Archive for December, 2024
Police log 88 crashes across first week of Winter Guardian
(CNS): The situation on Cayman’s roads, got worse at the weekend and closed out the first full week of Operation Winter Guardian, the RCIPS’ season anti-crime and road safety campaign, with a total 88 collisions recorded by police in seven days, including 27 just this weekend. Police also arrested 13 drunk drivers over the first […]
Regs posted allowing government to collect new fees
(CNS): Government fees for certain General Registry and Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) services will come into effect in just over one week on 1 January 2025. With the rules relating to the newly passed legislation and the acts all assented to, the new fees that are expected to contribute millions to the public purse […]
CPA spent almost $1M in losing battle with NCC
(CNS): A partial release in response to a freedom of information request relating to the Cayman Islands Government’s battle, through the Central Planning Authority, with its own conservation law and the National Conservation Council revealed that it has cost the public purse close to CI$1 million. The request for information didn’t result in a full […]
Vendor violence and drug sales continue at 7MB
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now arrested a 24-year-old man from Bodden Town the third individual arrested for allegedly selling drugs at Seven Mile Beach this week. He was arrested by officers on foot patrol at the public beach at about 5pm Saturday after they observed him smoking ganja. The man also had a bag containing […]
Police attend 61 crashes in first days of safety campaign
(CNS): During the first five days of Operation Winter Guardian, which began Monday, the police attended 61 crashes and arrested nine drunk drivers. The annual holiday safety campaign has got off to a worrying start as the increasingly poor standard of driving across Cayman appears to get worse by the month. Drivers continue drinking before […]
Bigamist pilot gets greenlight to fly ahead of sentence
(CNS): William Gonzales Bodden, a Caymanian pilot who has pleaded guilty to bigamy, was given permission to travel outside this jurisdiction after the court agreed to a variation in his bail conditions last week. The crown objected because the pilot is based in Florida, where he married a colleague earlier this year despite still being married to his […]
C3 secures legal hearing over CI$1.4M unpaid fees
(CNS): Internet provider Infinity Broadband, known as C3, the only locally-owned communications company in the Cayman Islands, is locked in a legal battle with the utilities regulator, OfReg, over CI$1,400,000 in unpaid fees. C3 believes the government hasn’t properly legislated to collect this coercive revenue from ICT firms, which it contends is a 6% tax […]
Man denies bribery in DVDL $100 bung case
(CNS): Another individual has pleaded not guilty to bribery of a public officer in the Cayman Islands’ largest prosecution brought by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Around 20 people have been charged in the case, almost all of them for allegedly giving an employee of the Department of Vehicle and Drivers’ Licensing a $100 bung for getting […]
Conservation NPO opens shoreline community park
(CNS): Local conservation advocacy non-profit organisation Sustainable Cayman has opened the first of its own community shoreline parks in South Sound. It was officially opened on Tuesday evening when government officials joined members of the public and those who helped to create the space, plant the local flora and help rewild the area. The activists […]
High street banks expected to cut interest rates
(CNS): Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited is the first of Cayman’s high street retail banks to announce an interest rate cut following the reduction in the US Federal Funds Rate yesterday by a quarter point. Butterfield said it will cut its Prime Rate for US and CI dollar lending for residential mortgages, consumer loans and corporate […]
Referendum bill to come to parliament in New Year
(CNS): Deputy Premier Kenneth Bryan, who is spearheading the government’s planned referendum next year, has said the legislation has been drafted, and a bill paving the way for the national poll on General Election Day will go before parliament when it meets on 31 January. At a public meeting on Monday organised by the Association […]
