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Compass News – 8 June 2026
The Department of Environment tells Compass TV what to be aware of locally this World Ocean Day.
Officials announce a growing threat to local reefs, with Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease impacting Little Cayman.
After seven years, the Water Authority announced last week that their rates will increase from this July. Compass News hears the decisions that led to this spike, and what the Authority hopes to achieve.
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Two loggerheads first turtles tagged in new tracking project
Two loggerhead turtle nesting on local beaches have become the first turtles to be fitted with a satellite transmitter and acoustic tag as part of a new tracking programme by the Department of Environment.
The first turtle, named Amber in honour of Cayman Islands Brewery’s Lagerhead amber beer which helps fund turtle conservation, was tagged by a team of researchers on the night of Monday, 1 June. The second, Watts, sponsored by CUC and named after units of power, was tagged on Tuesday, 2 June. They are the first of 10 turtles the department expects to tag this summer.
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