Archive for June 18th, 2025
Former owners of Margaritaville sued by liquidators
(CNS): Liquidators handling the collapse of the companies behind the Margaritaville Resort on the West Bay Road have sued the former directors in the latest chapter of a five-year saga of financial and legal turmoil. Hugh Hart and Jonathan Murphy, both Cayman residents, and Howard Sitzer from Israel are being sued for fraud as local […]
OfReg calls out Flow over lack of local resiliency
(CNS): The utilities regulator, OfReg, said Wednesday that Flow’s dependency on overseas systems and personnel outside Cayman is unacceptable after its TV service was interrupted here for the fifth day. The outage is due to problems at Flow’s regional offshore data centre in Curaçao, which houses and manages the affected TV systems for several country […]
Minister says small MRCU team doing ‘massive job’
(CNS): As the new health minister, Katherine Ebanks-Wilks, continues scoping out all her areas of responsibility, a morning spent in the field with the Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) appears to have been an eye-opener. After witnessing the detailed scientific work the team does in hazardous conditions to tackle Cayman’s most persistent pest, she […]
PPM breaks law with $220k overspend on campaign
(CNS): The People’s Progressive Movement has admitted breaching the Elections Act, having spent considerably more money than is allowed for the number of candidates it fielded in the 2025 election campaign and could be liable to pay a fine of CI$25,000. In an explanation submitted with the party’s election campaign expenses, PPM officials said that […]
DMS made $200k PPM donation, largest of campaign
(CNS): Cayman-based financial services company DMS was the largest donor of the official 2025 election campaign period, giving $200,000 to the PPM. While it is possible that other donors made larger donations to one or more of the parties before the start of the campaign on 3 March, the law does not require those donations […]
