Archive for April, 2025
PPM wins most seats but fails to secure a majority
(CNS): 3:00am. With the votes now counted and the results in, the only thing that is certain is that there are several new faces heading to parliament following the 2025 General Election. But still to be decided is who will be the next premier and which candidates will be sitting on the government front benches. […]
Polls close with lower than expected voter turn out
(CNS): The polling stations across the Cayman Islands closed promptly at 6pm on Wednesday after 18,836 voters (73.56% of the electorate) cast their ballots in the 2025 General Election and Referendum. This was a lower than expected turnout, despite an increase in postal and mobile ballots, the attraction of the referendum and an early morning […]
Vote trickles in after postal-mobile votes counted
(CNS): People who took advantage of postal and mobile voting have kicked off the national referendum results with an early spike for the ‘no’ vote on the cruise question but a thumbs up for decriminalising ganja and introducing a lottery. It was well after 9pm before the first results appeared on the election site, indicating […]
Polls open as voters head out to cast early vote
(CNS): The polls opened at 7am on Wednesday, the General Election and Referendum Day, and by 10:30am, more than 8,400 people, almost a third of all voters, had already cast their ballots, including postal and mobile votes. The Elections Office is expecting a good turnout for the election and referendum before the polls close at […]
Activists make final bid for ‘no’ to cruise pier
(CNS): After six years campaigning against a cruise dock in George Town, CPR Cayman and other activists are making an all-out final push to persuade voters that cruise berthing facilities will be a disaster for the country and there are many more ways of improving the cruise sector. At the weekend, activists held a solidarity […]
The trees are counting on you. Vote wisely
Theresa Green writes: If the trees could vote tomorrow, we all know which party they won’t be voting for. And given that they don’t have the advantage of opposable thumbs, the more than 25,000 registered voters who do must use them wisely. Cayman’s environment is under the greatest threat it has ever faced, and the […]
UK court rejects CICA PR point system declaration
(CNS): The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London has found that the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal (CICA) was wrong when it made an “entirely abstract and theoretical” declaration that the point system used to determine permanent residency applications here is incompatible with the Bill of Rights. In an unusual theoretical case, Attorney […]
UPM Cabinet OKs destruction of critical marine habitat
(CNS) UPDATED: At a special meeting of the minority UPM Cabinet on 28 February, the five remaining ministers approved a coastal works permit to dredge 8,000 square feet of seagrass (turtle grass) on the edge of a marine protected area off Public Beach in East End, championed by Minister Isaac Rankine. The approval was given despite […]
Poll: Premier John John and other possibilities
(CNS): Tomorrow, voters go to the polls to elect their constituency representatives, but once that’s done, they must then sit back and wait to see what kind of government emerges from the horsetrading that follows. The only thing that most people agree on is that it’s unlikely that a single party will emerge with enough […]
Schedule set for pre-storm season bulk waste clean-up
(CNS): The Department of Environmental Health (DEH) will begin its Annual Bulk Waste Collection in West Bay on Monday, 5 May, giving residents a week to clear out homes and yards and set out big waste items for collection. While many have been distracted for the last two months by the election campaign, the start […]
Independents plan to be in a coalition gov’t
(CNS): Chris Saunders, who is campaigning to retain his Bodden Town West seat as an independent candidate, has revealed plans among several of the other 13 independent candidates to be part of a coalition government. Saunders said a group of independents has been getting together as “we don’t want a repeat of what the country […]
