BSP board cracks down on bosses’ obligations

| 09/06/2025 | 85 Comments

(CNS): The Business Staffing Plan (BSP) Board has adopted a zero-tolerance stance on non-compliance and will not approve work permit applications from employers that fail to meet their obligations.

A government press release stated that employers must adhere to the conditions of their plan, as it is a mandatory requirement, and they must submit their annual updates on the measures they are taking to employ local people.

Under the business staffing plan rules, which apply to larger employers, the companies concerned must detail the status and conditions of their scholarship, internship and apprenticeship programmes as well as succession planning and advertising for vacancies.

BSP Board Chair Jaron Leslie said the board was committed to the “objectives of the Business Staffing Plan framework, which promotes fair recruitment practices, authentic training and succession planning efforts, and increased employment opportunities for Caymanians. Employers who do not meet these commitments will face enforcement action.”

Labour Minister Michael Myles, who, alongside his coalition colleagues, has committed to prioritising local people in the job market, said his ministry fully supports the board’s zero-tolerance approach to non-compliance. “These standards are essential to holding employers accountable and ensuring they meet required obligations. Our priority is to protect opportunities for Caymanians and to promote transparency and fairness throughout the recruitment process.”

WORC and the board are urging employers to act immediately to ensure that all documentation and progress reports are up to date and submitted within the required deadlines. Under the Immigration Regulations, employers must provide detailed records when a Caymanian applies for a position.

This includes supplying WORC with the names of all applicants, their qualifications, work experience and backgrounds, the reasons for selection and rejection decisions, the refusal letters and interview reports for each unsuccessful Caymanian applicant, as well as the job descriptions and resumes of non-Caymanian applicants.

Failure to provide timely and accurate updates on these elements will result in the non-approval of related applications.

All updates must be submitted to the BSP Secretariat by email at WORC-BSPSecretariat@gov.ky

Submitting incomplete, false or misleading information constitutes an offence under the law and carries a penalty of CI$5,000 upon conviction.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    Hope it also applies to the Brac

  2. Anonymous says:

    Law firms are the main culprits. Time to dust off their BSP and check for compliance.

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    • Anonymous says:

      And DEMAND the Chief Justice also perform her supposed role as regulator of the profession – not that anyone would be practicing Cayman Law anywhere, without a practising certificate, right?.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Who is actually posting these dumb comments about the ‘illegal practice of Cayman law’?!

        You can’t regulate what people do overseas. The US doesn’t purport to regulate who practices US Federal law; the UK doesn’t purport to regulate who practices English law.

        What’s the actual issue you’re trying to address? Are you seriously suggesting that Hong Kong – where all the major firms have offices – should close their offices, and demand that their clients get up in at 3am in HK if they are to speak to their Cayman lawyers?

        Or are you proposing that Cayman law firms should operate night shifts: have a 24/7/365 thing, so that HK clients can pick up the phone during HK daytime, but 3am in Cayman, and that’s how we will provide services.

        Are you special needs?

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        • Anonymous says:

          Why don’t you advertise yourself as a Solicitor of the Superior Courts of England and Wales, without being one, and see what happens to you?

          And why don’t you read our Legal Practitioner’s Act before commenting?

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          • Anonymous says:

            If you advertise yourself as any UK, US or Canadian professional, OUTSIDE of those countries, nothing will happen. This is because those countries aren’t special needs.

            What’s your point?

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            • Anonymous says:

              Not true. You will be closed down with extreme vigor. That is why every English Solicitor in Cayman has to include the words (non practising) after reference to those qualifications.

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              • “closed down with extreme vigor”

                No. You’re lying (or stupid. Possibly both). People can call themselves:

                “Supreme Architect of English Legal Rectitude and Eminent ENGLISH SOLICITOR of the Most August and Illustrious Superior Courts of Her Britannic Majesty’s Realm of England and Wales, Defender of Due Process and Vanquisher of Administrative Injustice”

                …And if they are outside of the UK, the SRA doesn’t care. Under section 21 of the (English) Solicitors Act 1974, it is a criminal offence in England and Wales for a person to wilfully pretend to be a solicitor if they are not on the roll of solicitors. This offence is not by its terms expressly limited to conduct within the jurisdiction, but its enforcement is limited to England and Wales, as UK criminal law does not have extraterritorial reach unless expressly stated.

