The Editor Speaks: Is sea turtle farming any different than cattle farming?
Two farming stories have made headlines in the world press this week and both have been disturbing. The one that has affected us most is the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) undercover revelations and petitioning to stop…
Suspended sentence for wounding offence
A man was given a sentence of two years imprisonment, but suspended for two years, because of his guilty plea and other factors in wounding Jeff Naldy Welcome. In the Cayman Islands Grand Court, on 18th October 2012, Justice Charles…
Online Vehicle and Drivers’ Licensing Registration Begins
Individuals who register for Government’s new e-services identification (ESID) number can now renew their vehicle and drivers’ licences online. Announcing the initiative on a local radio show today (Friday, October 19, 2012), the multi-agency public sector team that oversaw the…
Ex- cop Welcome gets unwelcome jail sentence
Justice Alexander Henderson, in the Grand Court on Friday (19), gave Rabe Welcome a prison sentence of six months for wounding. Welome, a 38year old former Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) officer, was found guilty by a jury last…
The Editor Speaks: Conservation crimes and punishment
We commit the crimes and the generations that follow us pay for them. A history lesson no one learns from. What one man fights for and preserves another two or three will destroy. Such are two of our stories today….
New Elections Manual Available
In advance of the May 2013 general elections, political hopefuls will have the benefit of new elections manuals, which were recently completed by the Elections Office. The first “Candidate’s Kit” was presented today (Thursday, 18 October) to His Excellency the…
Maples and Calder Breaks Own Record for Number of Summer Students Recruited
Maples and Calder (“Maples”) welcomed 23 summer student interns to its Cayman Islands office this year, breaking last year’s record number of 19. Each year, Maples invites applications from young adults who are in the last years of their secondary…
Cayman’s blue iguanas moves to “endangered” from “critically endangered”
In the updated International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, Cayman Islands blue iguanas have taken a step back from the brink of extinction through the efforts of Fred Burton and his team of hard…
The Editor Speaks:
….. I’m leavin’ on a jet plane Don’t know when I’ll be back again John Denver’s classic song has kept ringing in my ears today after receiving the People’s Progressive Movement’s (PPM) press release about the Cayman Islands Premier seemingly…
China Harbour named in more scandal
Awarding of JDIP to CHEC is cause of concern to all Jamaicans says OCG in the following release from their Office. CHEC is the company that Cayman Islands premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, is almost hell bent on employing to build…
