Archive for June, 2025
RCIPS struggles with recruitment and budget
(CNS): Acting Deputy Governor Gloria McField-Nixon has confirmed that the RCIPS is facing challenges with its current budget, recruitment problems and a rising demand for services amid Cayman’s growing population. She told parliament that while Police Commissioner Kurt Walton is committed to strengthening and enhancing the Community Policing Unit, “several critical resourcing challenges, including funding”, […]
Store robbed yards from police station, two arrested
(CNS): A 30-year-old man from George Town and a 29-year-old from North Side have been arrested on suspicion of robbery following another armed heist at a local store. Police said a convenience shop was robbed just a few strides from the West Bay police Station around 9:30pm on Sunday. A masked man, carrying a machete, […]
SPS timetable amendment ‘fishy’, says PPM
(CNS): Explaining the need to move the delivery of the Strategic Policy Statement, Finance Minister Rolston Anglin offered parliament several reasons on Friday why the NCFC was changing the law to give it and future administrations more time to develop campaign promises into policies in an election year. The bill passed, but without support from […]
JCPC affirms governor’s power in civil partnership case
(CNS): The passage of the Civil Partnership Act by the previous governor, Martyn Roper, in 2020 was constitutional, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London has found, securing the future of the law and the hundreds of partnerships that now exist. The ruling also clarifies the governor’s use of section 81 of the […]
Minimum wage: It’s NOT all about the base
Nick Joseph writes: Until recent press initially confirming that planned increases in the minimum wage for the tourism industry were (for the immediate) on hold, things had been very quiet in relation to minimum wage. The outgoing administration left office without effecting any changes — although the plan was to increase the minimum wage for […]
CIG to roll out $8.75/hour basic wage in New Year
(CNS): The new government will be rolling out the minimum wage as recommended by the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee in a comprehensive 2023 report that was rejected by the former administration. Answering questions in parliament on Friday, Labour Minister Michael Myles said the new basic wage will be implemented from 1 January, and during the […]
Police confirm Joe Bush was victim in latest murder
(CNS): The RCIPS has said the man who was shot and killed inside a West Bay home just off Watercourse Road on Monday morning was Al Martino Bush (49), known in the district as Joe. Two men who were arrested in the wake of the killing have since been bailed pending further investigations, and police […]
Minister says NiCE is a failure as he rejects expansion
(CNS): Labour Minister Michael Myles told parliament yesterday that the National Community Enhancement (NiCE) programme has been a waste of 15 years and that the government could have used the time and resources to create far more meaningful initiatives to get those with genuine barriers to work into full-time jobs.
Jail time suspended in first local ‘revenge porn’ case
(CNS): A local man has been sentenced to around six months in jail, suspended for two years, in the Cayman Islands’ first case of ‘revenge porn’ to reach the court house. Magistrate Kirstyann Gunn was the first member of the judiciary required to sentence anyone for such a conviction after Brandon Alejandro Ledgister admitted posting […]
EWA progress depends on solving fiscal challenges
(CNS): The minister responsible for roads has said the start date for the East-West Arterial Road extension depends on how the government resolves the public finance crisis, as he doesn’t know what funds will be available for the work in the next budget. But Jay Ebanks told Dwayne Seymour, his former Cabinet colleague in the […]
Lawyer to pay $40k for illegal removal of mangroves
(CNS): Bon Crepe Ltd has been fined $30,000 for illegally removing mangroves and other important habitat to create trails on land its owners wanted to develop. In a rare rebuke to any developer breaching the National Conservation Act or planning-related regulations, the company has also been ordered by the Summary Court to pay $10,000 to […]
