Archive for November 15th, 2024
Government to hold NiCE Christmas clean-up
(CNS): Unemployed Caymanians looking to earn some money for the holidays are being invited to register for this year’s Christmas clean-up. The Ministry of Planning has announced the return of the National Community Enhancement Project (NiCE Programme), offering 20 days of temporary work for local people in December and January.
ACC arrests West Bay woman in undisclosed probe
(CNS): Investigators from the Anti-Corruption Commission arrested a 34-year-old woman from West Ba on Thursday for two money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act. However, in keeping with the ACC’s tight-lipped approach to the work it does and the arrests it makes, officials have given no details of the investigation, the alleged offence […]
Woman admits killing friend in early morning crash
(CNS): Ygnacia Rafaelina Francisco Payero pleaded guilty on Friday to killing her friend, Aleiny Reve Villegas (20), a Cuban national residing in Cayman, in an early morning crash on 8 August 2022. Payero, who is also a Cuban national, was injured in the collision, which happened at 3:40am on Eastern Avenue near the Shedden Road […]
7MB erosion now a priority for UPM, says minister
(CNS): Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan has revealed that the minority UPM government is working on a public-private partnership of some kind to undertake an undefined replenishment project to address what he said was the national emergency of erosion on Seven Mile Beach.
Two men jailed over illegal automatic guns and drugs
(CNS): Two local men in unrelated cases were jailed this week after admitting to possession of illegal guns modified into automatic weapons and significant quantities of drugs. Jay Calvert Ebanks (31), a local boat captain from Savannah, was given eight years and nine months for possession of a gun converted from a semi-automatic to a […]
Bryan pressing ahead with referendum bill
(CNS): Now that the date for the 2025 General Election has been set for 30 April, the UPM minority government has just over three months before parliament is prorogued and the official election campaign begins, leaving them very little time to steer through the catalogue of legislation and policies the beleaguered coalition has promised voters, […]
MPs reveal frustrations over UPM’s internal conflicts
(CNS): Former ministers André Ebanks, Katherine Ebanks-Wilks and Sabrina Turner and former Parliamentary Secretary Heather Bodden, who all resigned from the UPM last month citing serious mismanagement of Caucus and Cabinet, held a public meeting Wednesday where they revealed more about what drove them out of the party.
