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North Side man in court for burglary Loop Cayman Islands
North Side man in court for burglary
Volunteer group treats kids to a day of fishing
WB road, partially closed for private construction, reopens again
Police investigate serious assault in George Town
Opinion: “Multi-generational” Caymanians, a thing of the past?
Economist, Marla Dukharan, to attend aviation conference in Cayman
Aug 15: Weather disturbance detected over central Caribbean Sea
Police ask public to review CCTV footage to help capture robber
Lindsay reaches out to the community for “Back to School”
Police questioned about accountability and trust at GTC meeting
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The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) confirmed that a 33-year-old-man of North Side has been formally charged by the police for the offense of Burglary following his arrest on Monday, August 15.
The arrest and charge were in relation to an incident that took place on July 23, 2022 at a residence located off Bodden Town Road.
It was reported that the North Side man entered the residence and stole a quantity of cash, an electronic device, jewellery and other personal items.
The 33-year-old-man appeared in court today, Tuesday, August 17 and was remanded to return to court tomorrow Thursday, August 18.
Last Saturday was a special treat for eight children who participated in a free fishing trip to the North Sound, organised by the Cayman Kind Action Committee and sponsored by Roger Tatum of Cayman Fr
Concerns also raised about frequent road closures
Readers are asked to note that Op-eds do not necessarily reflect the opinions or beliefs of Loop Cayman.
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Cayman’s total population is 71,105 (not including the prison population
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Life comes with lots of little annoyances, few of them littler or more annoying than mosquitoes. Just about everyone who spends any time outdoors will be bothered by the bloodsucking party poopers at one point or another.
Although it may seem difficult to avoid mosquitoes, there are several easy measures you can take to reduce or eliminate them from your yard and garden. The best control is prevention.
With the exception of those who live near a lake, marsh or swamp – or in densely packed neighbourhoods – most of the blame for mosquito invasions usually falls on the property’s residents.
Mosquitoes need only one-quarter inch of water to breed — and a female can lay hundreds of eggs at a time.
Inspect your property for standing water. Even the most diligent among us will likely find water collected in a children’s playset, tire, clogged gutter, pot saucer, overturned trash can lid or flying disc toy.
Drain or dump water as you see it, even if the amount appears insignificant, and drill drainage holes in the bottoms of vessels like tire swings.
For water that’s intended to stand, such as in ponds and bird baths, the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) is a safe and effective way to kill mosquito larvae.
Several strains of Bt are available, each targeting different insects, so be sure to buy the israelensis strain to target mosquitoes.
The product is also effective against black flies and fungus gnats.
Bti comes in various forms, including doughnut-shaped briquettes called “Mosquito Dunks.”
The floating rings offer 30 days of protection and “will not harm people, pets and other animals, aquatic life, or other insects, including honeybees,” according to the CDC.
If you don’t have a pond or bird bath, you can make a DIY mosquito trap: Add a handful of straw, hay or grass clippings to a (preferably dark-coloured) pail filled with water, and let it sit for 1-2 days.
Then add one mosquito dunk. For large infestations, tuck several buckets around the yard. The decomposing organic matter will attract the insects, which will lay eggs on the treated water.
Replace water and add a fresh dunk every 30 days to thwart future generations of mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes also like to hunker down among weeds and overgrown vegetation. Keep the yard tidy.
Running a standing or box fan at high speed will significantly reduce mosquito activity on your porch, deck or patio.
It works by literally blowing the insects away and dispersing our exhaled carbon dioxide, which would otherwise attract them. You’ll keep cooler, too.
Avoid using insecticidal foggers or sprays, which threaten essential pollinators and other beneficial insects while controlling only a small portion of the adult mosquito population.
In addition, such applications would need to be repeated multiple times per season.
So-called “mosquito plants” and other plants marketed as repellents do, indeed, contain oils or chemicals that the insects find unappealing.
But they’re not effective unless those compounds are released, such as by crushing the leaves. Merely having such a plant in the garden or a pot will not provide any benefit.
Various research studies have shown citronella candles containing lemongrass oil provide mild-to-moderate protection.
The jury is out on whether the benefit can be attributed to the repellent properties of the active ingredient, the candle’s ability to mask the human scent or if the flame itself is the deterrent.
In case you’re wondering, mosquitoes do serve a purpose — as pollinators and bird food.
Still, because the roles they serve in these areas are minor, eliminating them from your yard will not adversely affect the ecosystem.
Itchy welts aside, many of us live or vacation in areas where mosquitoes can transmit viruses like West Nile, Zika, dengue and chikungunya, and parasitic illnesses like malaria.
