Law firm fined $8k for passing over Caymanians
(CNS): A well-established local law firm was recently found guilty and fined CI$8,000 for violating immigration laws, officials from Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman have said. According to a press release, the firm failed to disclose Caymanian applicants during a recruitment process earlier this year. A WORC spokesperson told CNS that the firm was Maples and Calder, which has not yet commented on the conviction.
An investigation began after a complaint was made to the WORC’s compliance and enforcement unit. WORC then submitted the case findings to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), which resulted in multiple charges brought against the firm.
“This case underscores WORC’s unwavering commitment to promoting accountability across all sectors — not only in traditionally scrutinised industries like construction, janitorial services, and landscaping, but also within white-collar professions,” Deputy Director of Compliance Mervin Manderson said.
WORC Director Jeremy Scott credited the successful outcome to the diligence and commitment of the compliance officers. “We have zero tolerance for violations of this nature and will continue, when necessary, to pursue businesses who try to circumvent our immigration laws,” he added.
All businesses have ongoing legal obligations under the Immigration (Transition) Act (2022 Revision), the release said.
“Reports of non-compliance will be thoroughly investigated, and appropriate enforcement action will be taken where necessary. Penalties upon conviction range from administrative fines up to CI $20,000 or imprisonment,” it said. “WORC remains committed to maintaining the integrity of the immigration system and will continue to act on credible information to ensure that businesses operate within the law.”
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Yet another article, published just yesterday, highlighting that AI has made degrees worthless:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/13/student-debt-graduates-share-job-hunting-woes-ai-fallout
“Recent UK graduates burdened by heavy student debt report acute difficulty securing jobs amid a shrinking labour market exacerbated by AI-driven recruitment. Individuals with loans of up to £90,000 recount sending hundreds of applications—tailored CVs and cover letters included—with minimal to no response. Many face “ghosting” and swift rejections, as automated systems filter resumes based on keyword matching, sidelining candidates without AI-optimised profiles.
Graduates argue that degrees, even at postgraduate level, no longer guarantee employment. Instead, employers favour candidates with practical experience over academic credentials, leaving many disillusioned and concerned about value for money. Universities are criticised for failing to instil market-relevant skills or AI-literacy, leading students to graduate underprepared for an AI-transformed job landscape. This situation raises wider concerns about social equity and the mental well-being of young professionals. In response, many advocate for alternative routes—such as vocational training—and increased institutional support to bridge the gap between education and employment in an AI‑dominant era.”
Good article, but AI is just a symptom. The real crisis is oversupply: far too many graduates chasing far too few graduate jobs. Universities pump out degrees with no regard for demand, leaving young people indebted and underemployed. This worst problems is not technological, it’s just far, FAR too many people are wasting their lives by going to university.
Interesting comments below. They confirm what we’re seeing in recruitment. The traditional view that a UK university degree is a golden ticket to professional success no longer holds true, and Caymanian students should think carefully before following that path. Once a mark of distinction, UK degrees have been devalued by mass participation, grade inflation, and a disconnect between what is taught and what the job market demands. Over half of UK graduates are now underemployed or unemployed, and many would have been better off financially if they had never gone to university at all.
The cost of this mess is severe. UK student debt is huge, and most will never be repaid. Caymanians may avoid that debt by relying on family or scholarships, but even if you ignore the money CIG is wasting on the latter, the real cost is time lost in the workforce and years of opportunity sacrificed for qualifications that no longer guarantee stable (indeed, any) employment. In Cayman’s small, skills-based economy, what employers value is relevant experience, competence, reliability, not a framed certificate (or pretty PDF thereof). Sadly, you can’t get that experience in Cayman.
Caymanians studying abroad also face stiffer competition. UK graduates now contend with a global market saturated with degree-holders, including international students with equal or better credentials and more work experience. And as cheating via artificial intelligence is now impossible to detect, the credibility of qualifications is almost non-existent. Employers, quite rationally, are turning to other signals of merit.
Meanwhile, many UK universities have pivoted towards maximising revenue, especially from foreign students, rather than maintaining academic standards. The focus has shifted from education to income, and students often graduate with little to show for their investment. In contrast, alternatives such as professional apprenticeships, vocational qualifications, and online learning combined with work experience, often provide better outcomes with less risk. These are not however practically available in Cayman: we simply don’t need people at the bottom of the food chain, and we’re already lying to WORC by pretending that we can give them the experience they need to succeed.
Government scholarships should reflect this changing reality. Instead of funding low-return degrees in low-demand subjects, public funds should prioritise areas of national need such as medicine and education, with a clear link to future employment. Young Caymanians deserve more than outdated narratives about success through university. They deserve honest guidance and support to pursue routes that deliver real value.
In today’s world, university is not a reliable path to success, and we should stop lying to kids that it is.
All law firms are disgusting, why wanna work there, more interesting things in life to do than be a slave in a cubicle or sharing an office with a farty robot!
Lololol
A colleague just sent me this – the situation appears to be just as bad for graduate employment in the UK. It would seem that simply too many people are going to university:
>>> Beyond Cooked: The UK Graduate Debt Crisis – Alex Petrou, Substack, 10 July 2025 <<<
https://substack.com/inbox/post/167986180
Abstract: This article explores the growing crisis facing UK graduates, who emerge from university saddled with debt and face bleak job prospects. Despite rising higher education participation and strong academic performance, over half of recent graduates are underemployed or unemployed, while average salaries remain stagnant. The author critiques UK universities’ revenue-driven shift towards admitting international students—often on lower academic standards—due to capped domestic tuition fees. Meanwhile, fierce competition for limited graduate roles is exacerbated by post-study work visas. Student debt now exceeds £266 billion, much of it unlikely to be repaid, and functions effectively as hidden public debt. With taxation reaching diminishing returns, borrowing under strain, and inflation already high, the UK appears to be drifting toward covert debt monetisation. The article draws historical and global parallels to argue that Britain is entering a period of financial repression and social immobility, in which the costs of failed policy are quietly passed to the next generation.
The problem is that too many students are going to university and studying the wrong subjects which there is no market.
For example, art history, anthropology, gender studies, history, sociology, political science, etc.
Go to university and study engineering, STEM subjects, accounting, finance, health studies / nursing and one will have no problem finding a job.
Yes, the only degrees that are of value are vocational. This however does NOT include law, because (a) there are FAR too many law graduates; and (b) they are not equal – most of the people ‘studying’ law nowadays would never have even gotten a place to do art history, anthropology, gender studies, history, sociology, political science, back when standards were higher.
Each year in the UK, around 51,000 to 55,000 students graduate with law degrees. However, there are only about 5,500 to 6,000 solicitor training contracts and approximately 600 to 700 pupillages available annually. Competition is intense, as many graduates continue applying in subsequent years, swelling the applicant pool to well over 100,000. This means that fewer than 10% of aspiring lawyers secure a training contract or pupillage in any given year. The imbalance between graduates and available positions has persisted for years, creating a bottleneck that leaves the majority of law graduates unable to progress to qualification. Securing a place is thus not just competitive, but often requires multiple years of effort and resilience.
90% of UK law graduates sadly wasted their time due to being given extremely poor career advice.
See also:
** The great university con: how the British degree lost its value, The New Statesman, 21 August 2019 **
[…] Never before has Britain had so many qualified graduates. And never before have their qualifications amounted to so little. Each year, far from creating graduates of an unparalleled calibre, Britain is producing waves of sub-prime students – students who are nevertheless almost all being highly rated. As Robert Penhallurick, reader in linguistics at Swansea, put it to a House of Commons select committee inquiry into universities, which reported in 2009, there has been “a lack of courage, a failure to stand by the long-standing hallmarks of good academic work”. Richard Royle, senior lecturer in law at the University of Central Lancashire at the time, added in his evidence to the committee: “There is a conspiracy of silence among academics.” If standards had actually been upheld, Lee Jones, reader in politics at Queen Mary, University of London, tells me ten years on, “vast swaths of people currently going to university would fail”. […]
The UK is, at great future cost, bankrolling a university system that in no way resembles the world it was supposed to expand. Like a frog in boiling water, universities have been slowly transformed. “You get more and more uncomfortable,” says the Russell Group professor, “but you never quite jump out.” […] In the name of social mobility, an elite university education has been sold to successive generations of students. An emaciated, grossly expanded education has been delivered. “The real tragedy,” says Derbyshire, “is we’re wasting the money, and worst of all, the time, of young people. That is unconscionable.”
https://archive.is/2023.12.28-025655/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2019/08/the-great-university-con-how-the-british-degree-lost-its-value
** Is your master’s degree useless? New data show a shockingly high proportion of courses are a waste of money, The Economist, 18 November 2024. “Since 2000 the cost of postgraduate study in America has more than tripled in real terms… the average master’s student will bank no more than $50,000 extra over their lifetime as a result of their qualification, reckons Preston Cooper, an analyst formerly of FREOPP, a think-tank in Austin, Texas, who also considered fees paid and potential earnings forgone while studying. Worse still, students enrolled on about 40% of America’s master’s courses will either make no extra money or incur a financial loss… In 2019 analysts at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank in London, concluded that one-fifth of undergraduates would be better off if they skipped university all together.” https://archive.is/20241121181448/https://www.economist.com/international/2024/11/18/is-your-masters-degree-useless
** Average UK student loan debt: https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt and https://www.prograd.uk/blog/average-student-loan-debt-uk”
** The Times, Why students are so unhappy with Edinburgh University: https://archive.is/2024.12.01-005933/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/why-students-are-so-unhappy-with-edinburgh-university-sdjwkgdkr
** The Telegraph, Socialist university bosses have nobody to blame, 2 January 2025: https://archive.is/20250102173024/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/02/socialist-university-bosses-have-nobody-to-blame/
** The UK’s academic recession is in full swing, https://archive.is/20250311082309/https://www.ft.com/content/0ec7120a-5b78-43da-8016-0415dca99073
** The English higher education market is broken. New regulator powers should include the ability to claw back pay from vice-chancellors in the event of financial catastrophe. FT, 6 May 25, https://archive.is/20250507075943/https://www.ft.com/content/7514ea72-70f8-469c-ac06-dbc82c993b39
** FT, It’s a bad time to be a graduate – AI is only one of the many pressures facing university leavers, 6 July 2025, https://archive.is/20250707210427/https://www.ft.com/content/002a0943-f977-44bd-bc78-957c877dfed1
Most people with law degrees in the First World don’t get taken on by law firms. They are not good enough, and the law firm would be committing commercial suicide by employing them. It is no different here.
