Tag: Bernie Bush
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.
Pre-Pirates Week heritage days kick off in East End
(CNS): The latest experiment with the Cayman Islands’ annual Pirates Week festival kicks off next week with the first-ever series of pre-festival Heritage Days. The 12-week campaign focusing on Cayman’s culture and heritage begins next week on Friday, 16 September, in East End for a daylong celebration that will showcase what the district has to […]
Heroes Day 2023 to celebrate volunteers
(CNS): The Ministry of Youth, Sports, Culture and Heritage (MYSCH) has opened the nominations for National Heroes Day 2023 and is asking the public to put foward the names of local people or organisations for their volunteer work and charitable services. The nomination period for the local gongs is open until 16 October and will […]
Revamped Pirates Festival stretched to three months
(CNS): The annual Pirates Festival is undergoing another change and instead of a condensed version as was the case in 2021, the plan this year is to bring back the Heritage Days where each district hosts its own event at two-week intervals, beginning in September. The new three-month festival starts on 3 September with a […]
New minister offers support to fire chief designate
(CNS): Home Affairs Minister Sabrina Turner, who was given the portfolio in April, has offered her support to Chief Fire Officer Designate Randy Rankin, who will take over from CFO Paul Walker when he leaves the Cayman Islands in September. Turner took over responsibility for the Ministry of Home Affairs from Bernie Bush in the […]
Bernie, back on the job, welcomes athletes home
(CNS): Sports Minister Bernie Bush, who was back in his ministerial post this week, was in attendance to congratulate the National Junior Track and Field and Swimming squads at a special reception on Monday evening to celebrate their outstanding 2022 CARIFTA Games performances in Jamaica and Barbados. The athletes returned from the Games with a […]
What’s PACT without two letters?
101 writes: Praises were heaped on Premier Wayne Panton when he recently did the ‘tough’ thing and suspended Cabinet Minister Bernie Bush for his recent behaviour which breached the code of conduct. But closer inspection of the situation demonstrates that the PACT government, rather than doing anything historical, may be demonstrating an all too familiar […]
Bernie Bush scandal pushed CO to resign early
(CNS): Michael Ebanks, the acting chief officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs, has resigned from the civil service over the Bush scandal, and Julian Lewis, one of the two deputy COs in the ministry, is now acting in the post until the top job is filled, officials have confirmed. The news of Ebanks’ resignation […]
Bernie’s alleged bias against fire chief backfires
(CNS): Minister Bernie Bush has been suspended from office and lost responsibility for home affairs after infringing the Constitution and breaching the Ministerial Code of Conduct over the management of the fire service. In a press statement released early Monday, Premier Wayne Panton said that Health Minister Sabrina Turner was taking over the home affairs […]
Minister cut funds for fire chief’s training bonus
(CNS): Home Affairs Minister Bernie Bush has told CNS that when he took up office, he was surprised to learn that the current chief fire officer had been paid extra cash each month to train Caymanians. Bush said he had done what he could within the law to ensure the funding was cut off.