Pets are at risk, too, with heartworm disease posing the most significant threat.
Wearing long sleeves and pants, reducing time spent outdoors between dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes are most active, and keeping up to date with pets’ heartworm prevention treatments will go a long way toward reducing mosquito bites.
And remember, you don’t live in a barn. Keep the door closed.
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Interim CEO of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Geoffrey Roach says that members are reporting a good response to the Crop Over Staycation special that was offered to Barbadians this year.
Though notified late in the opinions of some, it appears that some locals made good use of the discounted offer.
Chatting with Loop News after a press conference at Island Inn this week, Roach said the early reports are very positive.
“While all the members have not yet reported on the response that they had, those who have have certainly indicated that it was a good programme for them. Even though some of them would not have seen the bookings that they would have liked to see, what they have responded to say to us, is that they thought that the programme really helped to put the staycation programme back in front of the Barbadian public and that will only augur well for them going forward.”
And he said that members have even stepped up to say they are “ready and willing” to participate in another programme of this nature.
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The Bulgin family is still trying to come to terms with the devastating loss of two brothers, 26-year-old Tavaris and 21-year-old Tavaughn Bulgin, in a tragic drowning incident in the US two days ago.
“Two boys one time, Oh God,” the boys’ father, Reverend Keith Bulgin, who is also the pastor at the Palmers Cross New Testament Church of God, told Loop News on Wednesday.
“I do everything for them. They were my boys, and they were so helpful. Tavaughn played keyboard in our praise and worship in the church, and Tavaris (the older brother) was the Sunday School superintendent, he was like a technological genius; he did the structure for the whole church….everything,” Reverend Bulgin said.
The brothers were part of a group that jumped off the infamous ‘Jaws Bridge that connects Edgartown to Oak Bluffs around 11pm on Sunday. Tavaris’ body was retrieved soon after, while the search is still on for the younger brother, who is presumed dead.
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Jaws Bridge is said to be a popular tourist attraction on the island, and many people jump from it during the summer, despite a sign warning people against it.
The brothers were from Clarendon, Jamaica, and were working at a restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard as part of the popular summer work-and-travel programme, which provides employment opportunities for hundreds of university-age students from Jamaica each year.
They have two sisters.
On Tuesday morning, divers and other police units resumed the search for Tavaughn’s body, focusing on the side of the bridge bordering the inlet and pond, a state police spokesman told the Boston Globe. Police deployed side-scanning sonar technology Tuesday, which allows searchers to map the seafloor.
After failing to find Tavaughn Bulgin’s body Tuesday morning, crews worked their way back over to the bridge’s ocean side. But poor weather caused dangerous conditions, the spokesman said, and Tuesday’s search was suspended at 1 pm.
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Going forward, weather conditions will be assessed on a day-by-day basis to determine whether it is safe to resume the search, an article in the Boston Globe reported a few hours ago.
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Ne-Yo says that problems encountered by Vybz Kartel and Spice for the sample of his song “Miss Independent” on their biggest hit, “Romping Shop,” had nothing to do with him.
In an interview on Drink Champs, Ne-Yo says that he was not the one who refused to clear the song as he claims that he was not aware the song was sampled, and he didn’t have an issue with it anyways.
Thirteen years ago, Vybz Kartel and Spice dropped what is now one of the biggest songs in dancehall, “Romping Shop.” The song sampled “Miss Independent” but caused major controversy for all of the artists involved.
Miss Independent was a widely successful track for Ne-Yo as it became his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song spent almost a dozen weeks on various charts and is now a platinum-selling record.
However, after “Romping Shop” was released, Vybz Kartel received a cease-and-desist letter threatening legal action from EMI Music Publishing. A letter from EMI was widely publicized, signaling that the era of dancehall artists sampling hip hop and R&B tracks without permission was over due to the incorporation of technology.
The letter demanded that “Romping Shop” could not be released and that the artist was to destroy all of the recordings of the infringing track and that the song will be removed from all internet sites.
This led to Vybz Kartel changing the riddim on the song and re-releasing it as he did not seek permission to sample the track in the first place. More than a decade later, “Romping Shop” is as successful as “Miss Independent,” which has 424 million views on YouTube.
In his interview with Drink Champs, Ne-Yo says that he had nothing to do with the Jamaican artists being told to change the riddim on the track. The artist said he was ready to approve the clearance as he knew about Vybz Kartel’s popularity back then.
