Cayman Islands Department of Planning offer free roof installation workshop
As part of its continuing public outreach efforts the Department of Planning will be hosting a lecture on trusses, roof framing and uplift connections. This seminar deals with design criteria and industry best practices and all contractors, architects, engineers and…
Only five Cayman Island government agencies have improved practices to prevent abuse of the fuel distribution system
The Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, made public today (5) a follow-up report on his Office’s February 2010 audit of Fuel Card Usage and management. The report, based on work performed by the Government’s Internal Audit Unit in August 2011, also…
PricewaterhouseCoopers donation helps childhood centre
A very special early childhood centre recently received donations of toys, books and computers to benefit the children and management of the centre. Earlier this year, the centre had its computer stolen. A donation by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to the Ministry…
Maples and Calder Donates for New School Playground
Maples and Calder recently donated CI$2,500 toward a new playground for the George Town Primary School. The school’s current playground area and equipment were badly damaged during Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and, to date, have not been replaced. With a…
Cayman Islands judgment affects hedge funds of the Living Dead
Four years after the onset of the financial crisis, tens of billions of dollars remain locked up in illiquid “zombie” hedge funds that suspended their redemptions in the darkest days of the meltdown. Today, these funds produce little if any…
Cayman Islands listed as “a recognised jurisdiction” on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx)
Delaware companies now have a roadmap to apply for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In February 2012, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) issued Listing Decision HKEx-LD24-2012, which permits companies incorporated in Delaware to list on HKEx…
Mayan “end of the world cruise” visiting Cayman Islands
After fielding yet another media call about whether the world will end on Dec. 21 of this year, Douglas Duncan, director of the University of Colorado’s Fiske Planetarium, and one of his astro-colleagues hatched a plan. “When the world doesn’t…
Wikileaks founder mentions Cayman Islands bank that tried to sue him in Australian rally for Julian Assange
Speech by Daniel Mathews Six years ago my friend Julian Assange started telling me about his idea for an organisation. I thought it was a pretty good idea. As we understood it, the way information circulates in our society, and…
Use the words “Cayman Islands” in your email, web, Facebook, twitter, etc. communications invites US Feds
In an innocuous article on billsgler.blogspot.com concerning poets and how to get their works more widely read it makes the claim that if you use “Cayman Islands” in your email, web, Facebook, twitter, etc. communications it invites a looksee by…
Brazil says no exchange of information agreement exists with Cayman Islands: calls to put an end to tax havens
Brazilian society and parliament press for concrete measures to put an end to tax havens. One of the reasons for checking on tax havens is the reality of tax evasion, which generates losses to the society. “Brazil and other developing…
