted to Cayman mixed with other outgoing passengers in the departure hall. The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) said the airline was diverted to Grand Cayman after the runway in Montego […]
Police charge suspect over car break-ins
(CNS): A 47-year-old man from George Town, who police believe is responsible for a recent spate of break-ins and thefts from vehicles in the capital, has been charged following his arrest on Saturday. The man, who appeared in court Monday, was charged with just one offence, but further charges are being investigated. He has since […]
Policy falls short of a legal right to green energy
(CNS): The draft updated National Energy Policy includes changes promoting more equitable access to green energy sources. But officials have said the proposed new implementation plan only considers consumers’ right to access the national grid but doesn’t mandate it. Fourteen years after the CORE programme began, only 3.5% of local power comes from renewables, and […]