“I didn’t not clear it…the streets cleared it right away which made it virtually impossible to not clear it, even if I was thinking about not clearing it which by the way I was never thinking about not clearing it,” he said to N.O.R.E.
Ne-Yo added that before seeing the popularity of “Romping Shop” rise as it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, he was told about Vybz Kartel, and the knowledge that he had sampled “Miss Independent” without permission had come by surprise to him.
“Before the song was presented to me, the concept of Vybz Kartel and who he was was presented to me. Like, this is ‘that dude’ oh, and by the way, he did this with your song. It was presented to me like that. So I’m like, so, what are we talking about right now? Of course, it’s fine. Why would I have a problem with this?” he told the hosts.
Ne-Yo added that “Romping Shop” inevitably helped to raise the profile of his own track.
“To this day, I can’t be over there and perform Miss Independent without giving props to what the f**k he did. You created a whole other vibe and that’s just off of the sh*t that I was tryna do. I gotta give you love for that,” he said.
The artist added that, in his opinion, sampling is essential to teach the younger generation to make better music or experience an era they could otherwise not grow up in.
“You gotta realise, it’s generations coming behind you …and if you decide to not let nobody f**k with what you did because it’s what you did and you gon’ have this pride about it, then them generations don’t get it. Them generations don’t get to experience it, they don’t get to enjoy it.”
“Romping Shop” is by far one of the most controversial and sexually explicit tracks by Vybz Kartel. The artist became known for his raunchy music, which also saw pushback from society concerning the lyrics of the music.
The song was banned by the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica from radio and TV as it violated the rules for publishing music. This led to the artist creating a “clean” version of the song.
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A joint funeral is set tentatively for Friday for slain 82-year-old Sylda Mudie and her husband, Carltus “Sankar” Mudie, 80, the man who ended her life.
Relatives said plans were still being finalised, but most likely, it would be at the St Vincent Ferrer RC church at Grand Chemin, Moruga.
Sylda Mudie, the mother of two and grandmother of one of Basse Terre Village was a former lay minister in the St Vincent Ferrer parish.
Mudie’s husband, a gardener, shot and chopped her at the family’s home at Edward Trace on August 10. She died in the house.
He also chopped and wounded their son Derek Mudie, 55. Derek lives abroad and is visiting from the US.
When the police went to the house, Carltus Mudie was still holding his licensed gun.
There was a confrontation, and the police shot Mudie, who refused to drop the gun. He was taken to hospital, where he died the next day.
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El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez le dio un ultimátum el miércoles al gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia en la que no darán paso a más alianzas público privadas a cambio de que se atiendan tres medidas relacionas al asunto energético.
“Quiero que estemos claros. Gobernador no cuenta con el voto de la Cámara de Representantes para la próxima alianza público privada sobre el tema energético si no nos sentamos primero y se atienden estos tres puntos”, dijo Hernández Montañez en conferencia de prensa.
“Le enviamos una carta al gobernador donde le estamos solicitando respetuosamente que nos sentemos a dialogar. Gobernador, tenemos que sentarnos a dialogar, vamos a buscar alternativas”, añadió.
Mencionó como uno de esos tres puntos, que se radicó una versión “más sencilla” del Proyecto de la Cámara 1383 vetada por Pierluisi Urrutia, con miras a establecer un diálogo para lograr su firma. El segundo punto, es la radicación de una medida que atienda la falta de transparencia para futuras concesiones de APP’s. El tercer punto, es la generación de energía eléctrica.
“Es bien difícil señor gobernador, le voy a ser bien sincero, que nosotros podamos avalar una transacción de alianza publico privada de generación de energía sin que usted no mejora la gravedad del tema de LUMA. Si no nos sentamos a reestructurar la deuda de Puerto Rico, nos sentamos a reestructurarla nosotros. No la Junta (de Control Fiscal), nosotros con legislación. Y sin la falta de transparencia, una política pública certera que evite que LUMA se repita”, dijo el presidente cameral.
Asimismo, le solicitó a Pierluisi Urrutia que “no extienda el contrato interino de LUMA que se vence el próximo 30 de noviembre y que haga público la certificación de cumplimiento que eran requeridas para comenzar el contrato desde el principio. O sea, nosotros queremos ver cómo se otorgó. Lo que queremos es tráiganos la certificación y por favor, no extienda el contrato en noviembre”, señaló.
Los pronunciamientos del presidente cameralse dieron en una conferencia de prensa en la que expresó cuáles serán sus prioridades en el inicio de la Cuarta Sesión Ordinaria en la Asamblea Legislativa.
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