Texas floods kill 24 people and leave many missing from girls’ summer camp
From Angélica Casas and Nadine Yousif, BBC News Kerrville resident Leighton Sterling watches flood waters along the Guadalupe River in Texas Getty Images A major search and rescue operation is continuing through the night in Texas after flash floods killed…
Cayman: Police Respond to House Explosion in Bodden Town
From RCIPS At approximately 7:00 PM on Friday, 4 July, emergency services – including police, fire, and ambulance, were dispatched by the 9-1-1 Communications Centre to reports of a house explosion in the Look Out Gardens area of Bodden Town….
Fraud alert: A bank representative will never do this
From CIBC Caribbean If you’ve received these communications, it could be fraud Don’t be fooled by an imposter, report suspicious activity immediately at [email protected] or call 1 866 743-2257.
5 July Weather in Cayman & Tropical Report, 1 TS
Sat 5 July 2025 TROPICAL REPORT Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook Atlantic – Caribbean Sea – Gulf of Mexico Tropical Weather Outlook 800 AM EDT Sat 5 July 20251205 UTC Sat 5 July 2025 IMAGE FROM NHC Tropical Weather Outlook Text Tropical…
Cayman: DEH Operations on Constitution Day 2025 – Monday July 7
By: Yolanda Morales-Carvalho The Department of Environmental Health (DEH) is advising the public of the early closure of the George Town Landfill operation on Monday, July 7, 2025, in observance of Constitution Day. The George Town Landfill will close at 1:00…
Former Trinidad prime minister denied a pension
By Bert Wilkinson From Caribbean Life Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Stuart Young. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva Trinidad’s new government has succeeded in backdating legislation to prevent the country’s shortest-serving prime minister from being entitled to a monthly pension of…
CAF Presents Roadmap for National AI Implementation at UWI Five Islands Conference
Dr. Stacy Richards-Kennedy, CAF’s Regional Manager for the Caribbean, speaking at The UWI 5IR AI Conference in Antigua during the opening session on June 23 The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica, West Indies. Friday, July 4, 2025—The Caribbean must not be…
ESO Media Release: Quality of Life scored Satisfaction in the Cayman Islands at 82.9%
The Cayman Islands’ Quality of Life (QOL) was assessed through a comprehensive survey, with the score standing at 82.9%. This represents a slight decrease of 0.7% from Spring 2024. The overall QOL score for Caymanians was 81.8%. The most significant…
Cayman: Unemployment Rate for the last six months of 2024 is 2.4%
Labour market estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) Fall 2024 show the unemployment rate (the proportion of unemployed persons to the total labour force) at 2.4%. The total labour force increased by 0.5% to reach 60,828. The employed labour…
Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd. Announces Overall Declining Energy Costs
Grand Cayman, July 4, 2025Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd. (CUC) is pleased to announce an overall annualreduction in costs for its customers, due to ongoing investment in critical infrastructure. Delivery of the Cayman Islands’ climate change targets and responding to increasingdemands…
