Topic: Bonaventure Boys’ Home

A newly remodelled Bonaventure Children’s Home was inaugurated this week in West Bay by private donors, volunteers and government officials.

Youth worker Michael Anthony Stewart, who is accused of manslaughter in relation to the drowning death of a 14-year-old boy who was in his care, told a jury Wednesday that he not tried to help the boy because he could not swim.

A former supervisor at Bonaventure Boys Home appeared in Summary Court just before noon on Friday after being extradited from the United States.

United States law enforcement authorities are attempting to extradite Jamaican national Larry Levers to Cayman, where he is wanted for manslaughter in relation to the November 2015 death of a teenager at the Bonaventure Boys Home in West Bay.

A planning application for a new youth detention center on the site of the Bonaventure Boy’s Home in West Bay has been “put on hold” because of concerns from neighboring residents about the project.

A new secure facility for young offenders is planned on the site of the Bonaventure Boys Home in West Bay at an estimated cost of around $2.5 million. The proposal aims to bring Cayman’s prison system into compliance with human rights legislation, which requires youth to be housed separately from adults.

Of the schoolchildren referred through youth courts to the Bonaventure Boys Home over the last three years, none has graduated high school and more than a third have been charged with further crimes.

Police arrested a 63-year-old man this week on suspicion of manslaughter and cruelty to a child in connection with the case of the 14-year-old boy who drowned off South Sound.

One year on from the death of a 14-year-old boy in the water off South Sound during an outing with the Bonaventure Boys’ Home, police have put out a new appeal for witnesses. Photographs of a man and woman who were believed to be on the scene were released Tuesday.

A new cottage for boys is opening on the site of the Frances Bodden Home in Lower Valley, filling an “urgent need” for youngsters in care.

Ministers and top tax officials from more than 30 countries will sign an international agreement at the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development this week that will “significantly advance the fight against corporate tax avoidance,” the OECD said.