                Section 21(1), Solicitors Act 1974: “Any unqualified person who wilfully pretends to be or takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is qualified to act as a solicitor shall be guilty of an offence…”

                https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/47/section/21

                The SRA does not purport to regulate the use of the title by unqualified individuals abroad (i.e., people not on the roll, pretending to be a solicitor outside the UK), as it has no enforcement power in foreign jurisdictions. Unless the conduct has a sufficient nexus to England and Wales (e.g., advising UK clients, misleading UK consumers, or being based in England and Wales), the SRA cannot prosecute or discipline abroad.

                I am beginning to strongly suspect that you are not in fact Caymanian. You are a Canadian, Aussi or Kiwi expat who simply a troll. You are pretending to be extraordinary, irredeemably lobotomised for the sake of making Caymanians look inbred and unemployable. May I politely suggest that you please STOP IT, and grow up. It is very clear that no one is actually as dumb as you are pretending to be, and the joke isn’t funny any more. You should show more respect for the Caymanians, and not pretend to be one.

                Pls fix. Thx.

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            • Anonymous says:

              You don’t appear to know the case of Martin Polaine, a UK barrister called in 1988, served as legal adviser to Operation Tempura’s investigators in the Cayman Islands. In December 2009, the UK Bar Standards Board’s Disciplinary Tribunal officially disbarred Polaine from practice in England & Wales.

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        • Anonymous says:

          ‘Who is actually posting these dumb comments..’

          You!

        • Anonymous says:

          You understand that making money from the unlawful practice of Cayman Law constitutes the proceeds of crime? Quite a serious offence last time I looked.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Agree time to dust off the BSP.

      One major law firm in GT has a Caymanian associate who has worked with the same firm for more than 22 years…surely the BSP must have covered the progression training plan for that associate.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Ah! Is this how you think the world works?

        You simply declare, “I AM A CAYMANIAN – BOW BEFORE ME!”

        And then, regardless of how crap you are, you will be given ever greater responsibility and money?

        I have a bridge to sell you…

      • Anonymous says:

        Do you understand the concept of a “personal ceiling”?

        Example: “JuJu’s personal ceiling should be working in McDonalds, but the atrocious political system allowed her to destroy Caymanian kids’ future by racking up debt”?

        Law firms promote people because they are worth promoting. The test is: “Is it better for us to promote this person, or let them leave the firm?”

        If people haven’t left a particular firm, that’s because it’s the best they can do. If they were good enough to be promoted, they would be promoted in their current firm, move to another firm, or start their own firm. That they haven’t done so speaks volumes.

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  3. Anonymous says:

    Will this include Dart companies? No I didn’t think so. They been ignoring the rules for years.

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  4. Anonymous says:

    There is as much chance of the BSP enforcing these regulations as there is of Dwayne Seymour getting arrested for DUI.

  5. Anonymous says:

    It’s what happens when one government department doesn’t do its job. Instead of shutting it down, they add another, equally useless one above below or alongside it to do much the same job to the same effect.

    Witness the department and ministry of education, both designed to do what a competent school administration ought to do.

    Which is why government spends as much per child as a private school fee and the problems persist. Whose fault is it? With that many layers, who the hell knows.

    Most things should be outsourced whenever possible. It’s not ideal but it’s the least bad option. At least it will be stopped at some point if it’s not working.

  6. Anonymous says:

    I hope someone in Cayman pays attention. Few are paying attention. Lawmakers don’t get it or don’t believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won’t realize the risks posed by the possible job apocalypse — until after it hits.

    “AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years”

    “ AI companies and government need to stop “sugar-coating” what’s coming: the possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, especially entry-level gigs”

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    • Anonymous says:

      No need for AI to do it, WORC is already doing it. Finally something the government can do more quickly and efficiently than the private sector.

