Young pawn shop robber sentenced
Aaron McLaughlin (21) received his sentencing on Tuesday (3) by Justice Charles Quin after pleading guilty to robbing the Cashwiz pawn shop in Bodden Town. McLaughlin received four years for the robbery and three years for possession of an imitation…
The Editor Speaks: When ageing isn’t really too OLD for good use
We are all ageing, from the very day we are born. I am 70 years old and I am aged. Am I too old therefore to have any useful service? I am well over the retirement age so should I…
The Editor Speaks: Disappointed in Miller’s stance against conservation bill
North Side’s Independent Member of the Legislative Assembly, Ezzard Miller, is on the attack again. Whilst I have supported him in nearly all his previous tirades against government shenanigans (my word) and bringing to light corruption that would have probably…
Man charged with Sprint robbery remanded and committed to Grand Court
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service has reported today (3) that a man has been charged and has appeared in court in connection with the Sprint robbery which took place outside Britcay House on 4 October, 2012. The 27–year-old was…
West Bay man found guilty of gun possession
On Thursday 28th November Ray Kennedy-Smith Jr. of West Bay was found guilty by Justice Charles Quin of possessing a firearm in a judge alone trial. The firearm was a loaded Smith & Wesson model 5906 pistol. that was recovered…
The Editor Speaks: “Disappointing” is actually “appalling”
In a disclosure reported on Monday (2) by the Caymanian Compass under the title “Lawmakers’ financial disclosures ‘disappointing’” it says Karin Thompson, chairwoman of the Commission for Standards in Public Life, used the word “disappointing”. The story was about the…
Nadiyah from Grand Cayman is featured on BGLH
Style: Nadiyah from Grand Cayman BEST DRESSED by Rinny From BGLH Introduce yourself! N: My name is Nadiyah Abdul-Jabbar. I’m originally from Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. I’ve been living in Chicago for a little over a year. I’m now a…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman is squeaky clean
No more will the Cayman Islands be called names like “notorious”, “crooked”, “secretive”, “nefarious”, etc. No longer can we be called “A tax haven”. Almost overnight Cayman has become squeaky clean. Every door in all those buildings in Cayman’s capital…
The Editor Speaks: Why were the alleged bank robbers even brought to court?
Was the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) too eager to prosecute because of the high profile nature of the robbery? The robbery of a premier bank right in the heart of George Town, the capital of the Cayman Islands…
St Andrew’s Day is Sat 30 Nov
Who was he? What do we know from the Bible? Well we just learnt from the reading that Andrew was a Galilean fisherman working in the Black Sea before he and his brother Simon Peter became disciples of Jesus Christ….
