Tag: Alden McLaughlin
George Town cop shop up for sale
(CNS): Cabinet has made a decision to sell the central police station in George Town and use the cash to build a new station, which will also include a courthouse, in Lyndhurst Avenue off Crew Road. Premier Alden McLaughlin revealed the plans to put the property up for sale via public tender during his State […]
PPM claws back 50% Dart tax
(CNS): After more than a year and a half of talks with the islands’ largest investor, the PPM administration has managed to renegotiate the terms of the controversial NRA Agreement between government, the National Roads Authority and Dart Realty. Premier Alden McLaughlin revealed that the 50% accommodation tax rebate on all of the investor’s tourism […]
CIG to buy higher quality CCTV kit
(CNS): Cabinet is now looking at investing in top of the line CCTV that can produce evidence-quality footage, even at night, for the police, the premier has said. Sympathizing with the fears people have about giving evidence on the record in gang-related crime, Alden McLaughlin said the current CCTV system could be upgraded to help […]
Ozziegate was ‘unfortunate’, says governor
(CNS): Cayman Islands Governor Helen Kilpatrick has become the first person in authority to offer any disapproval regarding a verbal attack on a chief officer last month by a minister. Speaking about gender equality in Cayman on Thursday evening at a law school event, Kilpatrick said that the “unfortunate incident” that no one would condone was […]
Alden confirms landfill stays put
(CNS): Having taken over the Department of Environmental Health just a few days ago as a result of the ‘Ozziegate’ scandal, the premier has confirmed that the policy remains the same to fix the dump problem on its current site. Alden McLaughlin also told the press Tuesday that the additional new ministry to his portfolio […]
$450k compactor to address dump issues
(CNS): The director of the Department of Environmental Health, Roydell Carter, said the investment in a new $450,000 compactor for the George Town dump and ten new garbage trucks expected at the end of this month are all desperately needed to help address the myriad issues faced in recent years by his department. Carter and Premier Alden McLaughlin, […]
Emails show tensions in ‘Ozziegate’
(CNS) Updated: The email exchange which led to the controversial verbal assault by cabinet minister Osbourne Bodden on his chief officer, Jennifer Ahearn, last month reveals that he was seeking a reimbursement for the use of his phone for government business, despite being unable to properly account for it. Meanwhile, the opposition leader has raised […]
Alden to talk to British lords about Cayman
(CNS): The Cayman Islands premier is the latest regional leader to be invited to talk to the British peerage as well as business leader and members of the UK government at the Caribbean Council’s Annual Reception at the House of Lords in London. Alden McLaughlin said this was an “amazing opportunity” to promote Cayman on […]
2014 in Review: Heroes and Villains
(CNS): Derek Haines remarkable six marathons in one year to raise money for the local hospice made him undoubtedly the Hero of the Year, but there were many others in the news this year whose heroic efforts made the Cayman Islands a better place. Minister Osbourne Bodden’s foul-mouthed verbal abuse surpassed even McKeeva Bush’s gambling […]
