Lawyers reveal challenges to permanent residency refusals
(CNS): A firm of local attorneys has revealed that they are helping at least five applicants who have recently been refused permanent residency with appeals to the tribunal, where the detailed reasons for refusals will be revealed. In what has become a regular newsletter update to its clients that have been going through the process of applying for permanent residency, the lawyers said that 39 of their clients had been granted permanent residency and only two refused.
One of those who has been refused has appealed and the second is considering an appeal. But the lawyers also said another four applicants who were not clients during the application process who have been refused have come to the firm to assist with their appeals, and they expect the number of appeals to grow.
The local firm said it expects the details of the refusals will not only help in the individual cases but “for the first time provide us with insight as to the approach those considering the applications are taking from a practical and policy perspective. We are yet to receive any details of the reasons underlying any refusals,” they stated in the emailed update.
The lawyers also said they were impressed by the efforts and dedication of the team tasked with confronting the backlog and that updates from the Department of Immigration were forthcoming and that the board and admin staff were now reviewing applications from 2015, demonstrating that the department is now on top of the backlog.
According to the latest statistics from the immigration department, the staff and board have completed over 300 applications but around 800 remain. The rate of approval currently stands at around 44% of applications.
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This argument, all the anger, the this side vs that side, it all comes down to one thing = education and experience. I love Cayman and it’s true indigenous people, but your lack of education and experience is hurting your heart. There is no perfect land, no where, and your island is no different. But until there’s a broader sense of view, which comes from education and experience, your argument will always be destined to fall on deaf ears.
Ah the old excuse of the employer justifying their abuse of our employment laws and regulations to retain their position or that of their friends.
What would you do about the Caymanians who are parasites on the state? All ok?
Well we can do a lot more to stop the ones coming here by plane instead of pain.
They’re not Caymanian – they’re Macamanians! Many wise people in the community warned against “importing poverty”, but that’s exactly what we did! How do you go from 600 receiving aid across all categories to over 6,000 and rising if exactly what we said was going to happen hasn’t happened. It very much has.
2021 Ezard Miller will become our premier and he has the alility and the will to lead us caymanians out of this unstainable mess. Caymanians time is running out and if we don’t fix this at the next election we are doomed.
You have no idea what you are talking about. He will take you to Jamaica and Bahamas status..
That Pied Piper will lead the mediocre off the economic cliff edge.
So sad, They have more rights to my little island than the people who are born here. if your PR is denied just leave, go home. why would you put all your eggs in one basket knowing that there is a possibility for your application to be denied. you should have still made proper arrangements should you have to leave.
This comment has to be the most ridiculous thing. Some people come here to ensure that they and their family can have a decent life. You shouldn’t make negative comments because you don’t know people’s reason. Suppose Cayman was like Jamaica, Honduras or the Philippines (not even them because even people from the UK and America come to reside here) and you had a family you had to take care of and prevent from starving or what sort i’m pretty sure you would leave the island to go find better and you would be mad for people to make certain types of comments like this bashing you and your loved ones when you’re doing nothing but trying to probably feed them and survive and want better for themselves. Stop being ignorant and turning Cayman into a place of racism and be glad we have people that can come here and put their pride aside to work jobs us Caymanians would never even consider taking because we think everyone owes us everything just because we/re Caymanian. People on this island talk about Donald Trump and America’s situation but fail to realize they are no better.
Leave us Americans out of your squabbles.
Americans are included by default, look at what percent of Cayman wealth is due to Americans. Cut off that source and you can go the way of Cuba.
Good luck, and look us up when you can claim 95% of your products are “made in Cayman”, not “made in the USA” or derived indirectly from american ingenuity and invention.
No worries that soon come. Want to be disrespecful and always critize us without any clue how hard we worked to make Cayman what it is today. Respect begets respect.
Your response makes zero sense. Useless.
“How hard you worked”? The workers I see sweating today ARE NOT Caymanian.
