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Child and two adults injured in three car pile-up
(CNS): Just one day after the police launched their Christmas safety campaign they were on the scene of yet another major collision on Grand Cayman’s roads involving three vehicles that may have been caused by drivers racing each other. The crash took place on Bodden Town Road in the Midland Acres area at about 10:10 […]
UPM in mystery talks to swap Barkers land with Dart
(CNS) UPDATED: The government has issued a brief statement about the approval of a mystery Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the islands’ largest land owner Dart Enterprises Limited. The deputy governor has now confirmed to CNS that talks, with a view to swapping land in the area to create a national park, are at the […]
New acts advance social development
(CNS): Parliament adjourned on a relative high note, Monday, after government steered through a collection of bills advancing Cayman’s social development safety net. The amendment bills were largely the work of the former minister, Andrè Ebanks (WBS) and deal with improvements to child safeguarding and protecting the elderly.
Recycling still stalled as depot returns to Foster’s
(CNS): The department of environmental health has relocated the West Bay recycling depot back to Foster’s Republix so shoppers no longer have to make an extra trip to the Ed Bush Stadium site which will now close. But it remains one of only nine locations where the public must make the effort to sort and […]
Voter drive underway as deadline looms
(CNS): The Elections Office is hosting a series of voter registration drives across multiple locations in the lead-up to the voter registration deadline on 15 January. In order to vote on Wednesday 30 April in the General Election and what could be a referendum on cruise facilities, ganja and gambling qualified potential voters need to […]
Pro-Caymanian motions pass but 2% tax rejected
(CNS): Four private members motions designed to protect local people from a catalog of social problems that have emerged in Cayman over the last two or more decades were steered through parliament last week but MPs voted against a 2% property tax on foreign owners to finance a healthcare fund for children and seniors. The […]
Boat captain rescues loggerhead turtle tangled in buoys
(CNS): The department of the environment has confirmed that an endangered loggerhead turtle that was entangled in buoy markers over the weekend has been found and freed by Captain Hilton of Red Sail Sports who spotted the turtle following the DOE’s SOS message on Sunday and was able to approach it and cut it free.
Safety campaign aimed at deterring crime & crashes
(CNS): The RCIPS has launched its 2024 Holiday Safety Operation “Winter Guardian” with the aim of deterring crime and cut the worryingly high collisions on the roads. Police will intensify road enforcement operations and increase community foot and high visibility mobile patrols across the Islands.
Fire under investigation at centre holding migrants
(CNS) UPDATED: The Cayman Islands Fire Service (CIFS) has opened an investigation into a fire at the Bodden Twon Civic Centre, where Cuban migrants are being housed, that ignited on Saturday night at about 8:30pm. No one was hurt as a result of the blaze but no details have been released about the level of […]
Gangster brother ‘assassins’ to remain in UK jails
(CNS): Caymanian gangster, brothers Osbourne Douglas(38) and Justin Ramoon(34) will remain in British jails for the foreseeable future after losing the latest leg of a long and winding legal fight to serve their life-sentences for murder back in Cayman. The brothers are serving minimum terms of over thirty years for what was described as the […]
Man arrives at hospital with multiple chop wounds
(CNS): police have opened an investigation into how a man who arrived at the hospital in George Town on Saturday evening at about 6:10 sustained multiple serious wounds to his body. The man had several severe lacerations and his last known location was believed to be a restaurant off Eastern Avenue in George Town. The […]