Law firms cannot hire anyone and everyone, regardless of ability. People aren’t guaranteed jobs. The sense of entitlement is remarkable. It’s not just Cayman, some idiots in the UK are just as bad: https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/01/law-graduate-rejected-for-a-paralegal-role-vents-frustration-on-linkedin/
Getting legal jobs is extremely difficult, and applicant quality varies massively. The quality of the law degree is therefore an important factor in employment decisions. As a comment under this article: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/poorer-junior-lawyers-being-forced-to-choose-city-says-top-labour-lawyer/5109936.article warned:
“This article doesn’t acknowledge just how hard it is to get a training contract at one of the magic circle firms or indeed anywhere that might provide help towards the cost of the time spent doing professional exams. Three friends of my early 20s daughter are aspiring solicitors with very good to excellent degrees from three different Russell Group universities. Each would interview well and each has funded a year’s conversion course. Despite many time-consuming applications, none have secured a vacation scheme place, let alone a training contract. One is now working as a paralegal and one in legal recruitment to earn money for the LPC.”
Another following comment noted:
“I was once the Training Principal at a City firm (not a household name) and there were about 100 applications for every single trainee place. Probably 80-90 of that 100 had ‘very good to excellent degrees from’ Russell Group unis. Of course all were applying elsewhere too, but the sheer volume meant the basic level of excellence you cite wasn’t enough on its own to lead to an interview. I’m sure it is the same at most magic circle firms, and at most (if not all) firms providing help towards the cost of qualification.”
See also the related discussion at Roll on Friday, here: https://www.rollonfriday.com/discussion/when-do-you-tell-aspiring-solicitors-pack-it
See also these 2010 articles (including the comments), warning how brutally competitive it is: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/jul/13/legal-training-law-students and https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/may/28/when-exploitation-acceptable
One of the comments under the last of those bears repetition:
“I wouldn’t bother wasting your time trying to become a solicitor, unless you have perfect grades and / or Oxbridge behind you, it’s just too hard to get in. Admittedly, I’m totally biased. I got decent A-levels, received a 2.1 from a red brick university, then went on to get the GDL and LPC. I had wrongly assumed passing these with a 2.1 equivalent would stand me in good stead. Hundreds of applications later, I’m stuck as a dead-end paralegal for a big firm. I intend to quit the legal profession and switch to a career where hard work is actually rewarded and there is a more settled career progression. Don’t think just because you’ve passed your law exams you’ll succeed. There are about 8000 LPC graduates, and only something like 2-3000 training contracts going around. The problem is compounded each year as more grads flood the market. For example, I recently applied to a high street firm in Brighton with a hand written letter, normally a bar to many applicants who can’t be arsed actually writing in ‘manuscript’. The firm received 150 applications for one job – and that was for a 16K job after a minimum of 4 years HE studying. The Law Society is a disgrace for allowing BPP and the College of Law to train up law grads, only to see their aspirations crushed along with crippling debts compounded on top of student debts when they can’t get a training contract.”
The Junior Lawyers’ Division surveyed failed Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduates, asking, “Would you have taken the LPC if you’d known how few training contracts there are?” Over 1,000 people responded, 72% of whom said “NO”. The 20+ pages of responses are a warning which should be read here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120803042324/http://juniorlawyers.lawsociety.org.uk/node/1213/results
E.g.
“Nobody should assume that a qualification equals a job” <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< THIS COMMENT HERE IS VITAL – THIS IS HOW THE WORLD WORKS EVERYWHERE
“I shudder as I read through these stories! The law is NOT a good career choice”
“Despite all the warnings and all the information available to students they just keep on coming and keep on paying the fees for the LPC – nothing has put them off.”
See also this 2011 article, and comments underneath:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/jun/21/legal-profession-aptitude-test-surplus, such as:
“My degree was a 2:1 from Durham University and I got a distinction on the LPC in 2004. […] However, I have not got a training contract despite years of trying. I am still interested in law and I work for a law firm, but I am paid barely more than the minimum wage. […] the problem is actually that there are already too many people passing as compared with the training contracts available.”
The comments have disappeared under that first article. They can be seen in this archived version here:
The comments are hidden under the first linked article, about the person rejected from a job in the UK. This version seems to have them: https://web.archive.org/web/20250616035324/https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/01/law-graduate-rejected-for-a-paralegal-role-vents-frustration-on-linkedin/
Many issues seem familiar from Cayman:
“My firm posted an advert for a paralegal role recently and got over 1000 applications in mere days, plenty of people with experience applied and had to be rejected.”
“Don’t take it personally, it’s just their commercial decision. I was rejected for the same role and firm you applied for and I’m a qualified solicitor!”
“2 languages that anyone can chatgpt/deepl now and 6 months at a no-name 11 man high street office aren’t exactly the MVP credentials he thinks they are”
“The PL acknowledges their lack of experience in their comment, but seems to fail to grasp that other candidates may have had more experience. Whether we like or not, prospective employers are taking a risk when they employ someone and it makes sense that mitigate that risk as far as possible by employing someone who is more likely to be capable of doing the job from the get go.”
“There are several variables the graduate might be overlooking. IW could have been well into the recruitment process by the time this candidate applied. Additionally, the candidate might have submitted a poorly written CV or been competing against someone with even more relevant experience. I feel that higher education often fails to provide graduates with practical career advice, leaving many of them feeling entitled to jobs that are, in reality, highly competitive.”
“In a very competitive situation like this, two things matter: what you possess; and how you communicate what you possess. Your frustration dear colleague is understandable. But it’s likely there were applicants more qualified or who communicated their qualifications better in their CV than you did. A bit of introspection and resilience will be more helpful to your career now. Proof is not predicted on the figments of one’s imagination or phantoms. It is rather based on arguable facts.”
“There are too many candidates for firms to choose from. Simply put there were candidates with much more relevant experience. I’m confused as to why he posted this: rejection is normal (they need to get used to it, as everyone does, to be frank) and getting rejected from one firm doesn’t mean you’ll unsuitable for other firms.”
“Entitled. I see it all the time. Graduates these days expect the world and don’t realise that there are thousands of similar people.”
Who cares, find something else to do!
Exactly. Law is NOT a good career option, and students should be warned at the outset NOT to pursue it.
[Summary. Financial services fund Cayman, including the amorphous CIG/World Class Clown Service/NAU blob. Therefore , the only people who matter are financial services firms’ CLIENTS. 60% of Caymanian kids leaving school are functionally illiterate and innumerate. Accounting firms, etc. simply cannot employ such people, and even when they do CLIENTS GET TO CHOOSE who they instruct.]
There are a lot of accusations against Maples in the comments section. I did a quick Google though, and they do more than most: https://maples.com/careers/students-and-graduates/scholarships
Here’s a reality check:
Expats in professional services firms fund Cayman, and pay for EVERYTHING here. These are ferociously competitive industries, and clients have freedom of choice as to who they instruct. Mutatis mutandis as to in which jurisdiction those clients choose to invest. Therefore, in that free market, CLIENTS’ preferences are paramount:
(1) Caymanians are free to compete with non-Caymanians to sell their services, and clients have the freedom of choice as to who they instruct.
(2) International experience is however vital, both substantively and presentationally (e.g. such people are both objectively superior and look superior to clients), and this is why clients choose to instruct them.
(3) The reason Cayman is the most successful Caribbean territory is specifically because Cayman has commendably not indulged in xenophobic, self-sabotaging economically suicidal rhetoric and protectionism. As the comments under this article indicate, some people find it hard to resist such emotions.