Grow up!
That is precisely the point. They have rights, human rights, rights to know what and why things are happening, and these rights are all common in the real world. Expats don’t have rights, we can’t vote, can’t complain too loudly if we don’t like the way its going (except on here),and unless its something very serious would not think about suing government entities because you know you are on the next plane out if that happens. So when these type of cases happen, you know it is serious. People have spent a fortune doing everything correctly towards PR and feel they have been mislead. Clearly some may be trying it on, not everyone is an angel. Your criminals have learned how to sue and appeal as well, but that’s OK? If you don’t like it, challenge it, or get together with people of like mind and challenge it and the court will tell you what the verdict is after due consideration. But don’t you dare tell me you have more rights than expats, that is complete BS.
REALLY ????
Yeah really. Go on – give some examples of legal rights expats have that Caymanians don’t. I cannot think of one. Other than the right to have a gay marriage recognized.
The legal right to withdraw your pension money and your employees contribution money out and spend it before you are 65.
You said one example.
The ability to get a Cayman passport without being married for 8 years ( for spouses of Caymanians). It only takes 3 years for certain classes of expatriate.
The ability for your spouse to get a work permit (the spouses of Caymanians cannot).
The ability to have certain categories of relative as dependents (Caymanians cannot).
This is only Caymanian vs them when the ungrateful guests who were given an opportunity sue the country which gave them it and when the guests circumvent the laws to retain jobs for themselves or other guests.
It’s also Caymanian vs ambulance chasing lawyers and Caymanians vs Alden who has made the guests the entitled.
Alden has definitely caused the divide by giving away too much. One of the weakest and most destructive leaders Cayman has ever had.
I have reviewed all the blogs on this subject but let us go back to the late sixties when there was not a lot here. A few Brits came here with nothing and took the risk that a promising financial centre might take off. Had it not they would have returned home to start all over again. Those people went about their business in training Caymanians in the financial industry. However they also got involved in local affairs. They started a theatre and numerous sporting clubs encouraging Caymanians in getting involved. Without them there would be no football association ( sadly up the creek due to Webb and his mates), no cricket association, no tennis club, no field hockey club and no rugby club.
So just rest a while and thank the expat pioneers that made an effort to integrate locally and make a difference.
Chris you are right, but back then there was a whole different kettle of fish. They were respectful and we all got on well together. People like Bruce Campbell, Ian Paget Brown, W.S. Walker, Mike Austin and yourself were fine people as far as we could tell. Unfortunately things are different now, and yes, our people are not as docile as we used to be and are beginning to agitate for our very survival. My fear is that it might get worse before it gets better.
You know I think those people have PR..so quit spouting off irrelevant rhetoric..it is every governments responsibility to promote the interests of its people. Giving ungrateful, litigious and selfish people the right to be a citizen is not really in the best interests of our citizens. Nor is lenient work permit policy that provides nothing but the lowest level jobs for their people. Alden has and continues to give away all opportunities for Caymanians. He is at best weak and naive…at worst he is intentionally limiting the opportunities to inflate his own position among his people.
I agree Chris.
True, Mr Johnson, but your message is not accepted by the disgruntled failures like Bernie whose only success since he left high school is to get a job as an MLA, something he owes entirely to Mckeeva Bush. The symbiotic relationship between Caymanians and expats which was welcomed 40 years ago is not recognized now by the ignoramuses like Bernie, Ezzard and Arden and some of their more pathetic followers.
Chris back then things were different. You and your colleagues came and yes assisted with building this country. However, the difference is that you are now living in your big mansion and retired quite well and the same caymanians and Jamaicans that help you and your countrymen are struggling just to pay their light bills or don’t even have a home now fast forward to current situation, same principal applies and this is why we must look out for own as history has shown, you and your fellow countrymen will always have the whip cream on the top and the natives if lucky will get the plates and bowls to wash.
