Topic: Christine Rose-Smyth

Ousted members of Cayman's top environmental body on Monday said they would fight their removal in the courts if needed.

Dozens of concerned citizens filled the South Sound Community Centre on Sunday for a discussion on visualizing the future of Grand Cayman in 2020.

The chairwoman of the National Conservation Council has resigned from the position amid increasing uncertainty about the future of the environmental law.

Like cavalry to the rescue, a review committee may soon recommend changes to the law, which bestowed a shocking amount of power on a small appointed group, enabling them to trample the rights of property owners while pushing their agenda on private citizens and public bodies.

When a small, cute looking, bug-eyed possum, known as a sugar glider, escaped on a Cayman Airways flight earlier this year, it sparked concerns about the potential impact of exotic pet smuggling.

Five months after the general election, Cayman’s National Conservation Council says it is struggling, in vain, to get a meeting with the new minister for the environment.

While researchers hope to expand their genetically modified mosquito program to the entire island of Grand Cayman around February, a U.K.-based nonprofit organization has released a report questioning the efficacy of the initiative and criticizing the project’s public approval process.