Archive for February, 2024
Scientists suggest introducing cat 6 hurricane level
(CNS): A group of scientists are suggesting changes to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale to account for stronger storms. As global warming leads to more intense tropical cyclones (TCs), a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests […]
Damaged coastal structures will need repair permits
(CNS): Owners of docks, seawalls and other coastal structures that were damaged this week during the Nor’wester which crossed the Cayman Islands must apply for coastal works permits before they begin repair work. According to a press release from the Ministry of Sustainability and Climate Resiliency, reconstruction work on existing shoreline structures damaged during the […]
Soto dodges conviction in gun possession case
(CNS): Eric Brian Williams Soto (23), who was recently convicted of manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of Harry Elliott (63), was acquitted last month of illegal gun charges in relation to another incident. Defence attorney Keith Myers made a successful application during a jury trial that there was no case to answer because the […]
Cayman cleared from all international black-lists
(CNS): For the first time in several years, the Cayman Islands is not on any international official lists that call the jurisdiction’s role in the global financial system into question. Following Cayman’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force list of countries required to improve their anti-financial crime regimes, Cayman was, on Wednesday, finally officially […]
UK Lord in Cayman for UKOT security conference
(CNS): Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the UK’s Home Office Minister for Public Safety and National Security, is currently visiting the Cayman Islands to attend the third annual Cyber Security Conference for the Overseas Territories, which is being hosted by Governor Jane Owen here in Grand Cayman. Andrew Sharpe, a Conservative member of the House of […]
Minister hedges over tourism recovery for 2024
(CNS): The total number of visitors to the Cayman Islands by air and sea in 2023 easily exceeded the tourism ministry’s original target of 80% of the figures for 2019, the last full year before the borders were closed as a result of the pandemic. Last year, 429,284 stayover visitors arrived, which is 85% of […]
Brac, NWP, GT harbour, Sth Church St pummeled by storm
(CNS): Government officials began ariel damage assessments on Tuesday afternoon in the wake of the winter storm and found that Cayman Brac, North West Point in West Bay, parts of South Church Street and the George Town Harbour had borne the brunt of the huge waves. Pictures and videos of the sea surge and flooding […]
Protestor conditionally discharged for minor offences
(CNS): A local woman who is well known for her attention-grabbing protests over the way she has been treated by medical and other authorities was conditionally discharged on Tuesday in relation to charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest during one of her protests in 2022. Although Lovell Marriott (53) was found guilty of the […]
Caymanians, the people that time forgot
Reckoning2025 writes: I attended the 2024 Economic Forum and came to the conclusion that they were not addressing the 800-pound gorillas in the room while inserting some crumbs for Caymanians. To put the speeches in perspective given by the three politicians, namely the premier, the deputy premier and the minister of tourism and ports, I sum […]
Officer cleared over death of K9 at GT Police Station
(CNS): A police constable charged with animal cruelty following the death in 2022 of Baron, a police dog in the RCIPS K-9 Unit, has been acquitted after a magistrate found he was not to blame. The dog died of heat stroke after he was left outside the George Town Police Station in the sun without […]
Premier U-turns on luxury property duty increase
(CNS): Plans to increase stamp duty on luxury properties appear to have been dropped just a few weeks after it was suggested by Premier Julianna O’Connor-Connolly. The possibility of increasing stamp duty was raised in parliament in the UPM leader’s budget address in December, with the implication that the new government was considering raising the […]
