Celebrating the Elderly in October
Shaping the Future for Our Senior Citizens is the 2012 theme for Cayman’s Older Persons Month in October. Beginning with the United Nations designated International Day of Older Persons (Monday, 1 October) and spearheaded by the Department of Children and…
The Editor Speaks: The power disease
Information is power. When government officials share information with their subjects – the people they represent and have placed them in their positions of power – they rely on it to be true. The people’s way of life and their…
Cayman Yacht Seminar a resounding success!
The Cayman Yacht Seminar held during the Monaco Yacht Show 2012, “was another resounding success”, reports Greg Evans – Director, Global Safety and Compliance of the Maritime Authority of the Cayman Islands. Around 60 invited guests attended the Salon Americas…
Maples and Calder Global Managing Partner Appointed to AIMA Council
Maples and Calder is pleased to announce the appointment of its Global Managing Partner, Henry Smith, to the global Council of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) following a membership vote at the association’s AGM in London on 20 September…
Little Cayman Command Centre operational
Acting Premier Hon Juliana O’Connor-Connolly and other members from the Ministry of District Administration, Works, Lands and Agriculture (DAWL&A), along with Little Cayman residents and the children of that island’s Education Services, opened the extension to the Little Cayman Command…
The Editor Speaks: Rumours
“A rumour without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.” ~John Tudor Rumours have been buzzing concerning job losses at the Cayman Islands National Road Authority (NRA) ever since Brian Tomlinson, the previous director of the…
Cayman Government cracks down on illegal public vending
Vendors who set up shop in public spaces – such as beaches – without a valid trade and business license are breaking the law and, as of 1 January 2013, they will be prosecuted under Section 163 of the Penal…
Indebted Bulgarians Sell Their Homes to [Cayman Islands and other] offshore companies
The new scheme is meant to save their property from foreclosure Indebted Bulgarians have invented a new scheme to save their property from their creditors. They transfer their homes to offshore companies registered in the Cayman Islands, the Seychelles islands,…
The Editor Speaks: Has Bush snubbed the FCO, again?
Has once again the Cayman Islands Premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, snubbed the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in failing to deliver on another of his promises? It has been confirmed by the Governor’s Office the Premier has told Mark…
Terry Fox Celebrations raise support for cancer research in the Cayman Islands
Celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving early this October by joining Camana Bay and the Cayman Islands Cancer Society to honour Canadian cancer amputee hero Terry Fox – who at 21 years-old, attempted to run across-country to raise funds for cancer research –…
