Cayman Islands: Traffic enforcement leads to 11 DUI arrests and numerous tickets, including 66 for speeding
Traffic enforcement operations this past week have resulted in a number of tickets issued for various offenses, in addition to several DUI arrests. From Monday, 7 May to Sunday, 13 May, officers have issued 66 speeding tickets, along with 36…
Kelsey Grammer to speak at Cayman Islands annual charity Olympian gala
The 2018 Flowers Sea Swim’s annual charity dinner will be hosted this year by the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre at the Grand Cayman Marriott Resort on Thursday June 14th. The Cayman Islands Crisis Centre has just confirmed Golden Globe and…
New York Bankruptcy Court permits discovery requests In Chapter 15 Case despite potentially conflicting Cayman Islands law
From JD SUPRA On April 17, 2018, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) issued a decision requiring CohnReznick LLP (“CohnReznick”) to produce documents requested by the foreign representatives (the “Foreign Representatives”) in the chapter…
The Editor Speaks: Don’t blame me. It was you who gave me the job
Reading the ramblings from Clement Reid, Director of the Port Authority of the Cayman Islands to the government auditors re his major breaches of recruitment laws and procedures, unauthorised spending and other personnel and general management infractions, I realised his…
WESO 2018: 24 million jobs to open up in the green economy
GENEVA (ILO News) – Twenty-four million new jobs will be created globally by 2030 if the right policies to promote a greener economy are put in place, a new ILO report says. According to World Employment and Social Outlook 2018:…
Ogier one of only 31 firms included in IFLR’s global “Firms To Watch”
Ogier is one of only 31 law firms worldwide to be named in IFLR 1000’s Firms to Watch – an exclusive list of the top financial law firms making headlines for breaking into new markets, expansion, increased market share and…
Facilitating access to health services for persons with disabilities in Saint-Lucia
OECS Media Release Tuesday, May 15, 2018 — The OECS and the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD), with support from the UNDP, recently concluded a training session on the production of basic prosthetic limbs. The training…
Conclusions of the Eleventh Living Standards Measurement Committee
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 — On 17 and 18 April 2018, the Eleventh Living Standard Measurement Committee (LSMC) meeting was convened at the Radisson Hotel in St. George’s, Grenada. As the steering body for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)-funded Enhanced…
China, Trinidad and Tobago pledge pragmatic cooperation
From XINHUA NET BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held talks with Prime Minister Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago on Monday, and they agreed to expand cooperation in infrastructure construction, finance and other areas. Li said…
Latin America and the Caribbean should tap into big data to reduce the cost of measuring poverty
By Luis Tejerina and Juan Miguel Villa From IDB According to the US government, the 2020 census could cost as much as $15.6 billion, or $49 per inhabitant. While in developing countries, according to a study of 77 countries carried…
