Gov’t appoints new faces to key boards
(CNS): Government has made a number of new appointments to various boards to oversee critical areas, including the employment of expatriates and the utilities regulator. According to the government’s gazette, Carolyn Thompson (Merren), Allan Wilson and Robert Whittaker have been appointed as members of the Business Staffing Plan Board from 1 May until September 2021. This is the body responsible for clearing work permits for some of the country’s largest employers and one of the boards often criticised for not holding employers to account over their plans.
John Edward Ebanks has been appointed to the Cayman Status and Permanent Residency Board, joining the existing line-up of 14 members, including government officials.
Cabinet has also appointed three non-executive members to the board of the Utility Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg). Paul Byles, Gene Banks and Philip Ebanks were appointed to serve from 18 May this year until May 2021.
Following the resignation of Dean Lynee as a director of the Development Bank, Bruce John has been appointed as the director for banking and Catherine Guilbard as director of economics to serve on that board until May 2021.
Two new members have been added to the National Pensions Board to serve until 30 April 2020. They are Leon Buckeridge and Decia M. Foster.
Sheena Bush has been appointed to serve as the secretary to the Refugee Protection Appeals Tribunal and secretary to the Immigration Appeals Tribunal until 2021.
Category: Politics
Can you serve on either of these Boards if you have a criminal conviction. Just asking for a friend
of course – this is Cayman
lodge members?
I was getting tired of just having letters, numbers and punctuation on my keyboards. It will be nice to have some faces on them too!
I am what you would call a paper Caymanian and have lived in the Cayman islands for 35 years, reared my family here, sent them to local schools, became very involved in the community, yet I am still not accepted. Its so alien to me that I am still considered an outsider. When I first arrived I was welcomed with open arms. I am still the same person but something has changed.
It’s you. I’m accepted just fine.
You must be from back a yard.
Maybe you acted like a jerk all along the way and no one cares that you technically got your papers now? Just a guess. I know lots of people like that (don’t socialise with them though).
It’s your compatriots who came here after the rollover with a mercenary mentality to play the income free tax, lax PR system and allow them to gain PR to use until their office sends them somewhere else, leaving them landowners and carpers on CNS and with millions in the bank. Oh, and then a massively overpriced house comes on sale or for front to subsidise this person’s new ‘Keeping Up with the Appearances’ lifestyle in UK or wherever. US$2,999,900 NEWLY REDUCED, XXXXX RECENTLY LEFT ISLAND, MOVE NOW
Have you made a real effort to integrate? Not saying that you haven’t, just a question for you to think about if you have not made the effort. I’ve worked in the financial industry here for 30 years, and I’ve seen many expats come here and jump through all the hoops to be granted status, but make no real effort to integrate themselves into local society. They go from their nice home in Snug Harbour or Governor’s Harbour, drive to their office in Camana Bay, then go right back to their enclave. They make very little effort to “mix”, save for the one or two Caymanians that they will use as references for status applications later on. Many have started their own financial services firms after being granted status, but they hire only either expats or other former expats like themselves. Check out the websites for any of the number of small fund services shops on island. Tell me how many non-status grant Caymanians you see working in them. My point is this; it’s one thing to move here, buy a home, and spend your money here which, of course, you have the right to do. Its something else entirely to adopt Cayman as your home, then make a real effort to integrate. And by integrate, I mean trying to make our society better, because this is now YOUR home too. Volunteering at public schools, becoming a mentor to young Caymanians, donating your time to worthy local causes, and hiring deserving qualified Caymanians in your businesses (notice that I didn’t ask that you give handouts). If we’re not all trying to do THAT, then we cannot complain when society erodes, criminality becomes the norm, and the old Caymanian social norms (like saying hello to a total stranger!) start to fade away.
@12:34 I salute you well put together.
Many immigrants to these Islands talk about Caymanians and their purported entitled attitudes, yet here we are today with persons who have not and will not accept that their anti social attitude towards Caymanians is substantially a greater form of entitlement, wanting but not giving.
The old adage of “ If in Rome do as the Natives do” clearly is not the panacea of social well being, rather, it is as you have rightly put it, integrating with and being in body and spirit an integral part of the community.
So at 1:56 you may have missed the boat, but I sincerely hope that if you have raised children in these Islands that they have not followed your thought process, but rather, as many of the children of immigrants raised in the time span you
have been here have taken a decidedly fierce and loving approach to these Islands they call home. This is evidenced every day in our communities.
when is the last time CIG changed its directors on the board of Cayman First insurance? People forget CIG owns substatial shares in Cayman First. They acquired it post Ivan when it used to be owned by CNB. Hon Mctaggart any updates on how the investment is doing?
Incredible that the only recycling CIG can manage is crony board seats.
Congratulations to all the newly appointees , and do your jobs well and make your Island proud .
No disrespect meant to any of the incumbents, but any indication of their knowledge, qualifications and experience that suit them to these important roles?
They don’t need that they are caymanian
Are they? How do we know? Have the Boards they are on properly vetted them? Has the Chief Immigration Officer formally acknowledged them to be Caymanian?
Fyi, if you have a a little stamp in your passport (issued by CI immigration) then you have been vetted. Most Caymanians have had to get this stamp to prove right to be Caymanian either birth or status.
And how many of these appointees have those little stamps?
Have they provided proof of this?
Paper Caymanian? Ghost Caymanian? ‘Real’ Caymanian?
Get off your high horse! If you are legally Caymanian you are Caymanian…period.
Still need a stamp or piece of paper to prove your legal status
Rubbish. Try telling that to ‘paper Caymanians’ and ‘ghost Caymanians’. Unless you can prove your family has been here since the year dot, no-one accepts you as Caymanian.
Ghost Caymanians are not Caymanians. That is the whole point. They are not what they seem.
News flash, no one is originally from here, every family is a migrant at some point….
300 years ago I would have agreed with you. Not the case now. There are plenty of families from here and nowhere else.
11:39 am, you are right, but those that came way back when, those days it was little or nothing here and they built these islands up, Johnnys that came lately , only came when it was already milk and honey here and they would not have came if it was still nothing here.
There is only one type of Caymanian, and it can be proved on paper.
The answers you seek can be found in the ballot box.
why such ignorance? give it a rest bo bo…