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Concacaf confirms October schedule for 2024/25 Concacaf Nations League Group Stage matches – Cayman’s Elijah Seymour scores Competition’s 1,000th goalSeptember 18, 2024Competition’s fourth edition takes place in September, October, and November 2024, followed by Finals in March 2025 Tournament serves as the qualifier for next summer’s Gold Cup Concacaf Rankings […]- Cayman: Man and Woman Arrested for Attempt Theft and Drug OffencesSeptember 18, 2024From RCIPS Shortly before 12.30AM, Monday 16 September, police responded to a report of two persons attempting to break into a vehicle on Smith Road, near the 4 Way Junction with Hospital Road. On […]
- Caman: Police Investigate Armed Robbery Incident in Red BaySeptember 18, 2024From RCIPS Shortly after midnight, this morning 18 September, police responded to a report of a robbery at a business premises located on Shamrock Road, in the vicinity of Selkirk Drive, where it was […]
- Cayman: National Week of Readiness Urges Hurricane PreparednessSeptember 17, 2024As the hurricane season progresses, the Cayman Islands Government is pleased to announce that 18–25 September 2024 will be acknowledged as a National Week of Readiness. This initiative, led by Hazard […]
- Cayman: WhatsApp Scam Alert on HMCI Group ChatSeptember 17, 2024Grand Cayman, 17 September 2024: Hazard Management Cayman Islands (HMCI) wishes to inform the public of a recent WhatsApp Scam that has impacted a HMCI WhatsApp Group Chat. This Scam resulted in […]
Fiber Optics
Fibre optics has been fabricated from materials that transmit light and are made from a bundle of very thin glass or plastic fibres enclosed in a tube. One end is at a source of light and the other end is…
Wiretapping creates decision dilemma
Opposition continues to mount to government’s wiretapping law as lawyers and legislators question its disregard for the judiciary, instead vesting sole authority in the hands of the Governor. “The Governor is not a lawyer. A judge is the only one…
How to avoid becoming a crime victim
I was speaking to an old friend of mine – a retired law enforcement officer who worked in a precinct in one of the USA’s busiest cities. He visited Grand Cayman recently and he reads iNews every day. He is…
Police fear the worst
Police have for the first time conceded they “fear the worst” in the search for nurse’s assistant Kerran Baker, 25, missing since 30 July. Acknowledging that little evidence had emerged in the three-week search, Chief Superintendent John Jones nevertheless said…
Nothing “fishy” about Barkers, insists Eugene
Veteran boat captain and MLA Eugene Ebanks insists he has no hidden agenda, and his proposals to have a hurricane safe harbour in Barkers was made with the best intentions. Other boat colleagues in the marine world are unhappy with…
MAC STRIKES BACK: Bush in war of words with opposition
Premier McKeeva Bush hit back at opposition politicians yesterday, turning accusations of irresponsibility and destroying democracy back on Ezzard Miller and Alden McLaughlin, claiming they were damaging the Cayman Islands. Reacting to public statements by North Side independent Mr Miller…
Limericks
I love limericks. They are five line poems written with one couplet and one triplet. The rhyme pattern is “a a b b a” with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4…
Speeding and drinking – disaster in the making
With the sudden spate of road accidents, one a horrific tragedy resulting in the death of a pregnant woman, one wonders why it keeps happening? It would appear that both speeding and drinking was the cause of this one. Undue…
Friendly environment for child abuse victims
Children who are victims of sexual abuse will be interviewed by specially trained officers in more comfortable surroundings thanks to a new initiative. A groundbreaking deal has been struck between the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service and the Health Services…
Car Accidents & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Our society is plagued by self-induced stress. Should this be something we pop pills for? Retrospectively, society accepts the unhealthiness of prior forms of medicated stress relief. It is generally accepted that smoking, for example, causes more problems than it…