Accountancy and law firms must recruit expats, because there are not enough capable Caymanians. WE DO NOT WANT TO PAY FOR WORK PERMITS, AND WE WOULD RATHER HIRE CAYMANIANS. But not enough of you of sufficient caliber are available. Our competition is Hong Kong, the Bahamas, Bermuda, BVI, Singapore and Dubai. Cayman’s golden goose, financial services, is not guaranteed to keep the money flowing, if the islands decide to self-immolate in a frenzy of protectionism. Competitor locations compete by employing both expats, and highly-skilled locals. Cayman is therefore utterly dependant on highly-qualified expats, unless Caymanians perform better. How’s that’s going, after Roy Bodden’s famous Caribbeanisation of the Cayman education system? ⬇️
— “Premier Wayne Panton has said the civil service headcount cannot continue to grow… Panton said that the government must move away from “social hiring”” https://caymannewsservice.com/2023/09/premier-says-civil-service-must-stop-growing
— “It’s the duty of communities all over the world to give their children an education to a standard that enables them to become full members of their home communities. It takes a village, as they say. By that measure, Cayman’s government has failed, and continues to fail. Some of our Islands’ children succeed, but most don’t…” https://www.caymancompass.com/2016/01/21/barlow-education-versus-protection/
— “Cayman’s current representatives have their knickers in a twist, trying to resolve the consequences. An uncomfortable number of the tribe’s members are coming up short in the following respects:-
· Unschooled beyond a minimal level
· Unemployable because of an anti-work attitude
· Untrained and undisciplined in the management of their personal finances
· Intolerant towards foreign ethnic groups
Those deficiencies have steadily worsened in recent years; the drift to full dependency on government handouts has passed the point of no return. There is no apparent solution on the horizon. It looks as though, in time, our “native” citizenry will become overwhelmingly dependent on welfare.” https://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2015/05/caymans-entitlement-culture.html
If Caymanians want better jobs, they must perform better. That starts early. See:
(1) 2021: “Almost 60% of Year 11 students miss 2021 exam targets …according to the Data Report for the Academic Year 2020-21, just 40.3% of Year 11 students achieved the national standard target of five or more Level 2 subjects including English and maths.” https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/04/almost-60-of-year-11-students-miss-2021-exam-targets.
(2) 2023: “A data report released by the education ministry reflects a decline in external exam results…with standards in mathematics dropping back to 2017 levels… despite the significant investment that has been made in public education… Only 27% of all students at Key Stage 2, when they leave primary school, had reached the expected standards in all three core subjects of reading, writing and maths.” https://caymannewsservice.com/2023/05/report-shows-school-leaver-results-drop-from-peak/
(3) 2024: “…only 26% of children leaving all government primary schools achieved the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics, according to a data report published last month by the Department of Education Services and the Ministry of Education. This is 1% down from the [previous] academic year.” https://caymannewsservice.com/2024/04/education-data-report-reflects-poor-school-results/
Also:
https://caymannewsservice.com/2019/09/school-standards-gap/
https://caymannewsservice.com/2018/12/2018-year-11-exam-results/
https://caymannewsservice.com/2017/05/education-results-fall-in-2016-data-report/
Businesses are not welfare schemes for the unemployable (that’s the “World Class Civil Service™” AKA ‘Shadow NAU’). The equivalent of the obsessive navel-gaving about Caymanian affirmative action, and whinging about expats, is the Black Economic Empowerment legislation in South Africa. As with all attempts to impose racial preferences/unmeritocratic tribalism, it has been a failure: https://theconversation.com/only-south-africas-elite-benefits-from-black-economic-empowerment-and-covid-19-proved-it-189596.
If Cayman wants to regress to being a handful of fishing villages, then quasi-Jamaican politicians can have hissy fits about expats. If not, keep quiet, knuckle down, and focus on educating Caymanians kids so that in due course they can compete for clients to further develop Cayman. Compete on merit: not skin color. There will be limits to this, though. An island of only 30,000 so-called “multigenerational Caymanians”, with the record of educational achievement documented above, seems unlikely to be able to rapidly generate any more that a tiny % of competent, internationally competitive, white collar professionals necessary to fulfil the wide range of roles here – without which, the island collapses into bankruptcy.
Other islands have demonstrated what happens if you indulge in lobotomised protectionism, rather than improving educational standards. See:
https://cpsi.media/p/jamaica-is-not-doing-ok
https://cpsi.media/p/why-does-barbados-underperform
https://cpsi.media/p/colonialism-and-progress-fb9
(At the outset, I note that I’m not defending any breach of the rules about Maples reporting Caymanian applicants to WORC. I’m confident however that it must have been just an admin oversight.)
Cayman politicians are lying to their people. Just getting a natty bit of paper from an attendance course does not guarantee people whatever job they demand.
Before you go to university, know that you are being sold a ticket to an outcome. The university doesn’t care about the outcome; they only care about the sale of the ticket. So if the university can convince 500 people to enrol and graduate from Tulip Arranging, earning $60,000 per student, but only two jobs for Professional Tulip Arrangement exist, leaving 498 people with a completely useless degree… well that’s not really the university’s problem. The university’s problem would be finding an artist to build a statue of a giant tulip with the extra $30,000,000 revenue and making flipping certain that the brochures for the next class will be extra glossy.
In reality, building on what someone has already said below, people need:
1. Education/qualifications. This is the baseline just to get a CV through the filter. It doesn’t even guarantee an interview.
2. International experience. The private sectors serves international clients, who tend to decline to instruct people who have only ever worked in Cayman. Many jobs cannot credibly or competently be done by people whose horizons are so tiny that they don’t have years of experience in the wider world. Don’t blame me – blame the clients!
3. Aptitude. Many people should realistically be aspiring to be e.g. security guards, checkout workers and bar staff, because that’s their ceiling. Don’t be a snob – there is nothing wrong with those jobs, and someone must do them. Double (or more) the minimum wage so that Caymanians can do them. 🤷♀️
4. Attitude. Anyone who’s grown up in a First World major city understands how it is infused with an atmosphere of competitiveness that is simply absent in the famously relaxed Caribbean. That ‘hunger to work’, and to commit oneself to one’s career is noticeably absent even with the children of first generation ‘Status Caymanians’, e.g. Canadians who moved here in the last 15-20 years. This is lovely in many respects (a kinder, gentler working environment), but it also sets up children in Cayman for failure. Focusing on expat kids, to hopefully remove the politics/emotions from it, even they are handicapped if they have no experience outside Cayman.
The saying “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”, popularized by US American entrepreneur and author Jim Rohn, means that the people you regularly associate with influence your behavior, thinking, and overall development. It highlights the impact of your social environment on your personal growth and success. Surrounding yourself with academically-driven, high-achieving and career-focused individuals sets the direction and trajectory of your life. Conversely, spending your formative years in a delightful Caribbean holiday island, with an exponentially more relaxed vibe… Well, you get the picture.
They should investigate Maples practice of forcing retirement at 60. They need to have a retirement age enshrined in the law so that Maples can’t use that as an opportunity to get rid of Caymanians nearing 60.
Errr, if the retirement age is 60, surely Maples is getting rid of EVERYONE at 60?
Why are you so desperate to seize the identity of victimhood that you see persecution in every aspect of life?
It’s a mental illness.
Used to be 55!
I call on the premier of the Cayman Islands to systematically hone in on the business staffing plans of all law firms operating in the Cayman Islands and clamp down on firms not providing adequate opportunities for Caymanians. Some of these lawyers are so arrogant and narcissistic they believe their own hype and don’t deserve to be granted the privilege of being given work permits.
CMR claims 11 of 12 charges were dropped and no conviction recorded as a result of a plea deal. If thats so it puts a very different complexion on the size of the fine and the result. A cynic might assume the result was a significantly lower fine and of course no criminal conviction record for the firm, on charges which should be fairly easy to prove – you either disclosed the other applications, and can evidence that, or you didnt. There’s no issue of confidentiality in a court proceeding for breaking regulations – why doesnt WORC publish the charges and the judgment if it wants to make a song and dance about how well it did.
Fines are civil with a 6 year time limit. Whereas if there was proof and charge of an orchestrated management-level conspiracy, that’s different can of worms that a fine won’t fix. No time limit on that.
No surprise!
Another protected lot!
Do you really believe that having an “Qualification” makes Person A and Person B interchangeable? If so, I have a bridge to sell you.
Would you not concede that in fact people need four qualities:
1. Qualifications. The baseline for your CV to be considered. It doesn’t even guarantee you an interview. And the value of qualifications both depends on the institution (*) and has been massively undermined by the growth of AI since 2023 (**).
2. International experience. Clients demand it.
3. Aptitude. We can’t fix stupid.
4. Attitude. We can’t fix lazy.
(*) Qualifications from all law schools aren’t equal: https://caymannewsservice.com/2025/01/shortage-of-criminal-defence-lawyers-still-delaying-justice/#comment-670314
(**) Qualifications per se are increasingly worthless, now that AI enables anyone to ‘earn’ a qualification. Stupid people get degrees all the time. See:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/tech/gen-z-grads-say-their-college-degrees-are-worthless-thanks-to-ai
https://www.smh.com.au/national/cheating-is-now-so-rampant-that-uni-degrees-have-become-worthless-20241119-p5krwq.html
https://brockpress.com/generative-a-i-is-rendering-your-degree-useless/
The cold reality is that a degree and zero experience “qualifies” you for virtually nothing. The only thing you’re qualified for is starting at rock bottom, for rock bottom wages. And the reality is that Cayman companies (including the law firms) cannot absorb that many entry level jobs.
You all go abroad to other countries to get tertiary education because there is none of any value in Cayman. Many of you can go to UK as BOTC… the same is not true of America, Canada, or anywhere else.
