Promotion at leading law firm
Leading international law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has announced the promotion of Simon Dickson to the partnership with effect from 1 February next year. Simon is based in the Cayman Islands office of Mourant Ozannes, which he joined in 2002. During…
Pipped at the post
iNews was first … well … except for the two Newlands 19-year-olds who slipped inside the brewery only moments before the newspaper’s Rolls-Royce pulled up at the front door, discharging a frantic driver. First to shout “I love to bock…
Tortuga honoured at business awards
Miami, Fla., – Marcus and Monique Simmonds, owners of Tortuga Rum Cake Company/Tortuga Imports, Inc. were honoured as finalists in the 2011 Jamaica Observer Business Leader Awards, held November 30 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. Started in 1996,…
Lucy admitted as attorney
Lucy Sleep, who recently completed her articles at Maples and Calder, was admitted as an attorney-at-law by the Hon. Justice Alexander Henderson in the Grand Court, on 30 November. Ms. Sleep first joined Maples and Calder in 2000 as an…
Walkers announces retirement of Chairman
Grand Cayman – (December 9, 2011) – Leading international financial law firm Walkers announces that after an extremely distinguished career spanning almost 32 years with the firm, chairman Grant Stein has decided to retire on 30 June 2012. Having joined…
Weststar announces launch of fibre project
WestStar officials have announced the launch of the company’s fibre-optic project. Because of limited bandwidth in its wireless spectrum, WestStar officials have been working toward installing a wired cable system which allows the company to expand its channel lineup. After…
Maples Group election results
The Maples Group recently held its bi-annual elections for various management positions. Henry Smith retains the role of Global Managing Partner of Maples and Calder. David Brooks continues on as Chairman and Scott Somerville as Chief Executive Officer of MaplesFS….
Ernst & Young funds ICCI chair
Ernst & Young Partner Mike Mannisto (left) presented ICCI Dean Scott Cummings a cheque for CI$18,500 which covers a three year period to help fund the academic chair for a full-time professor in accounting. “Our firm puts high value on…
Olympus probe figure heads to Cayman, relative says
Hajime Sagawa, the Japanese banker whose firms got $687 million in fees as part of Olympus Corp.’s $2.1 billion buyout of Gyrus Group Plc, has left Florida for the Cayman Islands, his brother-in-law said, a month after divorcing his wife…
Special edition Kittiwake watch
ORIS have released a Limited Edition DIVER to commemorate the deliberate sinking of the USS Kittiwake in Grand Cayman, which done in order to create an artificial reef. Priced at $3500, the watch is available at The Mansion in Camana…
