Legislative Assembly Member for Bodden Town, Osbourne Bodden has given a
three-month ultimatum to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) over
tackling the drug problems on the streets in the district. Speaking at the end of the RCIPS
district community meeting held in Bodden Town on 28 July, where residents had
raised serious concerns, Mr Bodden said the Police were just not getting the
job done... read
more...
Prison Population mostly Caymanian
According to the latest figures up to Friday 22 July, and contrary to many
assumptions, only twenty-three per cent of the country’s prison population in
the Cayman Islands is composed of foreign nationals. Speaking with Cayman
Net News, Prison Director, Dwight Scott said: “Seventy-seven per cent of
the population inside the prison system is actually composed of Caymanian
nationals.”... read more...
Every second counts for emergency vehicles
The Cayman Islands Emergency Services does a fantastic job and on a daily
basis, emergency crews and paramedics face an obstacle course as they race
somewhere to save lives. As traffic congestion mounts, ambulances fire trucks and police cars alike
face an increasing problem getting to the scene, robbing precious time that
could mean the difference between life and death... read more...
Detained Cuban migrants denied visit by ‘friends’ seeking re-union
A Cuban national who now resides in Puerto Rico came to the Cayman Islands
to visit two friends in Northward Prison, where they are being detained as
illegal migrants. Alex Matos said that he came to visit brothers Reniel Perez and Yosvanie
Falcon, men who he had been brought up with and thought of as brothers, he
said...
read more...
Cayman on wrong end of spamming and temporarily blacklisted by SpamCop
Cable & Wireless advises its customers that due to a customer’s unprotected
PC sending a large amount of SPAM via Cable & Wireless’s mail server, it was
placed on a blacklist by SpamCop for approximately 24 hours recently affecting
all customers relaying mail through that server...
read more...
Person of the Day
- Jason Sharpe
There
are very few things that can be compared with the wonderful smell of cedar and
Mahogany trees that are in abundance in Joseph Sharpe’s home parish of
Clarendon, Jamaica. However the smell of the seasoned jerked chicken that he
helps to cook at Seymour’s Jerk Centre comes very close. “I have been the
Supervisor at Seymour’s for two years and the part of my job I love best is
serving the customers...read
more...
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Legislative Assembly Member for Bodden Town, Osbourne Bodden has given a
three-month ultimatum to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) over
tackling the drug problems on the streets in the district. Speaking at the end of the RCIPS
district community meeting held in Bodden Town on 28 July, where residents had
raised serious concerns, Mr Bodden said the Police were just not getting the
job done...
According to the latest figures up to Friday 22 July, and contrary to many
assumptions, only twenty-three per cent of the country’s prison population in
the Cayman Islands is composed of foreign nationals. Speaking with Cayman
Net News, Prison Director, Dwight Scott said: “Seventy-seven per cent of
the population inside the prison system is actually composed of Caymanian
nationals.”...
The Cayman Islands Emergency Services does a fantastic job and on a daily
basis, emergency crews and paramedics face an obstacle course as they race
somewhere to save lives. As traffic congestion mounts, ambulances fire trucks and police cars alike
face an increasing problem getting to the scene, robbing precious time that
could mean the difference between life and death...
There
are very few things that can be compared with the wonderful smell of cedar and
Mahogany trees that are in abundance in Joseph Sharpe’s home parish of
Clarendon, Jamaica. However the smell of the seasoned jerked chicken that he
helps to cook at Seymour’s Jerk Centre comes very close. “I have been the
Supervisor at Seymour’s for two years and the part of my job I love best is
serving the customers...