Keep making it harder and harder for businesses to choose the labor they want by pretending you’re qualified, and eventually they will shut down, leave, or offshore work. Then you lose completely. At the moment you are milking foreigners for over US$ 1bn/year in indirect taxation. That’s not nothing (or, it wouldn’t be if you didn’t waste it).
If this country didn’t have expats, it would completely collapse. You cannot grow enough food here to feed your people. You cannot raise enough animals. There are no natural resources and nothing to export. Four Mile Beach is ever shrinking and swarming with higglers. Without financial services and tourism you have no influx of capital, and you’d be completely broke within a few months of food and oil imports.
The ignorance of Caymanians not understanding how close this country is to falling off a cliff is astonishing.
So keep complaining about being qualified. By definition, we are only here because WORC realised that you cannot fill our jobs. When it all crashes down, all of us have citizenship in other places and will thrive elsewhere while you laugh and tell us to get on the plane. And then you’ll starve and this tiny little territory (it’s not a country) will go back to tin shacks and mosquitos.
Cayman does not need people with this poor attitude.
Can’t handle the truth, eh?
No. We have always ‘handled the truth’. We are desperately tired of ‘shitty attitudes’.
How does “the truth” = “a shitty attitude”?
Do you want people to lie to your children, and set them up for failure?
Oh, wait, you’re already doing that yourselves. Well done. How is working out for you?
If your fantastical tale was the case, there wouldn’t be any need to hide the Caymanians who apply for jobs and there would be no crime. They could have reported the Caymanians to WORC freely because they would not have qualified for the job.
Feel free to go home!
>”…there wouldn’t be any need to hide the Caymanians who apply for jobs and there would be no crime.”
I presume that Maples just screwed up their admin, hence why almost all charges were dropped, and they agreed to a token sum in respect of the single remaining charge. Why would they be “hiding” Caymanians?!
Presume LOL
As someone else has pointed out, from the available information it looks like Maples failed to disclose applicants for a post room job.
It’s hardly the crime of the century, Sherlock – don’t get your knickers in a twist! 😂😨😱😭
Go bro fo sho!
We know how close we are to “falling off a cliff” and it’s people like you that are pushing us to the edge. You compare us to Canada and America for education and belittle us for going overseas to get it. You belittle us by saying we can’t produce our own food, raise enough animals, no natural resources, no exports. Well no shyte Sherlock, the island is about a hundred square miles with a population of 80,000, of which half of them are expats. We don’t have enough suitable land for commercial farming or ranching, or natural resources on the scale that the 3,809,525 square mile America has but it was still enough for you, if not better, to leave where you were to come here.
You are here, yes because there a need for employment the island population cannot provide, but how dare you belittle us because we have outgrown the available resources we do have. Perhaps we should re-adjust the situation and scale down the expat owned businesses to meet the local supply of workers. I’d be happy to come help your ungrateful behind pack.
I don’t think the the original poster was belittling anyone. They just appear to be pointing out some practical realities.
The point about Cayman being tiny is presumably that Caymanians should be grateful to the expats bringing in over 1 billion dollars a year (or whatever it is), and not constantly complaining.
There is no unemployment in Cayman. The whinging about law firms is entirely contrived.
There are problems in Cayman, but they are problems created by Caymanian politicians, elected by Caymanian voters. (The dump, abysmal school results, fat people, no monorail/public transport, George Town isn’t fit for purpose and Camana Bay would be a better capital, etc.)
The message contained the brutal truth; truths I had to acknowledge and be happy with life at the bottom rung until I gained the skills and experience required to go for for life near the top of the ladder:
–Success in professional firms catering to the international market requires qualifications, international experience, aptitude, and attitude.
–Degrees without experience only qualify a person for entry-level jobs with low wages.
–Not all law school qualifications are equal in value or reputation.
–Most Caymanians go abroad for tertiary education because there is no higher education locally that is valuable for employment at the top tiers of professional firms.
–Cayman companies, including law firms, cannot absorb very many entry-level workers.
–Pretending to be qualified and limiting employer choice to the pretenders will cause businesses to shut down, leave, or offshore work.
–Cayman currently relies on foreigners in its work force.
–Without expatriates, the Cayman Islands’ economy and society would collapse.
–Cayman cannot produce enough food, raise enough animals, or export natural resources to sustain itself.
–Environmental degradation, like the shrinking of “Four Mile Beach” and crowds of vendors, is worsening.
–Without financial services and tourism bringing in capital, Cayman would collapse economically within months.
–Many Caymanians fail to understand how close their country is to economic and social collapse.
–When collapse happens, people with foreign citizenship and Caymanians with dual citizenship will leave and thrive elsewhere; those left behind will face starvation and a return to primitive living conditions.
–Cayman is a tiny territory, not an independent country, and is highly vulnerable to economic shocks.
Truth is neutral. When people suggest that the truth is “belittling”, they’re usually conflating the emotional impact of receiving the truth`with the truth itself.
If someone feels belittled, it’s not the truth doing the belittling: it’s the the framing and their own interpretation thereof.
Truth cannot inherently be belittling, however, it can be humbling. Rather than making a humble acknowledgement of the truths, you lashed out. In other words, you manifested the shitty attitude prospective employers find so very endearing about some of us Caymanians.
Thank God that I am a generational Caymanian–and one very proud of my heritage–but one with dual citizenship. Many of us have sounded the warning. So when the collapse comes it means that our fellow Caymanian did not heed. But you will not have to pack my bags, I will have long since taken the coach outta Dodge and be unpacking my bags with my behind nestled in a comfy recliner, in a comfy home abroad, watching the chaos on YouTube.
Harsh but fair.
Apparently this is just a start to what’s been happening. I am a caymanian very hard worker. going to interviews knowing I did really well and unfortunately being a part of the LGBT community I see I have been discriminated against a lot. I know that is the reason. it’s so sad but yet so true.
No one cares who you share a bed with. Please though, for the love of god, stop telling us about it: WE DON’T CARE.
Do not bring your whole self to work. Just get into the office, work hard, then go home and be yourself.
See the Financial Times’s advice here: https://archive.is/20250308052415/https://www.ft.com/content/595d035a-ee72-11e8-8180-9cf212677a57#selection-2223.25-2223.205
“Please do not bring your ‘whole self’ to work
It is fatuous to encourage people to behave in the office just as they do at home
…Companies want workers who are industrious and easy to manage. Workers, for that matter, are generally looking for companionable, civil colleagues who get on with the job at hand… I have worked with a lot of innovative, clever people who never cared to talk much about their personal lives. I was perfectly happy to think they behaved differently at home than at work. I suspect they felt the same about me.”
Good luck with your job hunting.
Government can’t talk!!
Thank you!
Let us not get started on how corrupt and unfair CIG can be when it comes to jobs and hiring. Starting at the top…
BTW any news on a recent investigation on an HR employee in Education?
Oh never mind she has friends in high places so back to work she goes and vacation here we go…
10:51 stop the fake news. Remember you claim to be Caymanian senior civil servant. are you the friend.
really I thought you were a dive master
BS 5:08. Government hires and promotes loads of Caymanians who aren’t properly suited to the job either in qualifications/experience or ( especially) work ethic.
All the posters assuming this is an example of a law firm deliberately cutting out Caymanians from the profession are assuming because its a law firm it must be an entry level lawyers job. If the fine is a max of 5x the permit fee, as another poster suggests, this is a pretty menial position, and a wrist slap Maples will shrug off. Not that that makes Maples failure to follow the regulations any better, or explains why their HR department messed up on what should be a a routine application, but puts the complaints over the size of the fine, the plaudits for WORC in taking on Maples, and the implication that this was deliberate exclusion from the profession in context. When i see them fined $100K+ for failing to declare applicants for an associate position i will start to take it seriously. This looks like dragging the bushes for a positive story to support the new governments claimed crack down. Go on WORC, prove me wring – publish the judgement so we can see the detail and the date on which the prosecution took place
You have no idea, sit down!
Really, naviety is sad for you!
It is a beginning, and one fostered by the new government. It is enough to make a person hopeful for meaningful change.
It’s platitudes and populist bullshit.
Nothing to do with the new Government, I doubt Michael Myles was out there investigating. Credit WORC for doing their job and the person who blew the whistle.
Hundreds of whistles have been blown. When can we expect WORC to respond to those?
Leaving aside any other considerations, the HR department at Maples is really poor.
Hear Hear.
LMAO Try here, here!
This couldn’t happen for an associate position because they are all Caymanian.
HR Department? You really do not know a damn thing!
So the person on work permit is working ‘at home’ with Maples car park sticker…?
yawn…don’t worry maples, i’ll pay the fine for you.
this whole thing is a storm in a teacup but will claimed as some huge victory by small minded entitled caymanians….
caymanian unemployment and discrimination is a myth and the exact opposite is true
@11:08 am Says a non-Caymanian…
caymanian.
‘C’
yawn..!!
Naive! Go ahead and pay then yawny!
You ought to try being a minority in your own country and face discrimination on every front!
The foreign employers hate us. I’m gainfully employed and have been all my life, but I see how we are discriminated against on a daily basis. This is just once instance where they were caught. Sadly Caymanians are more likely to get called up for interviews if they change their last names, and remove Caymanian from their resumes.
The Jamaican police, and foreign DPP hate us. Then they bring in a hitman judge from Jamaica to send us to Northward. They would love to see us all in jail or forced into a reservation.
