United front at Offshore Alert
The Miami-based Offshore Alert Conference has become a regular draw for representatives of Cayman’s financial services industry in recent years, and this year’s event is no exception with the Cayman Islands lending strong support through the provision of speakers from…
Managing Partners suspends redemptions to life policy fund
From Products By: Helen Burggraf – International Adviser Managing Partners Ltd, a Cayman Islands-registered asset manager, has revealed that it “imposed a redemption gate” on its Traded Policies Fund last month, becoming the latest traded life policy fund manager to…
Former MLA and founding UDP member found guilty of theft
Lyndon Leathan Martin (42), was found guilty of stealing $926 from the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of the Creek and Spot Bay Primary School at a fundraising food sale in 2011. In Summary Court on Cayman Brac, Martin was found…
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Elections Office: issuing of voter cards – UPDATE
The Elections Office is extending the hours during the weekday for Voter ID cards in order to ensure as many persons as possible have the opportunity to receive their ID. The last day to collect a voter’s card from the…
The Editor Speaks: Accidents do happen and stop vandalizing/stealing election posters
It is extremely unfortunate that an elector was accidentally struck off from the register of voters. Mistakes do happen and it always pays to check. The Elections Office admitted it was a mistake on the part of its staff. However,…
EU funds weather station to help protect Cayman from natural disasters
The Cayman Islands is now better prepared to deal with natural disasters, thanks to the recent commissioning of a Digital Early Warning System station in that country. The station completes and complements a European Union regional programme which has already…
Injured Bolt to skip Jamaica meeting [‘he hopes to be running in Cayman’]
From The Times of India KINGSTON: Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has been ruled out of Saturday’s Jamaica International Invitational meeting because of a slight hamstring strain, his agent said on Tuesday. The 100 and 200 metres world record…
Gunrunning Caymanian gets nearly 4 years jail in USA
Michael Brandon Leslie, from the Cayman Islands, has been sentenced to 46months imprisonment in the USA after pleading guilty to gunrunning, plus a three-year term of supervised release. Leslie was one of six defendants charged with gunrunning between the Cayman…
The Editor Speaks: Sometimes it is not a good thing to ‘hedge your bets’
With a seemingly wave of public discontent with the past United Democratic Party (UDP) Government but claiming the mess our country is in is mainly due to the party system and not its leadership, the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) candidates…
New Children’s Law comes into effect
Last Monday (29) new rules for the protection of children came into effect as a result of the passage of the Children Law last July. Officials from the courts said the newly issued Children Law Rules and Allocation Order form…
