Tag: Featured
Police make anniversary appeal in Ed Bush mass shooting
(CNS): The RCIPS is making a renewed appeal for information about the mass shooting that took place at the Ed Bush Stadium in West Bay just over a year ago, when seven men were shot and wounded while attending a football match. No one has ever been charged in the incident, which was partially caught […]
Two guns and drugs haul seized in three different busts
(CNS): Police seized two illegal guns and a large quantity of drugs and arrested six people following three different busts over the weekend. The first was on Friday afternoon at around 1:30 after officers signalled for a vehicle to pull over on the Linford Pierson Highway, but the driver failed to stop and sped off […]
OAG issues warning over debt and future liabilities
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government is heading for significant fiscal challenges because of increasing public debt to cover its growing list of capital projects and the liabilities to cover the healthcare cost of retired civil servants now and in the future. In her most recent report about the sustainability of public finances, the departing auditor […]
Unlucky for some, JOCC is PPM’s 13th candidate
(CNS): Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, the premier in the outgoing government, has finally confirmed that she is not retiring and has answered the “call of her people” to run for office yet again, having rejoined the PPM fold. O’Connor-Connolly confirmed her much anticipated candidacy in an audio message from Cayman Brac. In another announcement, the audience heard […]
Sex-offender who molested child dodges serious jail time
(CNS): A local man, who cannot be named because of his connections to the little girl he sexually abused for five years, starting when she was just seven years old, will serve only a few months behind bars, even though on Tuesday he was given a sentence of more than three years. The case against […]
Winspear bows out warning of unsustainable finances
(CNS): As Auditor General Sue Winspear prepares to bid farewell to Cayman this weekend after more than eight years scrutinising, but also trying to help with, public finances, she has published one of her most damning reports to date, stressing the long-term unsustainability of government spending and concerns about its ability to meet future financial […]
Bryan denies forcing Red Spot acquisition for port project
(CNS): Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan has denied accusations that the real reason the Cayman Islands Government wants to buy a small piece of beachfront land in the George Town Harbour is to prepare for a cruise berthing project. The CIG is seeking a compulsory acquisition of Red Spot, which Bryan has said is to support […]
Activists worried over plan for NHDT homes in SS basin
(CNS): Local activist group Sustainable Cayman has raised concerns that plans to build affordable housing in the South Sound basin are being resurrected by the PPM as part of their policy platform. They said there is still no stormwater management plan in place and no indication that the revised National Development Plan will address the […]
Teen’s arrest in road rage incident was lawful, says CoP
(CNS): Commissioner of Police Kurt Walton has defended officers who arrested a teenage driver last week after a road rage incident during rush hour traffic, even though eyewitnesses and video footage indicate the young man wasn’t the aggressor. Walton said that, based on evidence, the arrest was lawful and the matter is under active investigation. […]
Two back-to-back shootings reported in West Bay
(CNS): Police have arrested three men for attempted murder in connection with two shootings that occurred within half an hour of each other early Saturday morning in West Bay. A security guard was shot in the foot at a construction site on Birth Tree Hill Road at around 1:30am. Thirty minutes later, vehicles in the […]
Ombudsman confirms increasing complaints against CIG
(CNS): Sharon Roulstone, the first ombudsman in the Cayman Islands who is a Caymanian, told MPs on Wednesday about the many challenges her office is dealing with as the workload is growing due in no small part to the increasing complaints about the government. Roustone was appearing before the first ever public meeting of the […]