We need to take our country back Cayman! This new government were full of big talk, but all they are doing is posing for photo ops. Truly disappointed so far!
Not true.
Stupid is as stupid says! What year you living in?
Yup.
crippling, and all since
Once you paid, publish your receipt on CNS, we all interested!
We might assume that WORC functions just about as well as HM Customs, who give themselves 3-4 weeks to clear packages.
That is what happens when you have to import EVERYTHING!
Lmao 8k? so less than the month salary for someone in the associate pool… That’s not a fine, that’s an accounting error.
Actually I bet its a line item standard entry – willingly paid to hire the professional, experienced, educated Associates that are not present from the ‘world class Cayman education mess’. Did they miss the reporting, yes. So they report it next time and continue to hire at THEIR standards, not bending to hire unqualified applicants.
Why is it that a caymanian can’t start up a law firm and hire only caymanians? I would love to see how this concept would work. Please show us how it’s done and show us how it will operate as a top notch law practice.
Appleby started by Caymanians
Walkers started by Caymanians
Dentons started by Caymanians
Bedell Cristin started by Caymanians
This is not a question of hiring only Caymanians. It is a question of not lying to regulators and not going out of your way to avoid burning, training, promoting, and retaining them – especially those that have proved themselves.
@10:25am Where were you when Ormond Panton and Truman Bodden were practising law? Chasing your nanny wearing nappies?
Their firms no longer exist, hence their omission from that list.
I’m not going to look up the rest since you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about by Appleby was started in Bermuda by a Brit (Reginald Appleby) born in Hampshire, England.
Appleby was started (in the Cayman Islands) by Clifton Hunter, in Bodden Town, in 1945. It is the longest continuously operating Cayman law firm. It has changed its name. Not its origins.
Appleby Bermuda!
No it was not!
2:43 – Wrong! “Appleby’s origins trace back to Bermuda in the late 1890s, founded by Major Reginald Appleby.”
Appleby in Bermuda. Not Appleby in Cayman.
Hunter & Hunter merged with Appleby.
Started in Cayman, by a Caymanian, Clifton Hunter, in the 1940’s. Succeeded (in managing partner roles) by his son, Arthur Hunter, and grandson, Bryan Hunter. Merged with Appleby, Spurling and Kempe from Bermuda, forming Appleby Spurling Hunter. Further merger with the Jersey firm of Bailhache Labesse. Rebranded as Appleby.
It would all be so much better (and nicer) if there were not so many self-important arrogant pricks in our legal profession, from other countries, who think they know it all and treat Cayman’s history, and the role of Caymanians in it, with such disdain.
pretty sure Appleby used to be hunter and hunter. unless you’re now going to claim Arthur Hunter wasn’t caymanian
All typical blah blah about yourselves..we did this, we did that, address your damn abuse on all levels!
Michael (12.37pm) should apologise.
If he is admitted as a Cayman attorney, the Chief Justice should apologise.
If he was granted status, the Attorney General should apologise.
The rewriting of our history needs to stop. Many of those that we have invited to live with us, need to leave.
Was he?
haters. I always say if our country is not treating you well, there is always the option of leaving. If we sink,drown or survive, let it be our problem
When did you become a ‘country’?
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But I’d be curious at the percentage of their hires that have been Caymanian! I bet they rely mostly on the superior applicant pool of xpats.
Presumably Caymanians were better educated back in the day?
The current educational output renders most locals unemployable. That’s not the fault of the financial services industry. We’re busting a gut to pay you f##kers taxes and fees so you can funds the school system.
Don’t blame us when you then completely screw it up, and churn out unemployables.
What a crock of total bullshit!
Appleby was not founded in the Cayman Islands, it originated in Bermuda in 1898, established by Reginald Appleby.
Walkers, was founded in the Cayman Islands in 1964 by Bill Walker, who was born in Guyana, educated in Barbados, and later trained at the University of Cambridge in England, where he qualified as a solicitor. He moved to Cayman during the early stages of its financial sector’s emergence and established what became the jurisdiction’s first full-service commercial law firm.
Dentons is an international law firm formed in 2013 through the merger of several global practices. Its presence in the Cayman Islands came through a 2018 combination with Dinner Martin.
Bedell Cristin was founded in Jersey in 1939 by George Bedell and became Bedell Cristin after Dick Cristin joined in 1958. The firm expanded to the Cayman Islands as part of its offshore practice.
It is breathtaking that over 60 fools upvoted your excrement. Proof of a longstanding truism in public persuasion circles: If you want people to believe your BS do not tell small lies, tell big, fantastic ones and they will eagerly swallow it all. Seems that coprophagics are born every day roun yah.
But those are not all caymanian. Where is the all caymanian firm that operates at a world class level? If a caymanian loses a competition for a job to a better qualified expat, you all cry foul. Establish and operate an all caymanian firm so we can see the train wreck
After reading these comments, I am left with the impression that some people think there are actually hundreds of Caymanians with law degrees that are not employed who are looking for work at a law firm and are unable to get work.
Almost any Caymanian with a law degree who actually desires to work at a law firm would be able to get multiple offers. There is no shortage of opportunities.
No shortage of opportunities to be provided with crap work, unconscionable treatment, no career progression, no international experience in overseas offices. Those opportunities you apply for and the firms don’t even tell the authorities? Those opportunities?
True true
English club only allowed.
Depends on the firm.
– crap work
– unconscionable treatment
– no career progression
– no international experience in overseas office
You are describing the normal life of law firm associates. I read this comment on a US law firm associate chat site recently. You’ve evidencing the same toxic trend:
*** Seeing racism that doesn’t exist ***
This is entirely subjective, and we risk creating issues where none exist, i.e. similar to false memory syndrome. I’m not saying that racism and sexism don’t exist, I’m noting that if we ‘prime’ people to look for racism and sexism everywhere, then (1) people will find them; and (2) they may, objectively, be incorrect – and we are responsible for having encouraged their misapprehensions. In so doing, we have made them less resilient and more fragile: we are not helping.
I’m thinking of a specific example a couple of years ago, in which while out drinking, Associate 1, a racial minority, told me that he was considering leaving the firm. He specifically cited as one of his considerations the fact that Partner 1, a white female, was “a racist” because she gave Associate 2, a black female, certain sorts of work which Associate 1 considered “dull and monotonous”, and thus beneath our pay grade. He triumphantly concluded that Partner 1 was therefore racist.
He was astonished when I explained that for much of the previous nine months I had been doing exactly the same dull and monotonous work, indeed it comprised 90% of my work (seriously, he was speechless and looked like a small child whose toys had just been stolen). I noted that I, a white male, had been doing it at the behest of Partner 2, who also is a racial minority.
What I did not go on to point out was that this evidenced that his assertions about racism were a total fabrication contrived by his overactive left-wing mind. The dangerous politicization of these issues by a grievance industry determined to contrive, fetishize and weaponize victimhood is actively damaging to those who indulge in it.
By contrast, because I am a white male, I just accept that I am a small cog in a very large machine, and that I am here to do whatever the firm needs me to do (and be very well paid for it: we are incredibly fortunate to work here), and in that case (in fact the preceding 9 months), that was fairly dull and monotonous work. I am not a special snowflake: if it needs doing, I was not “too good” for that work, and I don’t have the excuse of playing the race card if I didn’t like it. Hence my points at the outset about subjectivity and creating specters of racism where none exists.
This is part of a political battlefield. On one side is Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X Kendi. On the other are people such as Amy Chua, Andrew Sullivan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Coleman Hughes, Glenn Loury, Heather MacDonald (City Journal), Jason Reilly, John McWhorter, Larry Elder, Megan Kelly, Shelby Steele (e.g. “The Content of Our Character”), Thomas Chatterton Williams (e.g. “Self-Portrait in Black and White”), Thomas Sowell (e.g. “The Economics and Politics of Race”), Walter Williams, Wilfred Reilly, etc. I’m on the side of the latter. Choose carefully if you want to survive in this profession.
Oh, yeah?! How often do you see law firms (and we have plenty!) inviting CAYMANIANS to apply for articleship? We are tired of being treated as if we do not understand how the game is being played! These law firms clear significant profits annually and beyond sponsoring causes, they invest very little in Caymanian human capital. It is disrespectful.
The ONLY people who are eligible for articleships are Caymanians. It’s impossible for non-Caymanians to undertake them (and rightly so).
You are talking out of your sphincter, as are all the other malcontent whingers on this thread.
Morons.
Did you read the article? Absolute moron.
I do agree with this statement. Some of the newer lawyers though are not for the burnout (and rightfully so!). Some of these “bigger” firms have really bad reputations for work/life balance.
I think they are struggling to attract law graduates to come, when the smaller firms offer the same salary and less expectations for working 23 hours a day.
There are major problems recruiting from first world countries in the last few years:
1. Onshore law firms salaries have increased, so Cayman firms can’t match them.
2. Work-life balance has improved, so escaping to the Caribbean (where you’ll be in thrall to client in both the US and Hong Kong time zones) is less attractive.
3. WFH means that people’s commute has typically reduced by 40% (i.e. 2 days/week), which again diminishes the relative attraction of Cayman.
4. Cayman politicians have famously mismanaged growth, with the consequence that the island is frequently a massive traffic jam, and one with an extortionate cost of living.
