Archive for December 12th, 2024

West Bay 4-way stop grocery shop robbed again
(CNS): The 24-hour convenience store located at the junction of West Church Street and Town Hall Road by the four-way stop in West Bay has been robbed again. The shop was held up by a man armed with a gun at about 5:20am on Thursday, but police have already arrested a suspect. A 34-year-old man […]

Driver dies in hospital 17 days after crash
(CNS): Police have confirmed that the man involved in a serious two-vehicle collision at the junction of Goring Avenue and Walkers Road in George Town on 24 November died in hospital yesterday, 11 December, over two weeks after the crash took place. The victim was Caymanian Harry Swaby (47), who was admitted to the George […]

Man charged with raping woman in parked car
(CNS): Police have charged a 31-year-old man from George Town with rape. The man appeared in court today and was remanded in custody. The charges stem from a report of a sexual assault that took place around midnight on Tuesday in a parked car at Seven Mile Shops plaza on the West Bay Road, north […]

Feeding the addiction
Nick Joseph writes: Our economy, or at least aspects of it, operates on cheap labour. Wages are sometimes derisory and do not reflect basic economic principles where — other things equal — shortage drives up price. Wages, in some cases, are purely an artificial construct founded upon a nearly unlimited supply of labour. Much of […]