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So now we have legislation in place that will allow the Cayman Islands Cabinet to designate certain positions, jobs, types of work or business areas as the sole purview of Caymanians.
So, what does this mean?
At the moment, ALMOST absolutely nothing.
An amendment to the immigration law does not specify any role or business which should be [...]
With the television cameras, lights and recording apparatus allowing everyone in the Cayman Islands with a television set to view every second of the proceedings going on in the Legislative Assembly, and with a general election just around the corner, I wonder if any of the present sitting members really care.
I am not asking if [...]
It seems incredible that despite serious allegations made against the chief financial officer of the Cayman Islands Airports Authority before Christmas and more recently its CEO, Jeremy Jackson, the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) have received no complaints to their anti-corruption or financial crime units.
Problems at the Cayman Islands Airport Authority (CIAA) were kept [...]
In my Editorial on March 7th in iNews Cayman, I asked the question “Can ICO hand over confidential submissions to third parties?” (go to http://www.ieyenews.com/2013/03/the-editor-speaks-can-ico-hand-over-confidential-submissions-to-third-parties/). I announced that John Evans, who was one of the persons who applied to the ICO for the Tempura papers release, had now withdrawn his FOI Request 46982 to secure [...]
A Commentary By Froma Harrop
If you drove to work today, did you worry about too few cars on the road? Do you wish more people were waiting in line at the public tennis courts? Are you eager to see new housing developments replace your favorite truck farm?
If your answer to all three questions is “no,” [...]
It is with some puzzlement as to why most of the burglaries being committed here in the Cayman Islands are from repeat offenders.
Chief Superintendent Kurt Walton was speaking at a police briefing with the media on Wednesday (20) and said these repeat offenders were breaking into property to find easy things to sell and in [...]
It is somewhat woeful when a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) accuses the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) of “many atrocities” with little or no evidence to back up such a statement.
Because he can use the privilege of the Legislative Assembly (LA) he can make these disgraceful attacks on the very body that [...]
Do some political candidates understand that advertising is not for free?
I was driving on my way to town this morning listening to Cayman Cross Talk, as I was passing through the Red Bay area, I heard something that was very disturbing.
I heard the Rooster Cayman Cross Talk show host complain that one candidate running for [...]
It is difficult to come to terms with a self-proclaimed “staunch environmentalist” who believes more protection for the marine environment and expanding the marine parks is a good idea, but “it’s simply not the right time to do so”.
One of the candidates for the Cayman May elections made this claim and said he would like [...]