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    • Billie says:

      private sector strikes again and blames CIG. If a few Private Sector companies would get its act together our unemployment issues would disappear overnight.

      look at what the private sector is doing to our 60 year old Caymanians kicking them out after 40 years of slave wages with no heath care and them complaining that CIG is spending too much money on healthcare.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Curse the private sector for its focus on efficiency and standards. We should do away with it. That worked pretty well for Cuba.

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        • Anonymous says:

          2:39:
          Your comment betrays the fact that you are ignorant of the underlying socioeconomic underpinnings that led up to the revolution.

          The socioeconomic conditions that led to the Cuban Revolution bear noteworthy similarities to the emerging discontent among segments of the Cayman Islands’ local population, particularly regarding inequality, foreign economic dominance, and employment disparity.

          Allowing the unfairness and disparities to continue worked pretty well for Cuba, didn’t it?

  7. Anonymous says:

    If all of these unemployed Caymanians are so suitable for the work force, then the Civil Service should hire them. Stop trying to force private businesses to employ the unemployable. While some of them are definitely qualified and are hard workers I’m sure, the majority are not and aren’t working because they are lazy, uneducated or unreliable and the more government ignores this and caters to them, the worse it will get.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Perhaps they could staff the National Lottery Department with them.

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    • Anonymous says:

      2:55. Yes the Civil Service should employ them to keep you safe. let’s see how long you remain in Cayman.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Your comment betrays the fact that you are ignorant of a significant part of the thrust of this initiative.

      One reason many Caymanians are “unemployable” is that they lack the training and experience for hiring or advancement. Part of the Staffing Plan mandate provides for the employer to set forth the training and internship opportunities that are being offered by the employer who is applying for a work permit.

  8. Anonymous says:

    All the expat’s that think Cayman will crumble if they leave or threaten to leave please make your exit any time now

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    • Anonymous says:

      All the qualified Caymanian brain surgeons please raise their hands

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      • Anonymous says:

        How many immigrant brain surgeons do you think we have employed on the island at any given time?

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        • Anonymous says:

          It’s a concept called an “example”. Presumably the point being conveyed is that there are no Caymanian brain surgeons with the necessary:

          1. Qualifications.
          2. Overseas experience.
          3. Aptitude.
          4. Attitude.

          Again, I’m speaking for the person who made that post, but presumably their point is that there all of the Caymanians who have (1)-(4) in different professions are snapped up by employers, and can be assured of lifetime employment to keep WORC happy and to avoid employers paying work permit fees.

          There are then tens of thousands more jobs which still need filling. For example, if there are:

          300 jobs for doctors

          But:

          Only 50 Caymanian doctors

          Then we need 250 expat doctors.

          It really shouldn’t be this hard to explain. What am I missing?

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        • Anonymous says:

          All of them

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        We do have an abnormal amount of rocket scientists.

  9. Anonymous says:

    The key feature of BSPs is that companies offer training opportunities for Caymanians. How many are honoring that? How often do you read that a company is seeking trainees or apprentices? Not often enough. Having trainees means mentoring. It is part of building our country, not just paying minimum wage.

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    • Anonymous says:

      It’s also frequently unrealistic.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Shamelessly stealing what someone else said here, but employers need people with the right:

      1. Qualifications.
      2. Overseas experience.
      3. Aptitude.
      4. Attitude.

      Employers can’t train ANY of those. It’s nonsense.

      Having this provision in the law is unfair to Caymanians, whose expectations are unrealistically raised. It’s like MLAs legislating to mandate that Caymanians can fly:

      “Upon attainment of the eighteenth anniversary of birth, every individual possessing Caymanian status ipso jure shall, without further act, deed, or ministerial intervention, be deemed to have acquired, vested and perfected in their corporeal person a pair of functional, flight-capable appendages (“wings”), and shall thenceforth be empowered, authorised and entitled to ambulatorily depart from the earth’s surface by means of self-propelled aerial locomotion, notwithstanding any common law, statutory, physical, biological or metaphysical impediment to the contrary.”

      You can legislate to make Caymanians fly, but that still doesn’t make it realistic.

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  10. Anonymous says:

    About time. I love it.

