A shooting at Grand Cayman? Yes – but in TEXAS!
From KTRX-TV/DT Sugar Land officers shoot, kill man during confrontation By Sonia Azad SUGAR LAND, TX (KTRK) — An officer-involved shooting left a man dead last night in Sugar Land. Investigators believe the man was arguing with his parents moments…
The Editor Speaks: Some common sense
Royal Cayman Islands Police Service Commissioner David Baines said on Radio Cayman’s “Talk Today” show last Thursday (4) “common sense” should rule the day. Mr. Baines was speaking about sodas, finger sandwiches and chicken wings at Cayman Islands political rallies…
Environment report labels Cayman as “weak”, “weak”, “weak” and “weak”.
We are weak in all four categories of “Species, Sites”, Development control” and “Accountability” in the first-ever analysis of environmental laws across all of the UK’s 14 Overseas Territories. The report, “Environmental Governance in the UK’s Overseas Territories”, was published…
More migrant boaters in Cayman waters
Immigration officials report that a vessel with 11 migrants arrived off Cayman Brac yesterday afternoon (Sunday 7 April, 2013). This group was comprised of eight males and three females. They said they had been at sea for six days. Two…
Philpott: What judge told couple who killed their children
BBC A judge has sentenced Mick Philpott to life for killing six of his children in a fire at his Derby house. He was convicted of manslaughter along with his wife, Mairead, and friend Paul Mosley, who were told they…
Caribbean officials seek to curb dirty money
From Guardian Media KINGSTON—Officials in the English-speaking Caribbean are meeting in Antigua to brainstorm ways of strengthening anti-money-laundering efforts. It’s an uphill battle in the Caribbean, which UN experts consider a top destination for the laundering of cocaine income. Yesterday,…
Tortuga Rum Cakes score knockout at Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night
Miami FL/ Grand Cayman BWI — April 8, 2013 – Stars and athletes at the Muhammad Ali Celebrity Fight Night are enjoying an authentic “taste of the Islands”, each receiving a Tortuga Cayman Islands Rum Cake and $100 gift certificate…
Tributes pour in for Margaret Thatcher
By Alan Cowell and John F. Burns, N.Y. Times Margaret Thatcher, a dominant, divisive and yet revered figure in British politics whose impact on British life and society was enduring and contentious, died on Monday of a stroke, her family…
Governor backs the bats
With the news that H.E. Cayman Islands Governor Duncan Taylor has installed a bat house on the grounds of Government House along Seven Mile Beach, the National Trust for the Cayman Islands has warned about the dwindling numbers of bats….
