The Editor speaks: Government can’t handle healthcare and no one really knows if we are healthy
It is a shocking affair when our own government, or should I say, our own Civil Service cannot manage its own health care system. Auditor General Sue Winspear made this statement in her report ”Cayman Islands Health System”. “The government…
Cayman Islands Minister Archer responds to CICSA President Watler
Statement by the Honourable Minister for Finance & Economic Development on Co-Pay of Health Insurance Premiums by Civil Servants 6 May 2016 Madam Speaker, I would like to make a statement in response to the 3 May 2016 letter that…
Cayman Islands Cabinet gives green light for Office Of Ombudsman
Cabinet has agreed to the outline business case for the establishment of an Ombudsman’s Office. This gives a green light for work to begin to combine the Office of the Complaints Commissioner and the Information Commissioner’s Office to form the…
Fisher Wright is Cayman Islands Government Employee of the Month
Fisher is most helpful, courteous and willing. Fisher Wright is the Cayman Islands Government Employee of the Month for December 2015. Mr. Wright, affectionately known as Fisher Porter, is being awarded for being Most Helpful, Courteous and Willing when executing…
Cayman Islands appoints new Court Administrator
Bothwell Named Court Administrator The Deputy Governor and Head of the Civil Service, Mr. Franz Manderson is pleased to announce the appointment of Suzanne Bothwell as Court Administrator Designate. Mrs. Bothwell was named the successful candidate after an open recruitment…
Retirement of Ms. Alicia E. (Jen) Dixon Director of the Department of Children & Family Services
Statement by the Honourable Osbourne Bodden, MLA Ministry of Community Affairs, Youth & Sports On behalf of my colleagues and the entire Cayman Islands Government, I extend my sincere gratitude and thanks to a remarkable woman who has dedicated her…
New Year’s message from Cayman Islands Premier
New Year’s message 2015 Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP, MLA Fellow Caymanians, Residents and Visitors, Happy New Year. 2014 is behind us with all its challenges, disappointments and successes. 2015 stretches before us…
Cayman Children Carol at Government Administration
Students brought Christmas cheer to the Civil Service today (Thursday, 18 December, 2014). The year-two Savannah Primary School students sang carols in the lobby of the Government Administration Building, and decorated a traditional Caymanian “Willow” Christmas tree – complete with…
The Editor Speaks: Was the S155,000 for the EY Report money well spent?
If one were paying by page then ‘yes’ I would have to say, as the review of the Civil Service executed by Ernst & Young (EY) was over 260 pages long. The Report made 55 recommendations and it will be…
Cayman Islands ministries receive accolades
By Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP, MLA Minister of Finance Marco Archer, JP, MLA Deputy Governor Hon. Franz Manderson 12 November, 2014 Press Conference Ministries receive Auditor’s accolades Over the course of the past seven or so years there…