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‘Fierce advocate’ leaving after eight years at OAG helm
(CNS): After eight years as auditor general of the Cayman Islands, Sue Winspear will be stepping down from the post before the end of the year. Governor Jane Owen described the first woman to take on the challenging role as “a fierce advocate” who held people to account over the expenditure of public cash. Winspear […]
Tortuga robber fails to get prison term cut
(CNS): Richard Edward Nash (28), who was convicted of armed robbery at the Tortuga liquor store in 2020 and sentenced to twelve years and ten months, has failed to get that time reduced. In a ruling published Friday, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal said it didn’t consider the sentence excessive, “let alone manifestly excessive”, […]
Employee admits stealing $42k from boss
(CNS): A Caymanian woman who worked for a floor covering company has admitted stealing $42,000 from her former employer, Randolph Stanford, using over a dozen forged cheques between November 2021 and March 2022. Samantha Angella McLaughlin has pleaded guilty to 16 charges of theft and forgery and has been bailed until an expected sentencing hearing […]
Brac man admits using fake note at liquor shop
(CNS): Tyler Foster Scott from Cayman Brac pleaded guilty to one count of uttering a forged note when he appeared in court on Friday via Zoom from a treatment centre on Grand Cayman. Scott admitted using a counterfeit $100 bill at Blackbeard’s liquor store in September 2022. Scott’s sentencing hearing was postponed for three months […]
$8.5M building will house workers on Brac Bluff
.. (CNS): The Cayman Islands Government is footing the bill for a 38-suite block on Cayman Brac to house the construction workers who will build the proposed $50 million high school on the Bluff. The CIG announced the start of this CI$8.5 million project last week, which is being paid for by the public purse. […]
Serial burglars accused of restaurant break-ins
(CNS): Three men, described by the police as recidivist offenders with drug and alcohol dependency problems, were arrested last week in connection with three different commercial burglaries at restaurants in George Town over the last few weeks. Two have been charged with a burglary at a restaurant on South Church Street on 12 May, and […]
Welcome was ‘a bit angry’ when he kicked dying man
(CNS): Bryan Roy Welcome (42) admitted there was “a little bit of anger” when he kicked Omar Ryan (34), a former grocery business associate, as he lay dying in a parking lot after Welcome ran him down, which he claimed was self-defence. Welcome has been charged with the murder of Ryan, who died from injuries […]
Defendants convicted in $500k bank burglary
(CNS): David Samuel Bodden, Statan Omar Clarke and Elton David Webster have been found guilty of burglary in relation to more than half a million dollars stolen from the Royal Bank of Canada in George Town almost eight years ago. Eliza Webster was found guilty of one count of possession of criminal property in relation […]
PAT backs DCB’s refusal for ‘offshore’ columbarium
(CNS): Plans by landowners to create a columbarium on Cayman Brac with three 12-foot walls to store the ashes of dead foreign rich people have been thwarted by the Planning Appeals Tribunal on the Sister Islands after it upheld the decision by the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board (DCB) to refuse planning […]
Sea Cadets acquire vessel for training
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Cadet Corps’ (CICC) maritime detachment, known as the Sea Cadets, has acquired a motor vessel, purchased for CI$75,000, where the young sailors will now train. Named in honour of the late Gwendolyn Bush, a Caymanian seafaring matriarch, the MV Miss Gwen was commissioned at a formal ceremony at the Cayman Islands […]
PPM pushes for cost details of CAL’s Barbados route
(CNS): Following the cancellation of Cayman Airways’ Grand Cayman to Barbados flights, the PPM is calling on the UPM government to provide a detailed report on any financial losses the airline incurred as a result of this short-lived route. In an audio statement, Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart called for “transparency regarding the costs associated with […]
