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Cayman’s flagbearers for Paris Games opener chosen
CNS: At the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris tomorrow, Friday, the Cayman Islands team’s flag bearers will be swimmer Jordan Crooks and sailing contestant Charlotte Webster. The event, which begins at 7:30pm local time (12:30pm in Cayman), takes place on the Seine River with boats for each national delegation. It marks the first time […]
Nepalese emerge as fifth largest group of permit holders
(CNS): At the end of 2018, there were 385 work permit holders in the Cayman Islands from the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, but over the last six years, this number has more than tripled. Updated statistics released by WORC reveal that, as of 1 July, there were 1,245 Nepalese workers here, and they now make […]
Little Cayman fights back over airport plans
(CNS): Residents across Little Cayman and the tourism sector are raising their concerns about plans to construct a new airport and say they will fight the government over this as they believe it will change the island forever and encourage over-development and an influx of people that will negatively impact the pristine marine habitat and […]
New generation of footballers scoop trophies in US Cup
(CNS): One of Cayman’s largest youth football programmes has achieved record success at this year’s Target USA Cup held in Blaine, Minnesota. Academy Sports Club returned from its week-long competition at one of the largest youth football tournaments in the world with one Gold and two Runners-Up trophies. The Club’s U19 boys won the Gold championship, […]
Sea Elephant saga rolls on as ship docks in GT
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has confirmed that the Sea Elephant, an oil tanker that ran aground on Cayman Brac earlier this month, is now docked at George Town. The vessel was anchored offshore last week, but on Friday, it docked at the Jackson Point Terminal to offload its fuel products. It was then expected […]
COVID keeps premier from parliament meeting
(CNS): Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly was not in parliament on Monday and will be absent for the rest of this week’s Fourth Meeting of the 2023/2024 session because she has COVID-19, officials have said. In her absence, Deputy Premier Andre Ebanks will act in her stead, and Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan will act as the deputy […]
JOCC takes $1M in aid and cash to islands hit by Beryl
(CNS): Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly led a sizeable delegation around the region last week to take aid to islands hit by Hurricane Beryl earlier this month. On Tuesday they delivered bout 17,500lbs of aid cargo, worth $100,000, to Grenada and to St Vincent and the Grenadines as well as cheques for $700,000. On Thursday the delegation […]
Ex-DCO sues cops, DPP for malicious prosecution
(CNS): Dalton Errald Watler-Lyons (Dalton Watler), a former deputy chief officer in the tourism ministry, has filed suit against the police commissioner, the director of public prosecutions and the attorney general, as well as a named RCIPS officer and a prosecutor, claiming he was unlawfully investigated, arrested, charged and then prosecuted over allegations that US$30,000 which police […]
Cabinet has selected but not revealed EWA route
(CNS): Based on a draft environmental impact assessment, Cabinet has approved one of at least three route options for the controversial East-West Arterial Road extension considered by the consultants who conducted the EIA. According to a summary of the 9 July Cabinet meeting, the Cayman Islands Government has selected a route from Newlands to Frank […]
Road closed to accommodate George Town project
(CNS): Traffic in the capital is likely to be worse than usual this afternoon as a traffic diversion has been put in place to accommodate more work on the George Town Revitalization Project in the downtown area. The diversion was put in place at 10:30am on Friday, some four hours before officials notified the public, […]
Worldwide IT crash impacts local gov’t systems
(CNS) UPDATED 1pm: A massive technology failure caused chaos around the world Friday as PCs at banks, businesses, flights and hospitals crashed when something went wrong with a security software update. Hundreds of thousands of computers were hit when the cyber-security firm CrowdStrike encountered problems with its software designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from […]