Unfortunately Columbus you have no idea. Whilst I may have a home, having worked here for the past 49 years I have supported the community which includes the rotary club and remain the treasurer after 10 years. I continue to support the more unfortunate and several charities. I have always given back to the community and expect no reward. Check the Compass for a few articles.
Give me a call if you wish to have a chat. I am in the yellow pages.
I also contributed to the recent hurrican devastation. Did you?
BS Columbus. Mr Johnson has used his hard earned money to give back to Cayman in a way that many greedy rich born Caymanians have not done. Have you ever bought fish at the place on the waterfront in town he owns and makes available to residents and tourists alike? It’s a real draw for tourists…a nice picture of the real Cayman.
Mr Johnson has not retired. Check his website. He does a lot of pro bono work and specializes in assisting people who have been defrauded, in particularly Caymanians. He never bought a house overseas and considers Cayman his home.
Why knock him. Go meet him and debate, you will be surprised.
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I want to know why people want to stay here but still complain about Caymanian’s and why they want to change cayman it. Why is it that their children after umpteen years still talk like English men or North Americans etc. Why cant expats understand why Caymanians feel like strangers in their own Country. When we go places we rarely see anyone we know. This is a small place and simply cant accommodate the whole world. You are destroying the very thing you like about this place.
But you complain about your ‘uppity’ countrymen that go away for higher education and come back without the patois!! Maybe it sounds more educated not to use the island ‘slang’? Cha!
So 1:25pm we come back to Why do you want to live here. And by the way its “Yall” that talk funny.
As a Caymanian in the Cayman Islands, I am not the one with an accent.
Exactly. Time longer then rope but getting shorter. We need to take control of our islands back.
Why is it Caymanians who go to the States for a year come back talking like Americans 8:05?
fronting.
Because sometimes accents can sound uneducated even if they are well educated. Many southerners in the US sound like uneducated hillbillies. Business-wise I think it makes more sense to speak as intelligible as possible. Sounds more convincing that you indeed are educated. We have much proof of this with our MLS’s. I cringe when I hear some of them. And Mac’s little ism’s from his back country that endear him to his ‘fam’, sound like a backwoods ol’ coot.
Let’s try not to make this an expat v Caymanian thing. I’m a Caymanian professional living in England and trust me the sentiment is the same here. They think its unfair for expats to come to England and get jobs that English people should have. They think its unfair that so many foreigners can come to England and become British which then makes it harder for non-paper British to get opportunities. The anti-immigrant sentiment isn’t a Caymanian thing, its worldwide and a lot of the English people in Cayman know it exists in their own country yet have no issue making derogatory comments about Caymanians with the very same view. Try coming to England and telling an English person maybe their education system and system of welfare handouts is why they cannot get good jobs. Maybe its their lazy prefer to drink beer every day attitude? Maybe its the way English kids are being raised? They won’t hear that, no its the foreigners that are ruining their country.
The only difference with my story is that I actually take the time to train the English people I work with – yes train THEM because sadly they cannot compete in their own country – and I am happy to do it. I recognize the blessing I have I being here and I pay it forward. You see, I have seen both England and Cayman and even though expats get on here and complain about Caymanians they do not under any circumstances want to come back to their own country – back to:-
1. Washing machines in their kitchens – wtf kind of madness is that? No utility room? Smh
2. Paying taxes and earning less.
3. Jammed together on public transport.
4. A house in London valued at £500k is still small, tiny little back garden and one street over from hell lane. That money in Cayman gets you South Sound views baby, big sprawling house, big garden.
5. Food…..well I don’t need to say anything more.
Truth is, they can put down Caymanians all they want, they just don’t want to leave and living in YOUR country whilst coming from Cayman I get it!
Its simple stop giving out work permits and let Caymanian do their jobs. All expats should leave and let Cayman sort out their immigration problems.
