Petition against 6-month sentence for child abuse
Cayman Islands number one activist, Sandra Catron, has placed a petition on the ipetitions website page asking everyone in the Cayman Islands (and elsewhere) to sign it. The petition is in response to Chief Magistrate Nova Hall’s sentencing to only…
West Bay man injured but not shot
Sunday, August 18, 2013 05:21 AM SA Pacific Standard Time Shooting Incident – West Bay. Further to the earlier release, upon investigation and subsequent medical examination at the Cayman Islands Hospital it was concluded that the injury sustained was not…
Jury finds Ricketts guilty
At just before 5:30pm on Sat (17) the jury, comprising four men and eight women, found Tareek Ricardo Ricketts guilty of murdering Jackson Rainford on the night of 16 December 2012. The trial had begun on Monday August 5th and…
Three in custody following vehicle crash
From RCIPS Fri, Aug 16, 2013 Three in Custody Following Vehicle Crash. Police are presently on the scene of a motor vehicle collision at Shamrock Rd in the vicinity of Countryside Newlands. At approximately 6:45pm today 16th August 2013 a vehicle…
Premier uses YouTube for Press Release re escaped prisoners
Cayman’s premier, Alden McLaughlin, used You Tube in announcing his call for an emergency meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday (15) afternoon. This was in response to the prison break-out by three inmates from HMP Northward Wednesday (14)…
Navy seizes £100M of cocaine
Navy warship intercepts ‘drug smugglers’ in Caribbean From itv The crew of a Royal Navy warship has seized a stash of cocaine with an estimated street value of £100 million after sailors boarded a speedboat near Puerto Rico, the Ministry…
Another prison drug-toss discovered
Another well-wrapped parcel of contraband was discovered at Her Majesty’s Prison Northward over the weekend, after apparently being tossed over the prison’s perimeter double-fences. Director of Prisons Neil Lavis said the package included vegetable matter resembling ganja (weighing nearly two…
Cayman is ranked number 20 in the world. Caribbean countries occupy 11 places
The number 1 country is the USA and Russia is in seventh place. St Kitts and Nevis comes a close second. Shouldn’t we be proud? Our tiny country is ranked amongst the top 20 in the world! Actually we shouldn’t….
Drug gang violence is Honduras’ scourge
Dudley AlthausGlobalPost.com MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A battle this week that killed at least 17 people in a remote corner of the Caribbean coast of Honduras underscores the deteriorating security situation in what already ranks among the world’s deadliest countries….
In Jamaica, transgender teen killed by mob
By David Mcfadden / Associated Press From Boston.com MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the…