The accountants have had the same problems, but worse, because they’re less profitable and therefore can’t pay decent salaries. That’s why you’re seeing increasing numbers of Indians and South Africans, for whom Cayman salaries are still, on balance, worth it.
This ought to be a concern for CIG though, because if clients don’t believe that Cayman professional services firms can offer the best people, they won’t instruct us, and the work (and thus the fees which fund CIG and Caymanians) will dry up.
Completely false statement.
There are hundreds of Caymanians with law degrees in other professions now because they could not get employed at a law firm.
What a load of crap!
Just because you have a degree doesnt mean you’re good. statistically, its impossible for the Caymanians to be amongst the worlds best attorneys.
given salaries paid in Cayman, someone at the truman bodden law school is unlikely to be able to compete with applicants from Stanford / Oxford etc.
Then the law firms could consider an exchange program. Two Caymanian lawyers seconded overseas for each five attorneys they have on work permit.
But that would involve them following, and us enforcing, our laws. They and we do not do that.
There is no law requiring law firms to send Caymanians on expensive exchange programmes.
What are you smoking?
I see the logic behind your suggestion, but I don’t think it’s realistic. I’m happy to be contradicted though, so grateful for people’s comments:
1. It’s not years of OFFSHORE experience people need, it’s years of ONSHORE experience. In other words, when attorneys in Cayman speak to potential clients in New York and London, the objective of the exercise is for the latter to think, “This person is just like me: they worked at Freshfields and Latham & Watkins, doing mainstream onshore work, and ONLY THEN moved to Cayman. I shall instruct this chap. Hurrah!” (or words to that effect).
Without several years of crucial onshore expertise, you’re simply not credible. Offshore firms therefore cannot “simply” second Caymanjans to their London office for two years (it also wouldn’t be simple: our London office simply doesn’t need juniors, they would just get in the way).
2. Offshore firms are service providers to onshore firms: WE work for THEM. We therefore don’t have any leverage to persuade e.g. Kirkland & Ellis in London to employ a random Caymanian law graduate for two years. London firms’ own trainees and NQs are already a burden: they don’t want to babysit random secondees.
3. An attorney is of limited use for their first year or so in a new jurisdiction. To derive any value, you then need to get at least a further year’s work out of them. Therefore, secondments only work if they are for a minimum of two years. How many Caymanian kids want to spend two years in e.g. London?
4. A Caymanian attorney made an excellent point many years ago. He said that, with hindsight, the ONLY effective way to reliably compete on a level playing field (no affirmative action, no WORC tipping the scales) would be to encourage and enable Caymanian graduates to secure training contracts or pupillages in London law firms/chambers, respectively, and for them to ONLY return to Cayman after a minimum of three years’ practice in London. This would then put them on a level playing field with expats lawyers, who — by law — must have a minimum of three years overseas practicing experience. This is however brutally difficult: competition for training contracts and pupillage is vicious.
Point 4 would also address the elephant in the room: diversity hire suspicions. Presently, many clients suspect that the expat lawyers are the “A team”, and the Caymanian lawyers are the “Affirmative action B team”, who are only in situ because WORC blackmailed their firms into employing them.
That’s extraordinarily difficult for us to disprove. We can TELL clients that ALL of our attorneys are amazing, but if they can see themselves that the Caymanians (a) don’t have years of onshore experience; and (b) are the beneficiaries of a preferential employment regime, they are very sceptical.
That preferential employment regime is entirely understandable and – on one level – entirely defensible; but then so is clients’ preference not to risk their multi billion dollar investment vehicle in such people’s hands 🤷🏼♀️
The expats that come to Cayman are not from Stanford/Oxford. University of Liverpool is a Russell Group Uni. The degree conferred once graduated from Truman Bodden Law school is from University of Liverpool. The exams are graded by lecturers and professors at University of Liverpool. Are you suggesting that University of Liverpool should be removed from the Russell Group list?
>”The degree conferred once graduated from Truman Bodden Law school is…”
This has been answered before:
https://caymannewsservice.com/2025/01/shortage-of-criminal-defence-lawyers-still-delaying-justice/#comment-670314
The Cayman’s Finance arena is made up of smallish boutique firms, who hire by appointment only. If you don’t have an inside contact at partner level, you might not even get an acknowledgment of an application, let alone an exploratory nil commitment interview. Many of the larger firms are hiring less than 5 summer interns, mostly nepotism hires, and even then, only for a few weeks in slow season. Cayman is not a learn-as-you-go training ground, and with laughable fines like this, unlikely to be changing spots anytime soon.
Just because you have a law degree, does not mean you automatically qualify for employment in any job you apply for.
No, but you do qualify to have the fact of your application told to the immigration authorities in connection with an application for a work permit.
And yet there are potentially hundreds of non Caymanians practicing Cayman law in service of these same firms, all over the world, without holding the legally required qualifications, training or licensing? Is it only Caymanians that need the qualifications and experience? How are so many expats exempt?
Those Caymanians who are motivated absolutely do get the jobs, whether law grad or not. There are tons of lucrative positions within these firms that do not require any legal services degree or experience. But what I’ve found is people want lofty opportunities without having proven they can handle them.
This is a reputable firm with a history for looking out for Caymanians (speaking from experience). Just within recent years this firm provided an opportunity that would have propelled me up the firm but due to my own personal issues, I walked away. A setback that was MY own fault, I continued to advance, onward, upward.
What people need is a wake up call. Lose the victim mentality and put yourself out there. Shaudenfruede, while it may give you that little rush you crave right now, does nothing to help you get the job at any firm. You are right, $8k is nothing, but move on, better yourself or fight with WORC and your MPs to change what you feel is unfair.
Caymanians aren’t weak willed by nature but we have a tendency to constantly compare ourselves to expats and accept defeat before even trying. Compare yourself to who you were last year or the year before and keep moving forward. I started under a lower level manager at one of these firms who was offered a promotion every single year but she always turned it down, afraid of the extra responsibility. I rocketed past her and naturally her response was to speak negatively about me (a fellow Caymanian) and the job. This mentality and not the company, is what is hurting Caymanians.
A few tips from one who came from absolutely nothing and holds no malice against anyone, whether expat or local:
(i) fix the attitude, (ii) fight for what you want, (iii) whether you believe it or not : no one owes you anything. I learned this a long time ago and currently 40 years old, retired(ish) and chasing my passions – all thanks to firms including this one. It took alot of work and pain but from 16 years old, I worked exclusively with these firms and funnily enough, it was always the expats who supported me and helped me progress.
A common sentiment in local circles was that I only “want to be around white people”. While not true, I never corrected it because I didn’t care about the chatter. I wanted to be successful, and the people who felt the need to make these comments simply weren’t that.
Take responsibility and ownership of your life then go out there and get yours. If you fail, get up and go again. I heard “no” so many times, disappointed but not deterred. I hit the point where I never applied for a job again, receiving offers and turning them away, being selective. This is not a brag, it should be inspirational to those who feel lost.
Build your worth, and on all that is holy, stay out of your own way! Reading these comments it reaffirms that we are our own worst enemy. Accept that, then change it.
Best comment of the day. Hopefully people take the time to read it.
Some good points but alot of self non inspiring gush. Retire at 40?
I learned this a long time ago and currently 40 years old, retired(ish) and chasing my passions – all thanks to firms including this one. It took alot of work and pain but from 16 years old, I worked exclusively with these firms and funnily enough, it was always the expats who supported me and helped me progress.
I hope WORC keeps a close eye on this new Mandarin Hotel project. The foreign builder has plans to bring in over 2000 overseas workers. Will they be allowed to put up man camps to house them? Why was this foreign company allowed to come in here in the first place? Who is the local partner? The new government should be checking everything on this one very very close.
Don’t worry, that is never going to get built!
Same local general contractor as Grand Hyatt Pageant Beach- same local subcontractors, local labour brokers, lunch nyam vendors, same same same…
There are no hordes of ‘overseas workers’ nor new mancamps to house them. The ‘overseas workers’ are all already here and have been for some time- the ‘mancamps’ are the 8-to-a-room tenements found behind George Town, Bodden Town, West Bay and all over.
All illegal. All made possible by corruption.
And fronting.
…so, illegal and corrupt?
Lets hope the Mandarin is preparing to send a couple of hundred Caymanians to intern in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai – and have sent others to the world’s finest training schools on everything from culinary arts to languages and cultural considerations of guests. Otherwise, if our laws are truly being followed, no permits for them!
They won’t send any Caymanians anywhere. They will be bringing in foreigners to work CHEAP.
…then no work permits for them. See how easy that was? Problem solved. All we had to do was follow our own law.
Hopefully BSP Board will dust off the Business Staffing Plan filed by Maples and review the plan for compliance.
They should do it for every law firm. They should provide a safe mechanism for Caymanians who have applied for jobs to provide details of their applications. They should then compare it with the applications received by WORC. This Maples sideshow is nowhere near the story of what has actually been happening.
Are Status Holders Caymanians? To be put out of work, to be filled with work permit holder of the lawyer of a different law firm?
I wonder what Maples Business Staffing Plan says from the days when Andrew Reid, Maples Partner, was chairman of the board – ably assisted by deputy chairman Canover Watson. Chris Saunders was also a member of that Board. Bwoy, that would be an interesting read.
