Want protection from superstorms? Bring back our wetlands
by s.e. smith From Care2 Wetlands offer a quiet natural beauty filled with shorebirds, other animals, and a variety of plants like mangroves, reeds, and more, but they’re dwindling in number and that’s bad news–not just for the animals and…
The Editor Speaks: Innocent until proven guilty but you stay in jail until trial
Brian Borden is accused of killing Robert Mackford Bush in September 2011 in a West Bay gang-related shooting. Borden will not go to trial until January next year. This will mean he will have been imprisoned without trial for more…
Chantal is gone but remains will bring rain
Chantal dissipated Wednesday afternoon into a tropical rainstorm (wave). Though the threat for damaging winds has decreased, heavy, flooding downpours will continue from Hispaniola to the Bahamas and here in Cayman we will feel its effects too. From the Cayman…
Jeffrey Webb hopes his presidency will transform CONCACAF
By Grant Wahl, From Sports Illustrated SALT LAKE CITY — CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands says it’s an “injustice” that CONCACAF will have to go at least 32 years between hosting World Cups, and he thinks the…
10 election candidates fail to submit expenses
Although ten candidates in the May general elections failed to comply with the law and did not submit their accounts to the Elections Office by the 28 June deadline, they will not face sanctions. The new Supervisor of Elections, Wesley…
The Editor Speaks: Immigration changes imminent
Premier Alden McLaughlin has announced that an immigration reform proposal is being tendered for next week and will be going to the Legislative Assembly prior to the 28th October deadline when thousands of non-Caymanian workers are due to be sent…
British mother locked in squalid Caribbean jail for a YEAR without charge
By MARK DUELL From The Daily Mail UK Plight of British mother locked in squalid Caribbean jail for a YEAR without charge after ‘she killed husband in a road accident’ Nicole Reyes, 37, originally from Rumney, Cardiff, locked up last…
Caribbean apprehensive as dangers of climate change increase
Written by Independent European Daily Express It has taken just eight inches of water for Jamaica to be affected by rising sea levels, with parts of the island nation have disappearing completely, threatening people’s livelihoods and much more. “People speak…
The police also carry out credit card misuse
Further to my Editorial in yesterday’s iNews Cayman (published 9th July) “Abuse of company/government credit cards” a report published in 2011 from the United Kingdom’s Independent Police Complaints Commission found 40 Metropolitan Police officers misusing corporate credit cards. The following…
The Editor Speaks: Abuse of company/government credit cards
We have highlighted a story in iNews Cayman today re a Virginian Governor, Bob McDonnell who has been accused of misuse of a state credit card. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Our ex-premier McKeeva Bush is also facing similar charges except…
