Archive for March, 2015
NWDA disputes quantity of professionals out of work
(CNS): The National Workforce Development Agency has disputed the recent interpretation by CNS of data released to a reader about the profile of its 485 job seekers. The release of the information appeared to indicate that at least half of the unemployed locals were looking for work in what could be defined as white-collar, professional work […]
Deputy resigns from UCCI board
(CNS): Linford Pierson has resigned from his post as the deputy chair of the UCCI board and will be stepping down at the end of the month. His resignation comes just one week after Sheree Ebanks, the former chair, also quit the university board. Ministry officials said they were “engaged in the work necessary to […]
Business staffing plans should be public
(CNS): The public needs to have access to business staffing plans so they can see exactly how local companies are hiring, training, promoting or firing Caymanians, the independent member for North Side has stated. Ezzard Miller has tabled a private member’s motion that he hopes will be the first step towards real transparency and allow […]
Minimum wage figure to be revealed April
(CNS): The employment minister has stated that a report by the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee will be tabled in the Legislative Assembly when it meets next month, making it a public document and revealing the recommended figure. Tara Rivers said last Friday that she had received a copy of a comprehensive study of implementing a […]
Comic caper causes social media backlash
(CNS): A cartoon published in Cayman’s local daily newspaper on Monday caused a significant stir on social media when the joke appeared to backfire. Caymanian job seekers and many others took offence to the comic caper by the cartoonist ‘Caymanman’, a.k.a. the local entertainer Barefoot Man, and began calling for a boycott of the Cayman […]
Secret police probe blocks Tempura report release
(CNS): The Information Commissioner’s Office has been asked to once again re-assess a decision that a controversial report regarding a complaint about the internal police investigation, Operation Tempura, be released to the public. In the latest round in the ongoing legal fight by the governor’s office to keep this document secret, a judge has ruled that, […]
Government preparing another tyre tender
(CNS): The Department of Environmental Health is preparing another public tender to get rid of the massive pile of used tyres at the George Town dump. This will be the fifth attempt to find someone willing to process and remove the tyres as promptly as possible. Developers behind the proposed $360 million Ironwood community and […]
Dillon ‘dangerous’ say defence lawyers
(CNS): Attorneys representing the men charged with the 2012 daylight robbery of Cayman National Bank all warned the jury that the crown’s witness, Marlon Dillon, was dangerous and they could not convict their clients based on his ever-changing evidence. As each lawyer tore into Dillon’s testimony, upon which the crown has based its case, they urged […]
DG defends Cuban policy
(CNS): Deputy Governor Franz Manderson has defended the government policy on handling the arrivals of Cuban migrants, saying that it saves lives. He also pointed out that if the Cayman Islands continues to support illegal immigration and people smuggling we will be added to a black list by the UN.
Cuban migrants drank sea water
(CNS): Thirty-nine uniformed officers, including 21 prison officers and staff from the Cayman Islands police, customs and immigration, arrived from Grand Cayman Friday afternoon to transport 37 Cuban migrants, who landed at Cayman Brac Thursday evening, to Grand Cayman as a first step to repatriation.
Charges pending against hit and run driver
(CNS) Police said that a file relating to the case against a 49-year-old man for dangerous driving and leaving the scene of an accident in January is with the director of public prosecutions for consideration. The man is alleged to have lost control of his red Ford Mustang (Shelby) and mowed down an American couple who […]