Chris Saunders has repeatedly said that the BSB needs to revamped and measures taken. Has been saying that since he first got elected; employment, the banks, health cost and housing.
So how many milliseconds does it take for Maples to turn over $8K? Maybe Maples might think twice if the fine was $800K.
exactly! for Maples that’s not even a slap on the wrist. Disgusting.
I checked with ChatGPT and the answer is 11 milliseconds.
The fine should be no less than the salary offered for the advertised position, with a minimum penalty of CI$100,000, aligning with CIMA’s fine for serious violations.
1000% this. But it’ll never happen.
So not even a slap on the wrist. The fine was a glass of their cheapest wine. My question is what happens to the awarded work permit holder? What happens to the Caymanians that didnt even got a phone call? Come our politicians we just voted in, the BS has been going on for too long at the expense of the competent Caymanians. This needs to be corrected immediately!!
$8k? They make over $100 million every year …zzz
It is well known all of the law firms pass over Caymanians. It is an old boys club and if you don’t look or talk like them they don’t want you.
Some things never change …
This is just not factual. All the large law firms in Cayman would gladly take Caymanians with law degrees, who are will to work in the somewhat stressful environment of a large law firm. In fact, it is a challenge to find enough to go around.
The same applies to the large accounting firms, who would all take on Caymanians with a CPA (or equivalent) designation.
Absolute unmitigated bullshit. The actions of some firms has been unconscionable, even criminal, and without any accountability. They have become a law unto themselves. Their regulators appear inept at best, complicit at worst.
Absolutely!
Mind boggling that more Caymanians don’t get a CPA designation.
So many jobs for Caymanian accountants available and there have been for many years.
But again, you have to work extremely long hours after getting your qualifications, during the audit season of the big firms and many fall by the wayside as they cannot cope with 15 hour days. Reward is lots of time off in the summer.
1:01, So you think it is no different working as an accountant for a Big Four firm in New York, London, Miami or Toronto?
If you want to work with the big boys and get ahead in your career you need to pay your dues in your 20’s & early 30’s. If you put in the dues you will be financially rewarded.
Is it any different working with a Magic Circle law firm or working as a top doctor in a major world city?
One can empathise with the token heritage Caymanian partners at Maples – who really have no say on any matter.
Way more than 100mil, probably over 500mil… Theres 50,000 entities registered at Ugland house. Caymanians at Maples should strike over this news!
productivity would increase ten fold if they did.
04/07/2025 at 9:19 am Wow! Clearly don’t like us, but I bet you love the lifestyle here, don’t you?
How much of the government’s revenue is generated by Maples alone? Given the number you cite, I’d estimate its 10-20%.
You want Caymanians who have a job at Maples to go on strike to protest that Maples isn’t hiring Caymanians?
Yes!
Yes, so standing up for your own then, got your feet under table and hell with everyone else! Got your money n made it n hink you so big now. Says it all!
Slap on the wrist. This type of stuff is blatant. I know of cases where former Partners call in favors and get jobs for family members for legal jobs!
You should see some…a lot…of the applications coming into these law firms and other companies in the island. “I is a graduate of John Gray High School”.
I came in there with a 15yr strong career, impeccable grammar and a beaming resume. I very much seemed out of place off the bat. Its like my accent was a problem, not their British, Irish, South African ones as we were clearly somewhere in Europe.
Caymanians at the top are a thing of the 80’s,90’s and pre Ivan 2000’s
…pre Cabinet status grants 2000’s.
South Africans can’t get admitted as attorneys in Cayman
South Africans who come here to practice law will typically find employment with a British law firm, get their calls to the bar there and then move on to a Cayman law firm; because they have a call in England, Scotland and/or Northern Ireland, that gives them the ability to get called to the bar in the Cayman Islands the same as Canadians, Australians and others from the Commonwealth Countries that have a common law degree do.
Yes they can! They are Caymanian now!
only if their grants were lawful (including that their employers and they told the truth on all their applications leading up to and including their grant of status).
Not true…. ask the Clerk of Courts to provide you details. You can do an FOI if you want.
they can if they do the conversion course
But was the bad permit cancelled??!
There were 11 charges. Was that because 11 Caymanians were not disclosed for a single job? – or were there 11 jobs that had the fact and identity of Caymanians applicants withheld? Anyone know the details? Assuming any breaches to have been intentional, or it wouldn’t have gone to court, were the HR individuals or managers responsible fired?
And the rest, bullying, intimidation …
CI$8,000 is less than the cost of the work permit that they rather paid instead of hiring a Caymanian. it is not going to make any difference for their recruiting process
Great! Some of our students are coming out with six, seven, eight passes, and can’t even get a receptionist position to begin from.
According to the Expats, Caymanians are not qualified, nor do they have the requisite experience to fill such a position. So, another Expat must be brought in to fill it and then the Caymanian file room clerk will be made to train them.
Almost all legal recruitment is based on two key parameters: (i) “PQE” (post qualification experience), measured in years and (ii) practice area (e.g. corporate, finance, employment, real estate, etc). You can’t conjure up, say, a 6-10 year PQE corporate M&A associate when someone in that position leaves. You generally have to hire them from abroad, unless you get lucky and someone already here (Caymanian or not) wants to change job. Even if you had someone with the same level of seniority in a different practice area, you can’t just drop them into running multi-million/billion dollar corporate transactions. Likewise, someone might have fewer years’ PQE in the same practice area, but that doesn’t mean they’re suitable to replace the more senior person.
The problem is that law firms parks lawyer with less PQE in their London Office/Hong Kong Office doing Cayman law work…and waits until the 3 year PQE requirement is met. One they meet 3 year PQE they are admitted in Cayman. Shame that PPM or this Govt does not have the inclination to bring the Legal Services Act into full force.
And yet the practice of CaymanLaw without admission and a practicing certificate is said to be an offense. Can Samuel Bulgin please explain why he is facilitating this? Can the Chief Justice please explain (as regulator of the profession) why this is continuing unabated? Can the law firms concerned please explain how their insurance arrangements work?
Samuel Bulgin..drifting on well paid benefits for years, does F*** A**
Riding off the back off Maples, Government Attirneys, fir years!
Get rid of him..how much we save?
>” The problem is that law firms parks lawyer with less PQE in their London Office/Hong Kong Office doing Cayman law work…and waits until the 3 year PQE requirement is met. One they meet 3 year PQE they are admitted in Cayman.”
This sounds like a delusional, unhinged conspiracy theory from someone who was too sh#t to be employed by a Cayman law firm.
The only substantial presence outside of Cayman where attorneys are practising Cayman law is Hong Kong. That is an absolute necessity, otherwise you will destroy access for clients.
I am not aware of any examples where attorneys have qualified and practised in Hong Kong, and then at the three-year point moved to Cayman. I think you are making this up. I think you are lying.
Prove your accusations: provide named examples. If there is any truth in what you say, the information will be on LinkedIn for you to find and share here. I strongly suspect that you won’t, because you can’t. As I say, you are lying.
My apologies your greatness, I did not realize that a receptionist position, although entry level, requires 6-10 years PQE. I am sure no expat brought in as a receptionist stays in that position for 10 years.
I appreciate you recognising my greatness, but the apology is unnecessary. As you will see if you re-read my post, I was referring to legal recruitment, not receptionist recruitment. I will admit to knowing next to nothing about what the skills and qualifications are for the position of receptionist.
Which is why obligations to train exist in our laws. If you need a lawyer with 6 years PQE to do something in a specialist field, and knew that you would need that person, you had six years to try to train one. Why didn’t you?
All law firms train people with a view to those people occupying more senior positions in future. If you lose a member of staff though, or suddenly have an influx of work, you can’t magically turn someone less senior into someone with years more experience to fill the role immediately. If you have trained someone who now occupies that position they are already, by definition, doing that job. Are you going to make that person do two peoples’ jobs – their own plus the person’s who just left? I think you have an unrealistic sense of how many subject matter specialists of the right level of seniority a firm can have ready and waiting to step into the next vacancy as and when it arises. Even with the ability to hire from abroad, Cayman firms are struggling to find enough people. By the way, onshore firms struggle with this same issue, despite having much larger labour pools to draw from. Cayman can pass whatever laws it wants, but law firms and other employers have reality to deal with. Failure to acknowledge or understand that reality and to insist on unrealistic ideologically driven solutions is not going to help Caymanians.
So, to paraphrase, Cayman can have whatever laws it wants and law firms can ignore them with impunity?
That is your reality?
That’s a fundamental disconnect of officers of the court.
Minister Myles, respectfully, please request a criminal investigation and where appropriate, the confiscation of assets of the firms, lawyers, and other professionals who may be operating in wilful disregard of Cayman’s laws.
Uh no. They have to deal with the reality of there not being enough suitable candidates, and the perception that they are habitually breaking the law (which seems to be the sentiment on here) if they can’t find enough of them just adds to the problem. Maybe we’ll learn more about this particular case in the future but right now there’s a lot of speculation with very little information on what actually happened.
Not having enough suitable candidates is an issue on the periphery of a firm’s control. Intentionally misleading on an immigration application is fully within the firm’s control. The former is unfortunate. The latter, probably criminal. It would be good, and fitting, for the public to know what actually happened. Maples usually has a good reputation when it comes to hiring locally. Do they in fact deserve it?
