Festive road safety drive – ‘Stay Alive’ – UPDATE: Arrests made
UPDATE: Stay Alive – Eleven arrested From RCIPS Dec 2 2013 1:02pm Eleven people were arrested this weekend as part of the RCIPS festive road safety initiative – Stay Alive. Eight of the arrests were in relation to driving under the…
More cells & Drugs at Northward
Interceptions of contraband continue at Northward Prison, with over six pounds of ganja found between early October and mid-November 2013. Also detected in the Northward compound in this period were 13 cell phones and chargers. While Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands…
CIPS wants you to get it there on time
It’s time to start thinking about sending Aunt Mae and Uncle Harry their Christmas cards and presents. That’s because the Cayman Islands Postal Service’s deadline to mail gifts to family and friends overseas for the holiday season is fast approaching….
HPC warns of illegal “beauty” injections
Health Care Practitioner Licence necessary to provide cosmetic-type injections The Health Practice Commission (HPC) has recently been made aware that there may have been instances of persons, who are not medically trained or licensed, offering injections for “beauty” purposes. By…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman is squeaky clean
No more will the Cayman Islands be called names like “notorious”, “crooked”, “secretive”, “nefarious”, etc. No longer can we be called “A tax haven”. Almost overnight Cayman has become squeaky clean. Every door in all those buildings in Cayman’s capital…
Christmas meat inspections
During the festive season in the Cayman Islands, local residents enjoy many traditional Christmas dishes using fresh local meat. As a result of this increase in demand, there is an increase in the number of animals slaughtered by local butchers….
HSA receives fetal monitors from Rotary
The Rotary Club of Grand Cayman recently donated two fetal heart monitors to the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) Maternity Ward. The machines were presented to the Maternity Unit by past and present Rotarians Eric Bush, Chris Bailey and…
Cayman Islands Funds and US FATCA
By Martin Livingston, Jon Fowler, Tim Frawley, Alasdair Robertson From MAPLES, 29 November 2013 On 18 March 2010, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act of 2010 added chapter 4 to Subtitle A (“Chapter 4”) of the US Internal Revenue…
Caymans Islands to no longer be a fabled tax haven
By Denny Gulino From mni news WASHINGTON (MNI) – With the U.S. signing Friday of a mutual agreement to turn over the names of account holders to each other’s tax authorities, the Cayman Islands’ long history as one of the…
Chief Justice presents paper on Cayman Trust Law
Chief Justice Anthony Smellie presented a paper on Cayman Trust Law at the International Trust and Tax Summit in Miami. The main purpose of the conference was to bring together leading professionals and practitioners to exchange and share their ideas…