I thumbs upped as I want you to leave…don’t go away mad…just go away
Hilarious
you have to be the most bitter person alive? ok since you’re so great at being a Caymanian, why dont you go apply to burger king or Wendys or one of those places to work? no right but you bash the people that are starving or suffering from poverty or who spent sleepless nights in school and work to change the world and probably help YOU or one of your loved ones (lawyer, doctor, etc) you probably dont even have those qualifications but you’re Caymanian so you should have everything right? ignorant.
So you’re lucky to be there but no one from there would go back for the reasons you mentioned. Isn’t where you live just like your hair – you’re never satisfied? Grass is always greener? I liked having everything within walking distance when I lived in London; I liked the seasons; I liked being able to buy anything and everything online. Make no mistake, in every Englishman’s heart is England. They come here when they tire of the things you mentioned or because they want to lead active lifestyles or what have you, but what they really want is to be making the money they make here, up there, after tax. Most of them make far, far above the average family income while working here. Money gets tight, sure, with school fees and so on, but another 20k is coming in just a couple of weeks, after pension. Washes away all the aggravation of living here like a wave on the beach. On that kind of salary, your only financial problems are humblebrags – ‘our renovation is over budget’ sort of stuff. Here you can pay to have everything done for you – don’t have to look at restaurant bills – regular holidays to wherever you please – buy whatever groceries you want – live wherever you want – the list goes on. But don’t think they wouldn’t really, really like to have all those perks in the UK. They’re just much, much more expensive.
You live in cuckoo land if you think we all make $20,000 a month. Far from it.
That’s precisely where I live, but its proper name is the legal profession.
Yep thats why I never buy into similar claims about Caymanians and never have. Its the same nonsense. Good to see that travel broadens the mind.Everywhere I have lived as an Expat its the same stuff – lazy locals. Everyone can’t be lazy everywhere.
the locals can…
I would never miss the food in Cayman.
So to reiterate then, you don’t want to make this a Caymanians v Expats thing, but Caymanians in England are great, and English people in Cayman are dumb whiners. OK got it. Thanks.
Omg am dying laughing at our outrage over kitchen washing machines…. Twas far from utility rooms we was raised… 😉
So in criticising English immigrants to Cayman for their sweeping generalisations about Caymanians you decided to write a post making sweeping generalisations about (circ) 40 million English people – interesting approach to making a point.
The UK consists of 65,000,000 people, Cayman of 65,000, or roughly 0.1% of the UK population. Here in Cayman you can pick up general consensus very quickly, due to small numbers, in the UK, you cannot. Everyone I know (with one exception) understands that owing to its past the UK is and always will be multicultural. You cannot turn back the clock on that. Black, white, Indian, Chinese all get along most of the time (with a few exceptions-a few facist white people mostly). The issue a lot of people had was not with immigrants (indeed they recognize openly they will not do the hotel, barman, restaurant etc jobs), but that a small number of immigrants abused the housing and health system without ever having worked in the UK, which was preferential treatment over Brits. The government housed them, but could not house their own, and the health system is collapsing for that as well as other reasons. The fault was with the British Government, no one else, and that is why there was a backlash. Everything else is fairy tales. Here- majority of Caymanians hate the expats, and most of them even hate each other.
England is multi-racial. It is not however destined to be multicultural. It assimilates people.
You ain’t neva lie.
– Who
You all are BIG mad about my post above but yet cannot refute the statements. While I accept England is in every Englishman’s heart, that sentiment can be found in most nationalities. When you travel overseas and meet Jamaicans they always speak of home with such love and pride. Its the same every where. My Caymanian pride isn’t anti-expat, it doesn’t have to be in order to be valid. While living and working in Cayman I was bombarded with so many negative comments about Caymanians and Cayman from expats and none of them cared about my feelings. So, when I moved to England and started to realise that the anti-expat sentiment exists here and it is quite prevalent I decided to post so that people might understand that it isn’t a mindset that Caymanians invented, its everywhere and also to highlight that a lot of expats in Cayman simply do not want to leave their upgraded lifestyles to come back to England – that is not a lie.
