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New Year election roll grows by just over 1.2%
(CNS): The latest register of electors, which was published on the Elections Office website on New Year’s Day, has increased by just 300 votes or around 1.2% compared to the October register. The electoral roll now stands at 23,829 people. However, as the clock ticks on the 15 January deadline for eligible voters to register […]
Nine Cubans sent back to Havana under speedy scheme
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government returned a second group of Cuban migrants to Havana last month under revised legislation rolled out in 2023 that enables the CIG to process asylum claims very quickly and deport almost all of those who have landed in Cayman after breaking their intended journeys to Central America.
Police offer few details over man’s mysterious death
(CNS): Police have said all possible lines of enquiry are being pursued in order to ascertain the circumstances that led to the death of a man found in George Town last week. The body of an unidentified 56-year-old man from Bodden Town was found at around 7:30 on the morning of New Year’s Eve, Tuesday […]
2024 pushes 2023 off top spot for hottest year on record
(CNS): Earth has now endured a decade of record-breaking heat after 2024 knocked 2023 off the top spot as the hottest year on record. The rapidly rising heat over the last ten years has been fueled by man’s behaviour and reached the point where scientists are now saying that the hope of restricting the rise […]
Seven Mile Beach bar closes blaming eroded beach
(CNS): Coral Beach bar, situated on Dart-owned land in the heart of Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach, will close at the end of this month, owners have said, largely as a result of the significant beach erosion in the area. Since the owners, Crown Jewel, leased the site from the Dart Group, the bar has […]
Election office extends opening hours for voter registration
(CNS): Officials from the election office have said its hours of operation will be extended over the coming days until the deadline for voters to register on 15 January. There are still thousands of people in Cayman who are eligible to vote who have not yet chosen to sign up to exercise their democratic rights […]
Work plods along to ‘revitalize’ George Town
(CNS): The planning ministry is claiming to have made progress on Phase Two of the George Town Revitalization Initiative, a project that has been ongoing for years and has led to the closure of various roads in the capital as each element of the work has been rolled out. Throughout the height of the tourist […]
Conservationists warn of draft bill’s devastating impacts
(CNS): The draft national conservation amendment bill, published by the lame-duck UPM government on New Year’s Eve, would, if passed fundamentally alter critical environmental protections that safeguard Cayman’s natural resources and biodiversity with devastating consequences, local conservationists have warned. Sustainable Cayman the leading local advocacy group in the battle to protect the environment said the […]
Empty mystery canoe grounded on East End reef
(CNS): Police have opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the grounding of a ‘canoe’ on the reef off the Queens Highway in East End in the early morning of 2 January. According to an RCIPS press release a search and rescue operation was launched after the emergency services including the Cayman Islands Coast Guard […]
PPM won’t help UPM with controversial changes to NCA
(CNS): A spokesperson for the PPM has told CNS the party is standing by their position that the current minority government, which they see as merely a caretaker administration, should not be bringing any contentious pieces of legislation to parliament ahead of the election. While the Progressives support both the idea of a cruise port […]
UPM posts draft bill to gut conservation act
(CNS): In a shocking, but not surprising move the minority UPM administration posted a draft amendment bill minutes before noon on New Years Eve that would, if passed, make dramatic changes to one of the country’s most important pieces of legislation when it comes to the future of the Cayman Islands and the type of […]
