Archive for August 5th, 2015
Viewpoint: Clubs have the power to change CIFA
Football Guy writes: Towards the end of August CIFA, the local football governing body, will hold its annual congress and elections. If it were not for the events of the past 4 months, we could let this event slide as another boring predictable election where the same people serving on the CIFA executive remain per […]
Caymanian to take up top CIG beancounter post
(CNS): One of the government’s senior financial officers, Matthew Tibbetts has been appointed as the accountant general after an open and competitive recruitment process, officials said Wednesday. The post-holder is government’s principal accounting officer whose primary responsibility involves the consolidation of the government’s entire public sector budget and financial statements. Tibbetts is a Certified Public Accountant […]
Developer’s power raises concerns
(CNS) With no fair trade legislation, the acquisition by a single investor in Cayman of so much land and business influence should be a concern for the government and the wider business community, an MLA has said. The purchase of Barefoot Beach on the north-eastern coast of Grand Cayman by one of Dart’s web of […]
Officials dodge key point in EMS report
(CNS): Public officials from both the health ministry and authority said they welcomed the independent report by Dr Dan Cass into the medical treatment of Zak Quappe, who died following a serious road crash in 2013. But in official statements following the Quappe family’s release of the document, neither government entity addressed the core issue that […]
ICTA decides against Local Loop Unbundling
(CNS Business): Cayman’s telecoms regulator, the Information and Communications Technology Authority (ICTA), has denied Digicel’s request for access to LIME’s fibre and copper network. Following a three-year debate, the ICTA has determined that the telecoms group does not have to allow access for infrastructure sharing services that Digicel had requested in 2012.