You just chose to ignore the argument. That’s your issue.
You know what I just can’t seem understand, why go to another mans country to fight for rights to stay there??! Like why? If you have been refused, why fight the government? Why appeal? When you put in the application you should have known there was no guarantee that it would be granted.
Maybe ot is because some of us expats have been here over 10 years, our houses are here, our friends are here, this is all our kids know, we love Cayman and it is home. Maybe we jumped through all the hoops and met all the criteria, ambiguous and obscure as they are, and thought our points were not computed in the way the law dictates.
This isn’t a case of someone going on vacation somewhere and deciding on a whim they’d like to stay. Some of us have chosen to rebuild our lives in this country, spent 10+ years setting down roots because we were told we would be able to stay if we met certain conditions. I’m not sure you quite understand how emotionally difficult uprooting oneself is.
You love cayman but not caymanians!
You segregate yourselves from caymanians because now you outnumber us and soon you will be fighting to vote! I already see it comming. This is Alden and his 10 year work permits! Now we can’t even refuse you residency! You came here on work permit no? You came here to work for a period of time and leave? Why buy land? Why build a house? unemployment can never be fixed when foreigners own and operate our recruitment agencies!
“You segregate yourselves from Caymanians” … That’s rich! I’ve been here over 25 years. Have NEVER been accepted and will NEVER be accepted. And believe me I have tried! Both at work and socially. Be careful what you say because many of your own people do not even accept YOUR own people. I have heard it with my own ear holes.
Speaking from Experience!!!!
I can attest to that too!
That’s really SAD! I’m an expat, mostly hang out with Caymanians, married a Caymanian, had Caymanian children, have kids in Govt schools, cook Caymanian food, dont have very many expat friends. People complain about Caymanians “not liking” them, but then all I see are the expats hanging out with expats and not TRYING to assimilate in the Cayman society — kids in private schools and do not hang out with Caymanians, Brits sticking with Brits in social life, expats never going into local restaurants or bars, etc. I live in Cayman and my friends would swear my family is 100% Caymanian. My kids dont have my accent, they speak like locals. The majority of expats just will not assimilate into Cayman and stick to themselves and THAT is what Caymanians complain about. You say you’ve TRIED. How so?
Thank you! You are the type of persons that Caymanians love and have welcomed for generations. In fact, you sound like a lady I know, she’s such a part of the community that many younger Caymanians don’t even think she’s not from here because the only thing from the surface that says she isn’t Caymanian is her accent.
10th Generation Caymanian.
Give us something to love! The few Caymanian friends I have will come out for a drink or dinner and we are all good. Ask Caymanian colleagues and they all go home at 5, and never ask if perhaps we might want to go out together. Its simple…just keep asking each other outside a work environment and then we might all understand each other a lot better.
Why do expats build houses? Have you even read anything about how this immigration law, invented and passed by your own countrymen works? If you want a chance at pr, you need to buy property or part of a business. In addition, you need to be educated, have a good job and $$$ in the bank. You are also told that if you do this and stay for x number of years, you have a chance at staying forever. So to answer your question: the law always said, as long ad I’ve been here, that I could stay even after 6 years if I did certain things. When the law changed to the points system, i bought a house.
Maybe you should have kept the snake in the cage until you got security of tenure if you were worried your kids having to move from the only home they know. 10 plus years of not paying taxes in paradise doesn’t seem like that much of a hardship…you’ve had a good run…now go home
Ah, but there is a guarantee it will be granted, if you meet the requirements of the law.
