FCIA Public Beach Park & Bike Path Plans near completion amid demonstrations
Work on the new park at Public Beach under the ForCayman Investment Alliance is nearing commencement, Cayman Islands, GRAND CAYMAN. Work on the new park at Public Beach under the ForCayman Investment Alliance is nearing commencement, along with the…
Ministry Plans for Year Ahead
Heads of Department and Statutory Authorities under the Ministry of Health, Environment, Youth, Sports and Culture met earlier this year to review their successes of 2012 and discuss some priorities for 2013. Minister Mark Scotland, JP, Chief Officer Jennifer Ahearn,…
Cayman Cookout: The food fest circuit’s hottest ticket
By Marla Cichowski, FoxNews Picture the ultimate winter get-away in the Caribbean. Then throw in 30-plus celebrity chefs, including Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert and Spike Mendelsohn and you have, quite possibly, the hottest ticket in the culinary fest circuit. Grand…
Mourant Ozannes announces 2012-2013 legal scholarship recipient Ruth-Beth Jackson
The Mourant Ozannes biennial scholarship which is open to students either about to start, or who have started, a Bachelor of Law degree at either the Cayman Islands Law School or abroad, has been awarded this year to Ruth-Beth Jackson….
Equity markets stay strong despite economic uncertainty
By Jamie Robertson Presenter, BBC World News Of all the sayings about the markets, the one about them hating uncertainty has always struck me as the oddest. What makes a market, after all, if it’s not the uncertainty of prices?…
Who, What, Why: Who first called it a ‘fiscal cliff’?
By Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington The phrase “fiscal cliff” is now part of the American lexicon, describing the looming deadline when tax cuts expire and spending cuts kick in. But where did the term come from and is the…
Cayman Islands: Expanded Master Fund Registration Regime
Article by Anthony Travers and Richard Mansi Executive summary The Cayman Islands has recently introduced amendments to the Mutual Funds Law (the “Law“) which require the registration of certain trading subsidiaries of registered funds as “master funds”. Closed ended funds…
2013 YCLA Finalists announced
Honouring excellence in our young leaders. The Young Caymanian Leadership Award is set to take place on Saturday 23 March 2013. On CITN/Cayman27’s Daybreak morning show on Thursday (17) the five finalists were announced as: Michael Blackburn, Marzeta Bodden, Victor…
Sheree L. Ebanks is recognized by Continental Who’s Who
Sheree L. Ebanks is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the financial services industry Continental Who’s Who/- Sheree L. Ebanks is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the financial services industry as…
President of Cayman’s Law Society says profession needs a modern Legal Practitioners’ Law
In a speech delivered last Wednesday (16) at the Grand Court Opening, the newly appointed President of the Law Society, Alasdair Robertson, a partner in the Finance Group of Maples and Calder, said that the profession was in desperate need…
