Mental Health patients jailed for no crime
In one of the most deplorable reports I have ever seen, Complaints Commissioner Nicola Williams Special Report detailed failures by the Cayman Islands government to meet the requirements of its own law in regard to the treatment of mental health…
More DVITP Graduates
Thirteen graduates recently received certificates upon completing the Domestic Violence Intervention Training Programme (DVITP). Drawn from the Department of Community Rehabilitation, Postal Services, Public Libraries, Crisis Centre, and including retired police officers from the United Kingdom, the latest group…
More red tape for all Cayman companies:
[This] “amendment is the most ill drafted and ill conceived one that I have seen in over forty years” says prominent Cayman accountant, “Should this amendment come to pass the islands Financial Industry will collapse over night.” Georgina Wilcox In…
More mangroves to be destroyed
By Georgina Wilcox RC Estates have been given permission to remove 50 feet of recovering mangrove buffer that runs 2,000ft along the coastal lots of a proposed development in the South Sound. In today’s Editorial “When will they ever learn?”…
Comments invited on Data Protection Bill
A two month consultation period has just opened for members of the public to provide comments on draft legislation that will regulate the collection and use of personal data by all businesses, organisations and government entities and also grant new…
Cayman Islands will be celebrating PEACE on 21 Sep 2012
In 1999, Jeremy Gilley founded Peace One Day, a non-profit organization, and in 2001 Peace One Day’s efforts were rewarded when the member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the first ever day of global ceasefire and non-violence on…
Commission for Standards has no teeth
The Commission for Standards in Public Life was formed in January 2010 but its latest report (see attached in full) says that in its three previous reports “the Commission highlighted the need for the enactment of the necessary enabling legislation…
Helicopter crew training reaps reward
A trip into thick bush to find water for his cattle went wrong for a local man earlier today – however the quick actions of the police helicopter crew ensured that he was found quickly and did not require any…
Much speculation concerning missing boatmen
We give thanks the three West Bay men and the two Jamaican nationals who were reported missing at sea on Thursday Aug 23rd were traced and found to be well. James Michael Ebanks, Sidney Henry Ebanks and William Miguel Bush, with two Jamaicans,…
A Pain Free Mammogram! CTMH upgrades their Digital Mammography Equipment
Women who undergo routine Mammograms at Chrissie Tomlinson Memorial Hospital (CTMH) and Cayman Islands Imaging (CII) now have the latest diagnostic technology available to them, digital mammography and Tomosynthesis. CTMH has upgraded their mammography equipment and integrated an R2 Computer…