The people who came here and are applying now came here before the current system was introduced, which as you say, was (well) intended to allow everyone the same 10 years to meet defined criteria. When the people applying now came here, they would have been told they would need to be designated as key employees by their employers first, and then pass the old Points System where no one thought ‘I earned this because I’ve met the requirements’. Let me stress that: every applicant under the new Points System came here between October 2005 and September 2009; before McKeeva broke the entire system with Term Limit Extension Permits (remember those – TLEPS?) and before the Progressives tried to change things for the better. Fact is, people knew full well how the Board operated in the past and where the discretionary areas were in that Points System, and they put in their applications and crossed their fingers and toes. In just a few years we’ve gone from that, to this: a lower quality of economic migrant (people with difficult personalities, no exceptional talents, highly unlikely to innovate in our industries or make international reputations for themselves as their predecessors did), suing to live here because they can’t believe their luck. Tax-free fortune, work long hours so the money just accumulates (same thing they were doing back home just it was being taxed as well), and when they need anything Cayman is missing, they’ve got at least 25 days’ holiday, 11 public holidays, and 104 Saturdays and Sundays to use. More than enough to be getting on with. Good luck to you guys, I’m not saying I don’t understand your position – I have lived in 3 other countries. Just don’t be such dicks about it.
This whole mindset about “tax free fortune” is fricken ridiculous. It is VERY expensive to live in Cayman. So maybe I get to keep all my salary and not have 23% of it takrn in taxes at federal/state levels, but things here are 25% more expensive and that is an estimate in the lower side. It all equals out in the ling run after oaying $500 light bills, $55 to fill a gas tank, tons of money for internet service that sucks, $5 for a gallon of milk or loaf of hard do bread, etc etc. There is no fortune to be made here, especially raising a family. We are here 15+ years because we love Cayman, the island, the beaches, the people, the lifestyle.
Bingo! If they Caymanian people do not like the fact that so many people are qualifying there is one person to blame, and they do not work at immigration.
Well it’s not as if they just turned up and fought for the right to stay. Every one of these people had to be here for at least 8 years before even applying and with the delay have probably been here more than 10.
When they first arrived they were told 7 years and you go home if you didn’t get key employee. Fine and clear cut. Sure many of them got key. Then they are told you can apply for PR after 8, and if you invest, do community service, are not going to be a financial burden you can stay. So they buy a house, use the ready reckoner to work out if they are going to get the number of points, and apply.
Then after 3 years of waiting, during which time they continue to build a life here, and having made a life here for more than 10 years, they are rejected and told they have to sell that home and leave within 3 months, and Immigration don’t even give a reason or explain how they failed the test. The only way they even get an explanation on how they failed is if they appeal. You see the problem?
I can understand exactly why they appeal. They want to find out why they didn’t get it having been encouraged at every step to stay here longer and longer and made substantial financial commitments. That’s why they are fighting to stay in another mans country – they have been here so long and been encouraged to commit here so they think it’s now more their country than their point of origin. Don’t blame them for appealing blame the system that not only let’s people stay so long they become embedded but actively encourages them to do so.
Cayman is a close knit society you can have all the point but if caymanians don’t like you for what ever reason then you can get booted out.
Not true – those refused can demand reasons under s.19(2) of the Constitution without needing to appeal, which reads in full:
“Every person whose interests have been adversely affected by such a decision or act has the right to request and be given written reasons for that decision or act.”
Then they would know before appealing if their appeal would have merit. That’s what those ambulance chasers should be encouraging those refused to do – not run down to court (but where are the fees in that?)
The law gives you 28 days from first notification within which to appeal. Just how long do you think it takes for the immigration department to read and digest the request for reasons under the constitution, let alone respond to it?
Actually I know my way around this area very well indeed, and my response to you would be far too long, but your point is taken.
Why aren’t folks automatically given the reasons with the refusal? That would seem more fair.
I am sure Cayman is an island of immigrants, perhaps the only people that never wanted to come here was African slaves. Everyone else cam on their own free will.
