Archive for August 5th, 2024

DoA giving eggs to local families over summer months

DoA giving eggs to local families over summer months

| 05/08/2024 | 5 Comments

(CNS): The Department of Agriculture is partnering with local charity Resilience Cayman to support Caymanian families with children by providing fresh local eggs. According to a release from the Ministry of Agriculture about the new initiative, the EggsUp programme launched on 21 July for a three-month pilot period to coincide with the summer break.

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Mother serving ten years over boyfriend’s gun

Mother serving ten years over boyfriend’s gun

| 05/08/2024 | 16 Comments

(CNS): Thalia Ashanti Barnes (25), the mother of a seven-year-old child, was sentenced to ten years in jail last summer for the possession of her boyfriend’s gun. The court found there were no exceptional circumstances relating to her or the crime when she was convicted in December 2022. The details of the case were revealed […]

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CIG made shocking list of errors in $1B waste project

CIG made shocking list of errors in $1B waste project

| 05/08/2024 | 86 Comments

(CNS): From the moment the government began exploring options for a new waste management system, it failed the people of the Cayman Islands with a shocking list of errors on what would have been the most costly infrastructure project embarked on in these islands. A damning leaked report by the Office of the Auditor General […]

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Port OBC: fourfold increase in car imports by 2084

Port OBC: fourfold increase in car imports by 2084

| 05/08/2024 | 27 Comments

(CNS): The team of consultants who are compiling the Outline Business Case for the new cargo dock for Grand Cayman are making the case for the imperative of building one using projections for imports that would see two and a half times more vehicles shipped annually to the Cayman Islands in fifteen years and four […]

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