Lord Ashcroft will have to publicly counter accusations that he made loans to corrupt Caribbean politician
Hon Mr Justice Eady’s decision is the latest development in a “long and tortuous” legal battle between the Tory’s former deputy chairman and the former owners of The Independent. The billionaire Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft will have to publicly counter…
London Olympics: Badminton scandal rocks sport; 8 players expelled
Eight female badminton players were kicked out of Olympic Games over twin charges of “not using one’s best efforts to win a match” and “conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport.” Not words…
Breast Feeding Awareness Week
Issued by Public Health Department: The Cayman Islands will join the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in celebrating their annual Breastfeeding Awareness Week from Wednesday August 1- Tuesday, August 7, 2012. World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) celebrates its twentieth anniversary…
Second Civil Service Orientation Held
A group of civil service recruits recently attended mandatory orientation training to familiarise them with them with organisational structure and legal principles which exist in government. The 32 participants ranged from the Clerk of Courts to other recent hires in…
Tropical depression Five may be heading for the Cayman Islands
Tropical Depression #5 Will Affect Barbados & The Lesser Antilles Tonight Through Friday Thursday, August 2, 2012 5:28 am by Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather Tropical Depression #5: Invest 99L was upgraded to Tropical Depression # 5 late yesterday afternoon…
Ignition and Fiderus form strategic alliance to deliver local IT services and support in Cayman
Leading IT providers in Cayman collaborate to deliver disaster recovery, private cloud, on-site support, 24/7 service desk and data storage in Cayman. Ignition and Fiderus are delighted to announce they have entered into a strategic alliance to deliver local solutions…
Amazing Lightning photograph
This amazing photograph of f lightning appeared recently on the Weather Underground website that was posted by a blogger there. We just had to share it with you and hope we don’t see anything like this here in Cayman. It’s…
Statement of the Cayman Islands Law Society on payroll tax
The Cayman Islands’ economic activity and ability to generate income are entirely dependent upon foreign source income. Our financial industry services investment vehicles, which receive their funds from persons outside of the Cayman Islands, and our tourist industry services persons…
Pan-American Life Insurance Group Completes Acquisition of Majority of MetLife® Assets including in the Cayman Islands
Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG), a leading provider of insurance and financial services throughout the Americas, today announced it received regulatory approval and has completed its acquisition of assets and businesses of MetLife in the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Panama,…
Scathing comments in ICO Decision relating to POCS and ODG recruitment exercise
We set out below in its entirety the Information Commissioner for the Cayman Islands’ Decision ICO Hearing 21-2012 in the Portfolio of the Civil Service (POCS) and the Office of the Deputy Governor (ODG) relating to the recruitment exercise resulting…