Unfortunately, it’s due to the immigration department (which is headed up by Caymanians and almost all immigration officers are Caymanians) not doing their job in a timely manner and racking up a backlog of PR applications that has resulted in this ordeal. So why I agree there needs to be a limit / cut off point to how many people are granted PR and then Status you can’t really get upset with those persons applying or the lawyers trying help them succeed, you need to hold your Caymanian MLA’s and your Caymanian immigration department accountable for failing to do their job.
How many people hold work permits on this island? The law states that companies are to be 60% (majority) owned by a Caymanian. So in essence the Caymanian is saying we need to bring in foreign workers to do the job, the workers stay here long enough to apply for PR or Status and then complaints are made that foreigners are taking over and there aren’t jobs for Caymanians. The only way this will change is talking to your fellow Caymanians and getting them to employ Caymanians, if they need to be trained then train them, if they need further education then educate them, whatever it takes do it! It’s kind of like Americans saying buy “made in America” and supporting companies that make good in America. Cayman is only so big and the population needs to reflect this. Cayman is beautiful and a gem of the Caribbean but when it gets overpopulated, too many cars that cause traffic to stand still in our daily commute, unemployment and crime ridden it starts to lose its beauty.
Fronting is everywhere. The concept of businesses being 60% owned and controlled by Caymanians is a sickening lie.
There should frankly be an Anti Corruption Commission inquiry as to how it is that fronting has become so prevalent and the authorities refuse to enforce the law, even in the face of clear indications as to what is happening.
Like everything else going wrong in Cayman. It is not that we do not have adequate laws, it is just that everyone, including the government, seems to ignore them without consequence.
I personally don’t have a problem with “fronting”. It stimulates economic activity and hopefully can supply jobs to Caymanians.
It is a crime, and money laundering, and causes profits to be exported, and for businesses to have short term profit motives, but hey, to each their own. That is the joy of living in a lawless society.
anyone that comes here is employed with one arm tied behind their backs and a blindfold on. Caymanians are given every chance possible to progress in the workplace and to have your own companies, if you’re not landing those top lawyer and accounting jobs – ask yourself why? Could it be that the education system in this place is diabolical perhaps? If you’re that driven – start your own company, don’t be an employee, at least you can own 100% of your shares.
Garbage, being Irish or Canadian. Many times I have seen people with little experience become employed in an area with few qualifications and experience simply because they are Irish or Canadian.
Always “many times” or “I have a friend”, never a concrete example. Marl road myth.
Go look a few people up on LinkedIn and then their coworkers. Nothing mythical at all
When are the Caymanians going to have their case heard? Case being, ‘Opposing being placed on the reservation’.
Every fly that pitch on these three rocks have rights, and the born Caymanians have none.
Why can’t we find away to drain our swamps?
#hatelesslovemore
Its a crying shame indeed.Our politicians have repeatedly failed us. We have a dim future for our children and grandchildren, and with the high cost of living only the rich will be able to retire here.
If melodrama and self-pity were in the Olympics you would be a medal dead cert.
Anonymous
03/10/2017 at 8:40 pm
You are wrong. The key to your children and grandchildren’s future is education, work ethic and to avoid getting pregnant before 25+. Step back and have a look at the options. Make a plan. Have goals. And then work towards that.
What are your kids and their kids doing, huh??
You should start with the education part. Your education system needs work. That is more important than worrying about who gets your jobs. If you’ve got the education you won’t have to worry about that.
Drain the swamp 2021
The alternatives are far worse.
This is all due to the “hardly thought out” roll over policy. Go ahead and grant the PR to all who fairly and squarely qualify and change the immigration law. Going forward one five year permit should be granted, then the person must leave for five years and if they choose they can come back and start over. This is another piece of the PPM policy and legacy. Are they giving any thought to us and our children and grandchildren who we are scraping to send to university. Is the Premier and the PPM government satisfied with the welfare state they they have turned Cayman into. Have they no shame?
They could come back after one year. Agree with the 5 year permit though.