Archive for 2025
OAG releases redacted version of leaked ReGen report
(CNS): Auditor General Sue Winspear has released a redacted version of a report conducted in 2021 examining the Cayman Islands Government’s failed ReGen deal with a Dart Consortium to tackle the country’s rubbish. However, an unredacted version of the report was leaked last summer, soon after the CIG announced it was pulling out of the […]
Cop crashes patrol car into a wall while answering call
(CNS): The RCIPS Traffic and Roads Policing Unit is investigating one of its own after an officer driving a marked police service vehicle crashed into a wall on Bodden Road at around 1:15pm on Sunday. Police did not give an exact location of the single-vehicle collision, but social media footage indicates that it happened near […]
Man receives stomach wound in barroom stabbing
(CNS): A man was stabbed in the stomach outside a bar on Eastern Avenue close to the Dolphin Centre in George Town in the early hours of Monday morning, 27 January. Police were called out to the location at about 2:30am yesterday after a report was made of a man being armed with a machete […]
Burglars make off with large electronic hauls
(CNS): Two electronic stores in George Town were broken into last week, and thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of goods. Police said the first commercial burglary was reported to them at about 9:40am on Monday by a store on Eastern Avenue. The burglars broke in through the front door and stole dozens of […]
Security streamlined at Brac airport to reduce congestion
(CNS): A new security checkpoint at the Charles Kirkconnell International Airport (CKIA) on Cayman Brac designed to reduce congestion is now up and running, according to the Cayman Islands Airport Authority. This upgraded facility will streamline passenger flow through the Central Security Search area, which will address the congestion at the security screening point, the […]
Police arrest three young drivers for excessive speed
(CNS): Three drivers aged 22 and under were stopped by police on Sunday, 22 January, for excessive speeding, in one case for driving under the influence. One young woman caught doing 64mph in a 25mph zone could lose her license. Another is facing a long list of charges after police stopped her doing 62mph in a […]
Over 1,600 new voters register ahead of April election
(CNS): The Elections Office is working on the validation process for more than 1,600 people who registered to vote between the beginning of October and 15 January. They are also working on 900 more change forms, many relating to constituency changes. The office has so far processed around 2,500 forms but said there are a […]
Lame-duck Cabinet keeps spending public cash
(CNS): The minority UPM government has shown no signs of letting up on critical decision-making, such as spending and policy, including the drafting of various amendment bills that may not pass, given that the administration lost its mandate to govern back in October. The lame-duck Cabinet, comprising just five ministers, had two meetings in January, […]
CCMI alarmed by UPM attack on conservation
(CNS): The Central Caribbean Marine Institute, a non-profit conservation and research facility on Little Cayman, has said the proposed changes to the National Conservation Act could have “catastrophic and destructive implications for the environment”. CCMI said in a release that the amendment bill paves the way for Cabinet “to make irresponsible decisions regarding environmental health […]
Absence of data undermines proposal for cruise vote
(CNS): All relevant information and data on the plans, location, costs and environmental impacts relating to any proposed cruise berthing facility should be released to the public before the country is asked to vote on such a project, according to local activist group Cruise Port Referendum (CPR) Cayman, which disputes the need for such facilities. […]
Drunk driver hits pedestrian after crash on Hirst Road
(CNS): A 41-year-old man from George Town was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Wednesday evening after he knocked down a pedestrian following a crash with another vehicle on Hirst Road in Newlands near the intersection of Rex Crighton Boulevard. The other driver, who fled the scene, was later located and arrested.
