Archive for October, 2023
Owen ‘not worried’ about upcoming budget
(CNS): Governor Jane Owen has dismissed concerns that the UK might step in to oversee public finances after the PACT Government presents its last budget for this administration next month. Six months after taking up her post, Britain’s representative in the Cayman Islands told CNS that she is “not worried” at this stage about the […]
Over 50 acres of primary habitat under threat
(CNS): An application for a 184-lot subdivision, including 180 residential lots and a road parcel, puts as much as 50 acres of rare pristine habitat at risk in East End, the DoE has warned. The application, due to be heard by the Central Planning Authority today (Wednesday), also poses a risk to the water lens […]
Cops on the hunt for robber with broken arm
(CNS): A robber wearing a blue cast on his right arm and bright coloured clothes made off with an undisclosed quantity of cash after robbing a convenience store on Town Hall Road in West Bay just after 12:45am on Tuesday. The man entered the 24-hour local shop by the four-way stop and demanded money from […]
Parliament undergoing comparative review by CPA
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Parliament is going through benchmark assessment this week with two representatives from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. The review is a voluntary, comparative initiative that will enable officials here to see how the local legislature compares with others around the world, what Cayman is getting right and where it can do better, […]
Work to begin on new CI$6M weather centre
(CNS): More than three years after the Cayman Islands National Weather Service (CINWS) received planning permission to construct a multi-million-dollar weather facility off Crewe Road on land by the RCIPS traffic unit, government officials broke ground last week. The contract for the purpose-built centre, worth just over CI$6 million, was secured by Build Cayman Limited […]
Jurors visit scene of gambling shop killing
(CNS): Grand Court spilled out onto the streets of George Town on Monday when the twelve men and women sitting as jurors in the case against Justin Kyle Jackson and Eric Brian Williams Soto for the murder of Harry Elliott last summer visited the scene of the crime. Justice Cheryll Richards, the lawyers, court officials […]
Migrants evacuated during fire at Fairbanks centre
(CNS): Police are investigating a fire at the Customs and Border Control Detention Centre at Fairbanks on Monday. CBC said it started at about 1:00pm and the eight migrants housed there were evacuated from the building while the Cayman Islands Fire Service extinguished the blaze.
Man’s body pulled from harbour late Saturday night
(CNS): The RCIPS is in the process of identifying the body of a man that was recovered from George Town Harbour late Saturday night. Staff at the Port Authority contacted the 911 call centre to report what appeared to be a person in the water. Police and fire officers attended the location and conducted a search, during […]
Man assaulted on his doorstep by acquaintance
(CNS): Police are investigating a report of an assault right outside the victim’s home in the early hours of Thursday morning at an address off Hirst Road, Bodden Town. The man had just returned to his residence when he was confronted outside by a man he knew. The victim fled inside his house, but as he […]
Civil servant seeks $750k for minister’s crude joke
(CNS): Bernie Bush, the minister for youth, sports and culture, has issued a written apology to a well-known female public servant over a dirty joke he made to her, which she has said left her shocked and upset. Despite the written apology, the woman is seeking CI$750,000 in financial compensation from the government over the […]
Elliott murder was ‘robbery gone wrong’ says crown
(CNS): Candia James-Malcolm, the deputy director of public prosecutions, told a jury that Harry Elliott (63), a former prison officer who was gunned down at a numbers shop in George Town on 25 April 2022, was murdered during “a robbery gone horribly wrong”. As she opened the crown’s case against Justin Kyle Jackson and Eric […]
