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• Sub-tropical Storm Alberto kicks off the season
  (CNS): The National Hurricane Center in Miami has confirmed the emergence of Sub-tropical Storm Alberto. At 10:00am the weather system was located about 55 miles south of Cozumel, Mexico, and around 195 miles southwest of the western tip of Cuba. The storm is moving toward the north-northeast near 6mph, and forecasters said a general slow motion toward the north […]
• UK’s BOT minister to make first trip to Cayman
  (CNS): The UK’s minister with responsibility for the British Overseas Territories will be visiting the Cayman Islands for the first time next week as part of a regional tour to discuss hurricane preparedness and the controversial move to impose public registers of beneficial ownership on the territories. Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon will be here for […]
• Police name visitors who died in local waters
  (CNS): Police have now confirmed the identities of the latest two visitors from the United States to lose their lives in Cayman waters. Peter Stuart Schilke (57) from Connecticut died following a snorkelling trip off the East End coast on Saturday, 19 May. And Walter Franklin Steele (83) from North Carolina died after being found unconscious […]
• Visitor numbers remain strong on land and sea
  (CNS): As the tourism sector faces the start of the slow season, so far there has been no let-up in the continued growth in visitor numbers, both at the airport and the cruise terminals. The arrival of 39,057 visitors last month was just a 0.33% increase on April last year but despite the very small increase, […]
• Rivers battles with definition of ‘economic substance’
  (CNS): Financial Services Minister Tara Rivers has said there are still questions regarding the expectations of the European Union on the definition of “sufficient economic substance”, which is the key to Cayman’s future cooperation. Rivers is currently in Europe attending meetings, summits and forums regarding tax issues and concerns in Europe that led to Cayman […]
• Car thieves strike again stealing Honda Civic
  (CNS): Police are seeking help from the public to track down a stolen 2000 white Honda Civic, registration #131 066, which was taken from outside a home on Shedden Road yesterday. The car thieves struck sometime between 12:15am, when the owner parked the vehicle, and 7am Thursday, when he discovered it had gone. Anyone with information […]
• Maths professor had tens of 1000s of child porn images
  (CNS): Dr Pierre Michel Pavlov Rameau, a former lecturer at the University College of the Cayman Islands, was in possession of tens (possibly hundreds) of thousands of pornographic images when he was arrested last year, the court was told when he appeared at a sentencing hearing Thursday. The crown has charged the maths professor with […]
• Dash cam evidence: On Cayman’s roads (Part 1)
  (CNS Local Life): Are you tired of taking your life in your hands just getting to work? Does the standard of driving on the roads of the Cayman Islands drive you nuts? Well here’s your chance to vent some of your frustrations. With the increase of dash cams, a lot of those ‘yikes!’ moments are […]
• Ex-police clerk dodges jail over grocery card abuse
  (CNS): A local woman who worked as an accounts clerk with the RCIPS and misused a Kirk Supermarket charge card avoided going to jail Thursday, when a visiting judge handed her a 12-month sentence, suspended for 18 months. Sarah Connor (39) was charged alongside her workplace supervisor, Siscely Solomon, who jumped bail after she was arrested […]
• Fund director arrested in cocaine probe
  (CNS): A fund director with Intertrust, a Cayman Islands-based offshore firm, was arrested at his office on Elgin Avenue in George Town Thursday. Police said the 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of cocaine and has been bailed as the investigation continues. No other details have been revealed by police but a number […]