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Major tour operators and taxi drivers clash

Posted on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 23:12 in

(CNS): Complaints by bus and taxi drivers about major tour operators unfairly monopolising the bulk of the cruise ship business have been refuted by one large firm in a statement to the media. Following a petition submitted to government by bus drivers complaining about the major firms bringing in larger buses to take the business, Island Tours has stated that it is not licensed to operate anything more than nine buses with a maximum of 44 seats and it is not undercutting prices. The issue has come into focus again as smaller operators feel they are being excluded from the possibility of taking passengers to the new TIki Beach Resort on Seven Mile Beach due to open later this year.

Travers to ski for Cayman Islands in Winter Olympics

Posted on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 09:25 in

Cayman Islands News, Grand Cayman sports news, Dow Travers Winter Olympics(The Ski Channel): Dow Travers will be the first ever Winter Olympian for the Cayman Islands. His stunt is alpine skiing and his backstory is set against that beautiful, tax-friendly island of endless white sand beaches. On the flip side, Cayman's highest point does not even qaulify as a mountain or even a hill. It's a bluff, actually called "The Bluff," and it stands 141 feet above sea level. That's not a geological recipe for ski success. It was family winter vacations at Beaver Creek that left Travers with a skiing addiction fueled by competitive drive.

Murder trial to resume after judge’s decision

Posted on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 07:44 in

(CNS): Following three days of ‘closed door’ legal arguments, the murder trial of Kirkland Henry and Larry Rickets is expected to resume today once the chief justice gives his ruling on the submissions made by the solicitor general and Ricketts' (left) defence attorney. On Friday Cheryll Richards QC and Robert Fortune presented their submissions over the admissibility of evidence to the judge based on testimony from key witnesses during the three day voir dire. The ‘trial within a trial’ was interrupted briefly on Friday when the pathologist confirmed that Estella Scott-Roberts’ death was associated with asphyxiation and that she was dead before the killers set the car alight.

California lawmaker goes after Cayman Islands

Posted on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 06:43 in

(CNS): One of California’s lawmakers has pushed a bill through the state assembly to clampdown on US firms using the Cayman Islands to avoid tax and divert the money to college students. The Assembly passed Marty Block’s (D-San Diego) bill with a 41-28 vote to temporarily close a loophole allowing companies to create tax havens in other countries. It will now go to the state Senate. The aim is that corporations would pay taxes on offshore accounts only if the money was made in California, said Christopher Ward, Block's chief of staff. The accounts would be reported on a company's income tax return with the state Franchise Tax Board.

Gov’t faces $1billion liability

Posted on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 19:38 in

(CNS): While government is still wrestling with its short term economic difficulties and the need to balance spending with revenue for this year’s budget, it is also facing an even worse additional future financial liability. As a result of the obligation to pay for future pension and health care claims by its 6,000 plus public sector workers as well as their dependents, government is currently facing a billion dollar liability. Current government assets, however, amount to around US$600 million, which means government will have to find a way to seriously boost its earnings in the future or default on its obligation to pay civil service benefits.

Six dollar robbery earns six years in prison

Posted on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 19:28 in

(CNS): Although Durney Loxley Ebanks may have only demanded $6 when he threatened a grown man and young child with a machete, the robbery earned him six years at Northward Prison. Sentencing the man that even his own defence attorney had called “something of a menace to society” as a result of his long list of previous convictions, Chief Justice Anthony Smellie observed Ebanks’ mental health problems were complicated by his drive to self-medicate with illegal drugs and alcohol. The judge noted that Ebanks could not be trusted to be in society unsupervised as he did not take his prescribed medication and was a danger to others.

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