Tag: Elvis McKeever
UPM divided over additional referendum questions
(CNS): Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan still supports adding more topics to the referendum that the UPM government has said it is going to hold before the end of the year on the question of cruise berthing facilities. Speaking on Radio Cayman, Bryan, who acknowledged that he is known in some circles as “Referendum Man”, said […]
Elvis walks free after judge stays case over jury process
(CNS): Elvis McKeever (64) from Cayman Brac walked away from Grand Court a free man on Thursday after a judge stayed two charges against him that had been brought under the ICT Act. McKeever was accused of threatening public officials in a social media rant, but the case was stopped by Justice Philip St John-Stevens […]
Elvis denies threatening CJ, cops or lawyers
(CNS): Elvis McKeever (63) from Cayman Brac has denied charges of inciting civil disorder or threatening Chief Justice Anthony Smellie, lawyers working in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions or the police during video on social media in November last year.
Ex-Brac candidate to fight ICT harassment case
(CNS): The lawyer acting on behalf of Elvis McKeever (63), who stood as a candidate for Cayman Brac East in the 2021 elections, has said her client will be pleading not guilty to the charges against him when he is served with papers. McKeever appeared in Grand Court on Friday via video link, accused of […]
Elvis charged over threatening Facebook rant
(CNS): Elvis McKeever (63) has been charged following one of his frequent social media posts railing against the establishment. Police arrested the former political candidate for Cayman Brac East on 10 November, accusing the well known advocate for the legalisation of cannabis of making threats against government officials and members of the uniformed services. However, […]
Elvis arrested for threats on viral Facebook video
(CMR): Elvis McKeever (63), who ran for office in Cayman Brac East in the 2021 General Elections, was arrested Wednesday on Cayman Brac by detectives for allegedly making threats of violence on a live stream video on social media, where he insulted a number of authority figures during one of his regular posts. But during […]
Elvis holding Juliana to ganja promise
(CNS): Elvis McKeever has said he will be holding his opponent in last week’s elections, Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, to the commitment she made in the last stages of the campaign to the legal cultivation of medical marijuana. Posting a video on his Facebook page ahead of the swearing-in yesterday, McKeever, who unsuccessfully challenged O’Connor-Connolly for her […]
Brac ganja activist arrested for possession
(CNS): A leading voice in the campaign to legalise the medical and recreational use of ganja as well as personal cultivation in the Cayman Islands has been arrested again for possession and consumption. Elvis McKeever (61) was taken into custody last week but has since been bailed after a bust at his Cayman Brac home. […]
Bracker petitions for decriminalisation of ganja
(CNS) UPDATED WITH PETITION: Elvis McKeever, from Cayman Brac, has begun a petition calling on the government to change the law and decriminalise the cultivation of ganja for medical purposes and permit personal recreational use of of the plant. McKeever was arrested recently after police seized almost four dozen marijuana plants he had allegedly grown […]
