Tag: Bernie Bush
Mac’s back in official role as PS to two ministers
(CNS): Just days before McKeeva Bush MP (WBW) was supposed to face trial, accused of indecently assaulting two female civil servants, he was given an official role in the new UPM Government. According to a press release from the CIG communications department, Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly has appointed Bush as parliamentary secretary to Border Control and […]
Bernie moves to backbench in new UPM line-up
(CNS): Bernie Bush MP (WBN), the former culture minister, has sacrificed his Cabinet post in the new government line-up and will be moving to the back-benches. According to a press release about the new government that was both formed and sworn in behind closed doors on Wednesday, Bush volunteered to give up his ministry to […]
Emancipation Day reinstated as May holiday
(CNS): Cabinet has approved the formal recognition of Emancipation Day and reinstated it as a public holiday starting May 2024. The day was previously observed in the Cayman Islands but was replaced with the Constitution Day holiday by the Legislative Assembly in the 1960s. The reinstatement of this day as a national day of observance […]
Heritage Days dropped from Pirates Week
(CNS): The 2023 National Pirates Week Festival kicks off Friday in Little Cayman, but there will be no District Heritage Days this year. According to a press release about the event, the much loved and foundational element of the festival has been dropped “due to time and budget constraints”, which led organisers “to make a […]
Bernie launches cultural identity campaign
(CNS): As Culture Minister Bernie Bush navigates his way through another firestorm, Cabinet has given approval for his Ministry of Youth, Sports, Culture and Heritage (MYSCH) to launch a cultural identity campaign on the formal naming of the National Dish, Drink, Dessert, Dress and Dance. The campaign will raise awareness of authentic Caymanian customs and […]
Civil servant seeks $750k for minister’s crude joke
(CNS): Bernie Bush, the minister for youth, sports and culture, has issued a written apology to a well-known female public servant over a dirty joke he made to her, which she has said left her shocked and upset. Despite the written apology, the woman is seeking CI$750,000 in financial compensation from the government over the […]
Cayman sending 15 athletes to Special Games
(CNS): Fifteen local athletes will represent the Cayman Islands in the 2023 Special Olympics World Games in Germany next month. The athletes, who have been in training for the last several months, will take part in track and field, swimming and power-lifting events at the Berlin Special Games.
Over 70 CI athletes and swimmers going to CARIFTA
(CNS): The Cayman Island will be sending two National Teams to represent the country at the regional 2023 CARIFTA championships next month. Fifty-four swimmers are heading to Curaçao to compete in the pool and open water, which will be held 3-11 April, and 18 athletes will be competing in the track and field events in […]
Volunteers are Cayman’s ‘social capital’, says premier
(CNS): At the 20th National Heroes Day awards ceremony on Monday, Premier Wayne Panton said that the “selflessness, kindness, and love of country” of volunteers and charities had “created a roadmap for success that we can and should follow to preserve the most beautiful parts of our culture and people”. In his address on this […]
Crooks brings home gold from Australia
(CNS): Jordan Crooks (20) became the men’s 50 Meter Freestyle World Champion at the weekend when the young Caymanian swimmer won the gold medal in 20.46 seconds in Melbourne, Australia. He also posted his fastest time of 20.31 in the preliminaries. “It feels great,” Crooks told online magazine SwimSwam after winning the race and entering […]
Minister urges support for revamped Pirates Fest
(CNS): Culture Minister Bernie Bush is hoping that the community will embrace this year’s Pirates Festival, the first full-scale event since 2019. With a slate of new events as well as several traditional capers, the festival will include plenty of pirate skullduggery as well as local heritage events, competitions, dances, races, food festivals and family days.