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  11. Anonymous says:

    I have hired Caymanians in the past. Because of what we do, we get the guys who have no education center on the island. They come to us with no formal training whatsoever. I feel for them, they have no chance at success because their government never gave them the opportunity to train in the field. Last 3 guys stole from me, one expat did to, so I’m not saying it’s caymanians. But we tried students also. They sit on their cellphones and do nothing. I do train as much as I can, but I can’t get the incompetence out of some people, expat or caymanian, those people cannot work for me. I just want what’s best for the company so the company can employ more people, that gives more opportunities to everyone. But I cannot employ people that do not work for their money regardless of where they are from. Your nationality means nothing to the bottom line. If I go out of business we all fail. We need a proper training facility in Cayman. That does trades and blue collar jobs. Led by a team of focused people that are doing what’s best for the island.

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  12. Anonymous says:

    You want the truth? Ask Deputy Premier Peanut how many Caymanians he hired at Burger King and Popeyes. IF he tells the truth and says hardly any, then ask him why. He will tell that they did not want to work at a fast food restaurant. Same reason they don’t want to be bartenders, waiters, laborers on job sites etc. It’s hard work and looked down on. Our cultural views are stopping most of the unemployed Caymanians working and we need to stop pretending otherwise!

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    • Anonymous says:

      They would rather be a bank teller making $2,000 a month than a bartender making $5,000 a month because a shirt and tie make you look smart, but being a bartender makes you part of the “help”. It’s shameful.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Ridiculous and out of touch with reality. Many people would much rather be a bartender interacting with people and having a good time, but can’t afford a loan/mortgage on $4.50/hr when banks refuse to consider grants as part of earnings. You are making people out to be villains when all they are trying to do is play the game in the way that the system is set up.

        Not everything is black and white.

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        • Anonymous says:

          Double or treble the minimum wage to CI$18.

          Corrupt Caymanian politicians (the only type: there are no expat politicians) have chosen to leave the minimum wage at poverty levels so they can profit from their side businesses and get kickbacks from developers.

          This is destroying Caymanians’ ability to build wealth, but – more crucially – get started on the job ladder.

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  13. Anonymous says:

    LOL. Nothing will happen. Cayman doesn’t do enforcement.

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  14. Anonymous says:

    As with most issues here in Cayman, the problem is always none-compliance with rules, combined with a lack of enforcement. People will do what they can get away with. You see it on the roads, in the schools, on the gossip websites. This is no different. Zero tolerance shouldn’t even be a thing, just enforce the rules you have and there’s no need for saying such nonsense.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Start by enforcing removal of illegal bill boards by PPM. Elections are over. The planning rules are applixable even for bill boards with the so called “public service announcements”. How can thanking folks for electing you be in the public interest?

      PPM as a party should take them down. Joey are you still the party leader?

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  15. Anonymous says:

    So essentially this government is saying they will enforce the law and regulations, how novel.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Well saying you will enforce them is not novel. Every government does it. But actually doing it, that would be a change.

  16. Anonymous says:

    Michael Myles and this government are going to absolutely murder small businesses because of entitlement culture.

    Businesses do not choose to pay thousands of dollars every year and go through the absolute NIGHTMARE of dealing with WORC etc to get permits approved because they want to. They do it our of necessity.

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    • Anonymous says:

      A few bad apples spoils the bunch!

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    • Anonymous says:

      BULSHIT!

      It is certain businesses that have an entitlement culture, and employers FREQUENTLY go through the permit process because they want to, not because they have to.

      I am a Caymanian (fully qualified) and have personally applied for a job – where the employer sought and obtained a work permit without disclosing the fact of my application, let alone the interview notes or the reasons for my non selection. The conduct was criminal. the consequences (for the company) non-existent.

      Caymanians ARE entitled (like everyone else) to have our laws upheld and applied fairly and evenly – and if businesses have been abusing the privileges afforded by our systems to them, let them bear the harshest of consequences. There are plenty of excellent businesses complying with the rules who can take up the slack if the unscrupulous are removed from participation.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Which sector?

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          Law, but it happens frequently, in every sector.

