Archive for January 21st, 2015
UWC offers life-changing scholarship
(CNS): UWC Cayman Islands, the local national committee of the global educational movement, is seeking applicants for its 2015 selection process, which begins with a written application due Tuesday 3 February. Since 1952, the mission of the United World Colleges has been to bring young people together from diverse backgrounds and use education as a force […]
Lawyers claim data protection too costly
(CNS): As the Cayman Islands continues to wait on laws to address the legislative gap it has regarding protecting information, the legal profession has made it clear that it feels there is no hurry to introduce the proposed Data Protection Law because it will cost too much. One of many stakeholders that have been involved in the […]
Still no sign of clean full government audit
(CNS): The auditor general has stated that he will be disclaiming the government’s entire public sector accounts for the financial years 2011/12 as well as 2012/13 and that ongoing difficulties and delays are also impacting hopes of at least a qualified opinion for 2013/14. It is now almost 12 years since government produced a full […]
Job ad infractions continue
(CNS): The issue of recruitment advertisements in the local press is continuing to aggravate local job seekers still battling to find work. Over the last few months CNS has raised a catalogue of issues relating to infractions by employers who are trying to circumvent immigration and labour laws to retain work permit holders when Caymanians […]
Syed says he was governor’s office spy
(CNS): The former president of the local university has claimed that between April 2003 and September 2008 he was undertaking “sensitive investigations” on behalf of the governor’s office into corruption among public officials in the Cayman Islands. Hassan Syed states that he also helped broker a deal with the former police commissioner, Stuart Kernohan, and the […]
