Former peanut butter moguls found guilty of knowingly shipping contaminated food
By Laura Northrup From Consumerist Remember the massive outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter? No, not the one earlier this year, or the one in 2012, or the one in 2007. We mean the one in 2008, where peanut butter…
Trinidad security ministry fires back at claims of extra judicial killings
From Caribbean360 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Wednesday September 17, 2014, CMC – Amid growing concerns that police officers were engaged in extra judicial killings, the Ministry of National Security has said that more than 150 police officers have been shot at since…
Oscar Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide
By BBC South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide after the judge found he killed his girlfriend by mistake. Judge Thokozile Masipa said the athlete had acted “negligently” when he fired shots through a toilet…
Caribbean-based [Cayman Islands] investment advisor sentenced for using offshore accounts to launder and conceal funds
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 5, 2014. Joshua Vandyk, an investment advisor, was sentenced today to serve 30 months in prison for conspiring to launder monetary instruments, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Vandyk, a U.S. citizen, and Eric St-Cyr…
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Cayman Islands beauties won’t show off after all – this year. Even though the Miss Cayman pageant was announced as taking place this year after 3 years of absence, organisers have said it has been postponed until 2015. Nicole Broderick,…
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Cayman identifies new drug trafficking trend From RJR News Cayman’s customs enforcement chief has raised concern about a possible new trend in the smuggling of hashish into Cayman following the arrest of a man who arrived from Jamaica. Customs officers…
Widely used surveillance software can’t access iPhone without jailbreaking
By Leif Johnson From MacLife Apple’s iOS has a reputation for being a more secure operating system than Google’s Android, and as the Washington Post reports, it deserves it. Earlier this week reports from surveillance firm Gamma Group leaked that…
Three men get prison sentences for armed robbery of courier
Manuel Ramirez Carter, Brandon Liberal and John Phillip Cohen-Ebanks all received prison sentences from Justice Charles Quin last Wednesday (23) at Cayman Islands Grand Court in George Town. A fourth man was deemed unfit to plead. All four men had…
Judge sentences Cayman police officer to prison for bribery and breach of trust
After a jury unanimously found ex police officer Elvis Kelsey Ebanks guilty of 2 counts of bribery and 2 counts of breach of trust, Justice Charles Quin last Thu 24th handed down a custodial sentence of 3 years on 2…
Sex-on-beach trial Britons guilty
From BBC A British man and woman have been sentenced to three months in jail in Dubai after being found guilty of having sex on a beach. Michelle Palmer, 36, of Oakham, Rutland, and Vince Acors, 34, of Bromley, south-east…