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          • Anonymous says:

            I don’t know any unemployed Caymanian attorneys. On the contrary, the large law firms are desperate to recruit Caymanians and bend over backwards to try to keep them.

            Also, if what the person above is saying is true, it would be extremely simple to report the law firm. This just doesn’t sound believable.

            Further, how would a failed application know what the law firm submitted to WORC? For example, if the law firm interviewed the following:

            1. Caymanian A.
            2. Caymanian B.
            3. Caymanian C.
            4. Expat D.
            5. Expat E.

            …and then recruits Caymanian C, the how would Caymanians A and B ever hear about that? Large firms hire people all the time. The same applies if the firm hires Expat D or Expat E: Caymanians 1-3 May get individual feedback, but what they won’t get is the private personal information about the other candidates, Caymanians and expats alike.

            It rather sounds like there are a tiny % of unemployable Caymanians who genuinely believe that they have a god-given right to get any job they deign to apply for. That sounds rather, what’s the word? …oh yes… Entitled.

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          • Anonymous says:

            It is happening in financial services. I am aware of a service provider who currently has a work permit advertisement on WORC for a senior leadership position when there are qualified, dedicated and hardworking Caymanians in that same office with over 2 decades of experience who can easily take up the position, but have been sidelined time and time again.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Dealing with WORC may be a nightmare, but the slave wages employers advertise there are deplorable.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Who sets the minimum wage?

        CAYMANIANS

        Who whinges that the minimum wage is too low?

        CAYMANIANS

        Whose children grow up without any work experience, and who later lack employment skills?

        CAYMANIANS

        Who needs to dramatically increase the minimum wage?

        CAYMANIANS


        ..
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        There seems to be a patten above. I can’t quite put my finger on it…

    • Anonymous says:

      Since only those with 15 work permit holders are required to have Business Staffing Plans, we aren’t really talking about small businesses here.

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  17. Anonymous says:

    Well done Michael. In the right direction! Keep this up, we the people will want more than 1 term.

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      With these kind of idiotic decisions, he won’t make it to the end of his first term. Businesses will be destroyed because of this foolishness. 90 percent of Caymanians that are unemployed are either unemployable, uneducated or don’t want to work. You can’t force businesses to hire these people to the detriment of their companies.

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  18. Anonymous says:

    There simply aren’t enough qualified Caymanians to fill all of the positions.

    All this nationalism sure feels warm and fuzzy, though.

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    • Anonymous says:

      There probably aren’t even enough unqualified Caymanians to fill all these positions. There aren’t enough Caymanians in relation to the size of the economy.

      But employers shouldn’t just pay lip-service to the law and especially the spirit of the law. Caymanians need to be given the chance, but the CIG/WORC/Community need to realize that businesses aren’t charities.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Not sure there are enough WORC employees to follow up on every WP application – or even a material proportion- and check whether the employer has actually disclosed whether any Caymanians applied, let alone all the other stuff about their qualifications, interview etc. 37000 WPs, people. Business as usual unless there is some serious change in enforcement. .

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      • Anonymous says:

        Do you know why WORC is so terrible? Because it is run by under trained Caymanians with maximum job security in the civil service. Oh the irony. Cayman has one of the highest Per Capita rates of people employed by government and still 99 percent of departments have the worst Customer Service on island. It’s embarrassing. They literally create departments out of think air to hire Caymanians rather than address the huge elephant in the room regarding the lack of education for our youth.

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  19. Anonymous says:

    Do these rules apply to SAGC’s ?
    Some of these work permit holders are doing a lot more and in other areas that has nothing to do with what they were hired to and what the work permit allows. They will never complain because they want to keep their boss happy while they are being taken advantage of although they too have ulterior motives which to become indispensable and allow their boss to engage in their own personal pursuits. They become the ‘look out guy’ whilst the boss out on his own pursuits. Always on the lookout for the boss man. That why they won’t hire Caymanians , they would report him in a flash!!

