A new contingent of officers will arrive in the Cayman Islands shortly to join the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS). Police Commissioner, Stuart Kernohan announced that 24 new officers are coming at a Media Briefing on 12 April 2006. He said with the addition numbers at the RCIPS will move to just over 340 but did not say if that was a full complement... read more..
Meeting raises local concerns over Cayman’s roads
The Cayman Islands Road Safety Advisory Committee (CIRSAC) and the National Roads Authority (NRA) are fed up with the practice of some parents who drop off their children on main thoroughfares to have them cross the busy roads to get to school. Aileen Samuel, Chairperson of the CIRSAC, said parents are dropping children on one side of the road leaving them to cross over... read more..
New date for Pirates Festival
Along with a new date announced on Thursday 13 April for the annual Pirates Week National Festival, comes word that further changes may be in the works. The Ministry of Tourism has slated the Pirates Week event for Thursday 9 November to Sunday 19 November 2006 at later in the year than is traditional. Pat Bazell-Taylor said many open-air activities have suffered due to heavy rains... read more..
Cayman’s bad driving under attack from police
According to the Commissioner of Police Stuart Kernohan, errant drivers are holding other road users “hostage” on Cayman’s streets and the law should come down hard on these drivers. “The book should be thrown at these people,” he said. Commissioner Kernohan and Deputy Commissioner Anthony Ennis met with members of the Media on Tuesday 11 April... read more..
VDLU failed to collect public drivers fees
According to Government a recent review by the Internal Audit Department discovered that fees for public transportation operators, which have been in government’s regulations since 1995, were not being collected.... read more..
Person of the Day - Paul Thompson
As Cayman Brac High School Sports Day Champion three years in a row, Paul Thompson set a High Jump record of 6 foot, one inch, that took another Bracker (Steven Tatum) thirty years to break. “We ran on the road to train and Sports Day was held at the airport,” says Mr Thompson, who gives great credit to the PE Teacher at the time, Jerry Harper... read more..
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A new contingent of officers will arrive in the Cayman Islands shortly to join the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS). Police Commissioner, Stuart Kernohan announced that 24 new officers are coming at a Media Briefing on 12 April 2006. He said with the addition numbers at the RCIPS will move to just over 340 but did not say if that was a full complement... 
The Cayman Islands Road Safety Advisory Committee (CIRSAC) and the National Roads Authority (NRA) are fed up with the practice of some parents who drop off their children on main thoroughfares to have them cross the busy roads to get to school. Aileen Samuel, Chairperson of the CIRSAC, said parents are dropping children on one side of the road leaving them to cross over... 
Along with a new date announced on Thursday 13 April for the annual Pirates Week National Festival, comes word that further changes may be in the works. The Ministry of Tourism has slated the Pirates Week event for Thursday 9 November to Sunday 19 November 2006 at later in the year than is traditional. Pat Bazell-Taylor said many open-air activities have suffered due to heavy rains... 
According to the Commissioner of Police Stuart Kernohan, errant drivers are holding other road users “hostage” on Cayman’s streets and the law should come down hard on these drivers. “The book should be thrown at these people,” he said. Commissioner Kernohan and Deputy Commissioner Anthony Ennis met with members of the Media on Tuesday 11 April... 
As Cayman Brac High School Sports Day Champion three years in a row, Paul Thompson set a High Jump record of 6 foot, one inch, that took another Bracker (Steven Tatum) thirty years to break. “We ran on the road to train and Sports Day was held at the airport,” says Mr Thompson, who gives great credit to the PE Teacher at the time, Jerry Harper... 
