Archive for August, 2024
Local gangsters show off 3D-printed guns on YouTube
(CNS): A group of local gangsters have been featured in a YouTube video showing off guns that they say had been made using a 3D printer. The video was made by “Mr Triper”, who hails from Eastern Europe and is known as an extreme traveller. He makes travel videos that show what he describes as […]
$45.5M spent since 2021 buying land for crown
(CNS): Since coming to office in 2021, the Cayman Islands Government, initially PACT and then UPM, has spent at least CI$45.5 million on acquiring more than 60 pieces of land, most of which were bought over the last 18 months. CI$12 million has been spent in Cayman Brac alone, over $2.1 million on Scranton Park […]
WORC moves back to renovated office at Apollo House
(CNS): The Customer Care unit at the government’s labour force and immigration agency WORC will move back to its previous offices at Apollo House, 87 Mary Street, George Town, next Monday, 2 September. To facilitate the move to the newly renovated facility the office will close at 1:00pm on Friday. Normal hours of operation will […]
Woman’s bag snatched by masked men in West Bay
(CNS): Police have opened an investigation into a street robbery in West Bay early Saturday morning. A woman who was waiting at the intersection of Neon Close and Mount Pleasant Road at around 5:00am was approached by two men whose faces were covered with t-shirts. They grabbed and threatened her and then snatched her handbag, […]
Wanted man calls into talk show from Jamaica
(CNS): A man claiming to be Shavan Claude Brown (28), who is wanted by the RCIPS in connection with a drug boat found last week on Cayman Brac, called into a local talk show on Monday from Jamaica, claiming that he was not on the island at the time the boat was seized. On Sunday, […]
Cruise vote vital, Chamber says, while raising concerns
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce believes the local business community, especially retailers, has a vested interest in the outcome of the referendum on a cruise port that the government is proposing to hold later this year, given its potential economic impact. But while the business advocacy group believes such a vote is vital, […]
GDP grows by 4.2%, nears CI$71k per capita in 2023
(CNS): The Cayman Islands’ real gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by an estimated rate of 4.2% last year, a slight decline from the growth of 5.2% in 2022. The nominal GDP per capita income was estimated at $70,985 for 2023 even though, according to the last Labour Force Survey, well over 60% of the working […]
2024 Inflation rate slows but COL still crippling families
(CNS): In the second quarter of 2024, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 132.7, which is 1.7% more than the second quarter of 2023, with eight out of the twelve divisions recording higher price indices. And while the rate of inflation may be slowing, given the historic highs over the last few years and the […]
Mother defends man convicted of raping her daughter
(CNS): Noel Baker (50) was found guilty last week of raping a pre-teen girl on at least five occasions between March and September, but despite the verdict, the mother of the child has taken to social media to defend the rapist and accuse her daughter of lying. The woman cannot legally be identified by the […]
UPM divided over additional referendum questions
(CNS): Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan still supports adding more topics to the referendum that the UPM government has said it is going to hold before the end of the year on the question of cruise berthing facilities. Speaking on Radio Cayman, Bryan, who acknowledged that he is known in some circles as “Referendum Man”, said […]
23 displaced by generator fire in Fern Circle
(CNS): A fire that originated from a generator at a tenement yard on Fern Circle, off Fairbanks Road in George Town, last Monday, 19 August, resulted in the displacement of 23 individuals after the planning department condemned the property, according to the Cayman Islands Red Cross, which opened its shelter that evening to provide assistance […]