    CNS: The next time you include “I trust you will post this!” or “I don’t think you will post this!” or something similar (especially “I dare you to post this!”, which is the most annoying), the comment will be deleted, regardless of content, as I normally do.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Oh for F-Sake! This sh-t will happen anywhere.
      No system is free of recalcitrant.
      And I’ll tell you this… If the TWP is done away with, the Service Industry will be in shambles very soon. Ironically, CIG can’t afford to lose the revenue made from TWP’s.

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  20. Anonymous says:

    Enforce it, though. Do not make it just talk. It should be full compliance, if not, a hefty fine; and if they still fail to comply, a two-year moratorium on their work permit applications. When given the opportunity, though, Caymanians *must* step up and deliver.

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  21. Yea bobo says:

    This board means business! Well done to the Chairman and members for their diligence. Make an example of those large law firms and others

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    • Anonymous says:

      Especially the law firms, who replace with their own work permit holder ‘skivvy’.

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    • Anonymous says:

      LMAO – You guys ae so gullible, just keep listening to the sound bites and then the excuses in 4 years.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Why are you whinging about law firms? We employ hundreds of Caymanian staff – FAR, FAR more than we need, just to keep WORC happy.

      The support staff footprint here is massive compared to e.g. Australia where there are very few support staff.

      What exactly are you demanding?

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      • Anonymous says:

        You are a WP holder, support staff in a law firm and Australian.

        ‘We employ hundreds of Caymanian staff – FAR, FAR more than we need, just to keep WORC happy.’

        Really, then your WP holders can leave then.
        The royal ‘we’ does not impress.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Caymanian parents have resisted very strongly the notion that “my child” could become a plumber, electrician, car mechanic etc.

      These jobs, it was always argued, are for foreigners to do while “our Caymanian children” should not be denied the chance to take over the jobs held by expats in the law firms, banks, accounting firms, civil service etc, even when they do not have the academic aptitude to attain such positions.

      Parents are quite right about such opportunities needing to be provided, of course, but you will find it very difficult to get support from them for diverting children away from the academic curriculum and into “trade and technical” schools. Everyone wants to be a partner in a major law firm and retire in their forties or fifties with a huge pension pot. Sorry, it’s simply not realistic.

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      • Anonymous says:

        You nailed it about unrealistic parental expectations! Even when I was at CIHS, in the late 80s/early 90s, it was the same!

        People told their children they could be lawyers/accountants/doctors/etc just because we’re Caymanian. Some of those kids didn’t even put effort into high school never mind seek further education. Those students are now parents with unrealistic expectations.

        Those of us with the academic skill set for those professional jobs plus the ambition to learn/work hard have been able to build successful careers in our fields. Those that should have gone into vocational jobs but thought it was beneath them, still struggling with menial jobs. Plumbers, electricians, welders, mechanics plus so many other jobs that are well-paying, much-needed and good honest work are filled by expats because people chose to deter their kids from those fields.

        I have heard people say “it’s unfair” that a lawyer/accountant/doctor/whatever makes so much money but yet they have to take a measly few dollars an hour. Meanwhile, those professionals have invested 2 years in 6th form plus lots of money and at least 4 years in college, and then worked outside Cayman for several years to gain international experience (which clients demand for us to be taken seriously in Cayman), all while the minimum wage worker did no further education.

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  22. Anonymous says:

    Does any other country in the world have so many ministries, departments, boards, agencies, commissions etc.? Mind boggling.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Follow the incentives: they are contrived job creation scheme for the unemployable. This gets votes.

      Someone has just posted on another story a link to a 2011 review of the financial and human resource management system operated by CIG, by Keith Luck, Former Director General (Finance), of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He confirmed that CIG had too many agencies, created unnecessary cost and complexity, and needed to eliminate entities and centralise HR and finance processes. Civil Servants lacked IT and finance skills, and no one was clearly accountable for financial management.

      Nothing has changed. In 2023, Wayne Panton admitted that CIG was doing “social hiring” for the otherwise unemployable: https://caymannewsservice.com/2023/09/premier-says-civil-service-must-stop-growing.

      Civil servants have again recently reiterated locals lack the necessary skills: https://caymannewsservice.com/2025/05/caymanian-civil-servants-urgent-call-to-rethink-policy)

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