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MPs reveal frustrations over UPM’s internal conflicts
(CNS): Former ministers André Ebanks, Katherine Ebanks-Wilks and Sabrina Turner and former Parliamentary Secretary Heather Bodden, who all resigned from the UPM last month citing serious mismanagement of Caucus and Cabinet, held a public meeting Wednesday where they revealed more about what drove them out of the party.
CEC aims to shut down objectors to transformed PAD
(CNS): Cayman Enterprise City (CEC) is hoping to eventually secure planning permission for a new, completely transformed planned area development (PAD) application on a site located off the Linford Pierson Highway in seasonally flooded mangrove forests.
Crown: Jealousy drove police officer to misconduct
(CNS): Prosecutor Earl Pinnock told a jury on Tuesday that Police Sergeant Keren Watson was driven by jealousy when she used her position as a member of the RCIPS to access information about a love rival, which she used to bully and intimidate. As Pinnock, a UK-based attorney, opened the crown’s case against Watson for […]
Tropical system bringing more heavy rain for Cayman
(CNS): The Cayman Islands National Weather Service (CINWS) said the low-pressure system currently brewing in the Caribbean Sea southeast of Jamaica, which has been designated Tropical Cyclone 19, could bring rain to the Cayman Islands as soon as this evening (Wednesday). The wet weather may persist into early next week as the system remains in […]
Cayman freezes US$8.35B of assets under Russian sanctions
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government (CIG) established a Russia Sanctions Task Force on 16 March 2022, almost two years ago. The task force, known as Operation Hektor, is chaired by Financial Reporting Authority (FRA) Director R.J. Berry. It was formed to coordinate, identify, and make policy amendments to implement sanctions on the Russian regime.
Dart seeks to avoid beach retreat with unproven concept
(CNS): The Dart Group has begun circulating a video on social media that rejects the idea of a managed retreat combined with imported sand replenishment to address the erosion problem on Seven Mile Beach in favour of ‘sand engines’, a scientific solution developed in Europe. Dart hired Denmark-based consultants DHI to conduct a study of […]
Appeal court to hear crown on Bush’s stalled assault case
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has agreed to hear the prosecution argue why an indecent assault case against former premier McKeeva Bush should not have been stopped and why the crown should still be able to try Bush on the allegations. However, the appeal will not be heard until May next year, which […]
Delays in case cut bank burglary gang’s jail time in half
(CNS) The sentences of three men convicted of an “audacious burglary” at the Royal Bank of Canada in 2016 and a woman accused of handling $4,000 of the more than CI$500,000 that was stolen were all cut by 50% on Friday because it took over eight years for the case to conclude. David Samuel Bodden, […]
Cayman Islands endured hot, dry October
(CNS): Temperatures climbed on all three Cayman Islands during October, making it the tenth month in a row in which temperature records exceeded the average. Cayman Brac had the hottest temperature, which rose to 93°F on the fifth of the month, exceeding the average 30-year temperature for October by 2.5°F. It was also unusually dry, […]
Another late storm brews in central Caribbean
(CNS): The Cayman Islands could face another storm in the next week or so, according to the National Hurricane Center. A tropical wave over the central Caribbean Sea has an 80% chance of developing into a storm in the next seven days as an area of disorganised showers and thunderstorms moves slowly westward into our […]
RCIPS warns about text and social media scams
(CNS) Police said two specific scams are currently targeting people in the Cayman Islands. One is a social media romance scam involving a fake persona called ‘Andrei Wolfman’, and the other is a text message bank scam that cons customers into thinking their accounts have been put on hold. Police are reminding people of the […]