>”…law firms can ignore them with impunity?… That’s a fundamental disconnect of officers of the court… please request a criminal investigation and where appropriate, the confiscation of assets of the firms, lawyers, and other professionals who may be operating in wilful disregard of Cayman’s laws.”
I am 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.
You, and all of those demanding that Caymanians be “trained”, may as well be clinically retarded. Your conduct is ipso facto evidence of your inherent unemployability.
Great idea! Chris Saunders, perhaps with Orrie Merren’s drafting skills, should legislate for the following:
“Upon the occasion of any natural person duly recognised as possessing Caymanian status attaining, achieving, completing, or otherwise reaching the eighteenth (18th) anniversary of their natal emergence into the jurisdictional sphere of existence, there shall, by operation of this Act, and without the necessity for application, petition, licence, notification, regulatory authorisation, ministerial fiat, or other administrative or bureaucratic intermediation, be conferred, affixed, instantiated, and irrevocably vested in such person a bilateral anatomical augmentation consisting of a pair of fully formed, functional, and aerodynamically efficacious feathered appendages, commonly and for the avoidance of doubt herein termed “wings”, which said appendages shall be permanently and symmetrically affixed to the dorsoposterior region of the individual’s upper thorax; and such person shall thenceforth be deemed, construed, and conclusively presumed in law, equity, natural philosophy, and metaphysical doctrine to be possessed of the inherent, unqualified, and inalienable capacity to initiate, sustain, and navigate the act of flight, being defined as the voluntary, controlled, and self-propelled traversal of atmospheric space in three dimensions, irrespective of any pre-existing or contemporaneous statutory, regulatory, scientific, gravitational, theological, or epistemological principle, doctrine, anomaly, or absurdity that may purport to render such locomotion fanciful, impracticable, or otherwise contrary to observable natural law.”
ALL CAYMANIANS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO FLY, AND IT’S ONLY EVIL FORRINERS WHO ARE STANDING IN THE WAY!
Maybe hire the upper-year college educated Caymanian students that have applied for summer jobs? Your HR hiring misfires aren’t a good metric of the talent that is idle here, and ready to work, albeit for a couple months.
We have absolutely no use whatsoever for students. Every single offshore firm bends over backwards to employ Caymanian students several times a year, to keep WORC happy. They are just expensive furniture.
What possible use is someone who has no qualifications or experience?!
I frequently think that people comment on CNS pretending to be Caymanians, trying to make actual Caymanians look stupid. Stop it, it’s juvenile.
Agreed. Funny video about this just released:
“What’s the point of summer internships?
Hey, this is Liam – Good Work’s summer intern. It’s been the dream of a lifetime to work here over the last month or so, and everything I’ve done so far has been productive, eye-opening, and under the unexpectedly watchful eye of my boss Dan. In fact, he’s staring at me while brandishing a machete as I type this right now. What a team!
But not every intern has as clear a goal as I do this summer – many are wondering what they’re even for! So in today’s investigation, my handsome and well-read boss Dan Toomey seeks to uncover why we keep children like me around for two whole months, where we party and if he’s still got it at beer pong.
Enjoy and do not worry because I’m completely safe and well-fed! Thanks Dan!”
It’s worth watching!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCjL1bFALLA
Total BS 6:18. You should just interview some of the people who come for interviews. Hopeless. Good Caymanian applicants..and yes, they DO exist… for all positions get hired very quickly because they are worth their weight in gold. But there are, God knows, others who…..
The amount of the fine depends on what the law says. If we all feel it should be increased, we must lobby our MPs to amend the law accordingly
The law says up to five times the cost of the permit, and even then, there is discretion over whether to prosecute. Some law firm work permits are more than $30,000. Was it a janitor’s position they misled about?
guess they have to pay the tokens more
Are any the work permits granted without the applicant going through the process being revoked? What does CILPA have to say about the conduct of its member? CIMA? Cayman Finance? Chief Justice?
CILPA? Ha! Don’t hold your breath
Referencing the legal fraternity is an insult to fraternities. There is no hazing ritual as sordid or disgusting as the inner workings of law firms or the pretense of their regulation and accountability.
Where does it say the applicant didn’t go through the process? It says Maples failed to disclose other applicants on the work permit application, i.e. after they’d already decided to hire the candidate. Presumably if there was a better candidate who could be hired without the expense of a work permit and moving costs they’d have taken that person instead. So Maples screwed up their work permit application, but why should the innocent candidate who probably moved thousands of miles, packing up their old life and quitting their job, perhaps with family in tow, be punished for that error?
Because that this the law, and because a number of Caymanians are able to look at the position and know that it was not lawfully filled, and because maybe a Caymanians cannot even have a family in consequence of the unlawful act. The individual, if innocent, can be paced with another firm – ideally one that operates to a higher standard.
Exactly, it was Maple’s fault, and they should be responsible for the costs of sending that person back home. Possibly even being sued.
Naive!
WORC is a mess and that fine is a joke!
A lot of companies doing far worse than maples. That fine is peanuts for breaking the law
The need to get fined more than that small amount
More than just Maples lying to WORC the reality is they not really interested in employing, training and developing Caymanians.
They are prejudiced from the very top and view Caymanians as something they must deal with or tolerate.
Lying to WORC is an offense. It warrants criminal sanction. What does a society do if the lawyers are criminals?
Maples are lawyers for government for years!
Change it!
How many lawyers are not?
Walkers, Mourant, Appleby, Ogier, and the rest of them should have been taken to court years ago.
They also need to investigate the scholarship process. There are almost no generational Caymanians who are awarded, and when they are, it’s to maintain the illusion that they ‘uplift’ young Caymanians.
If they were genuinely concerned, these processes would be means tested.
Except there is no special category for “Generational Caymanians” under the law.
The big firms want to get a return on their investment, so they give scholarships to who they view as the best candidates.
So look at the school system after how many years of JuJu being in charge.
Baloney. There are many plenty of generational Caymanians among their article clerks.
And amongst the partners?
That’s right! We should have a special category for so-called “Multi-generational Caymanians” (“MGCs”), and require that law firms be run only by MCGs, not these horrible ‘furriners with status’.
AlllCayman politicians are MGCs, so let’s follow that example. What could possibly go wrong? Caymanian politicians have done *SO* well over the past 25 years I have lived here. Where would we be without the stunning achievements of JonJon’s driving, JuJu’s CI$500,000-per-head Brac “JuJu Memorial School”, Kenneth’s Barbados flights, Mac’s status grants, the dump, the education system, etc.
We want law firms to be run with that level of competence! Oh yes!! 🤡
I have status, but I truly respect that per the Cayman Creed I am only a transitional interloper. Only until three generations of umbilical cords have been buried in the Caymanian soil of S̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ Five Mile Beach is one bestowed with the mystical honor of participating in the holy ritual of dropping a mL of blood into a dead conch shell on a full moon night while riding a donkey through Jerusa- I mean Bodden Town. Once you throw said conch shell into the harbor you’re now considered a Blood Caymanian, and you too can drink-drive with impunity, block political financing transparency laws, destroy your children’s educational system, whip up xenophobia to mask your own incompetence and corruption, and embrace the sweet, sweet taste of expat work permit fees which allow you to live like Caymanian Royalty, lording it over the peasants who you tricked into electing you.
Limiting political candidates to multi-generational Caymanians seems like a great system! With the best of intentions!! What could possibly go wrong!!!
Let’s force accountancy and law firms to also be run by such people!!!!
Like Anna Goboult, Brett Basdeo, Winston Conolly, Theresa Pitcairn…yup.
Then what happens?
Christ Jesus, leave Theresa out of it, but go ahead, tell us about the others.
Why leave Theresa out of it?
All four are competent, capable, and no longer at Maples.
I know one of them was forced out as a partner by the other 2 expat partners and no Caymanian replaced him.
…aha…so the plot thickens….
If this case is legitimate, then well done WORC. However, as we saw with CIMA a few years ago, regulatory bodies here often don’t know what they are doing. We’ll see.
Do these types of things really surprise anyone? Can we be honest about the types of things most of us have know for a long time?
👏👏👏👏 Well done! Keep it up. If Caymanians are qualified, willing and able, there is no excuse. We had Caymanian bank managers, operations managers, F&B Managers, Accounting managers, CFOs, etc. but following the economic crisis around 2009, many companies left the jurisdiction and somehow for the new companies, Caymanians no longer made the cut. Fine their donkey, yes!
Minister Myles as a start please put an end to the category of permanent residence which is equivalent to a 25 year work permits (which are renewable for another 25 years).
CI Immigration law allows certain industries (including exempted companies) to apply for a 25 year work permit for senior executives like Head of HR, CFO, CEO, MD etc. Employees with 25 year work permits are shutting the door for progression of Caymanians. The biggest culprits are in the Captive Insurance Industry.
Also persons with 25 year work permits are job hopping without any real immigration oversight…as this is a sort of permanent residence with right to work.
Those categories are supposed to be bound to a particular employer.
No longer the case. Know of at least 3 who were on 25yr WP in insurance industry who changed employers.
I didn’t say it wasn’t happening. Only that it is not supposed to be.
Too bad we don’t have a competent lawyer working for US at WORC?
Hopefully under Michael Myles MP he will focus on truly getting our experienced Caymanians back into white collar jobs. We know Michael works well with our youth, but “Ministry of Youth” is not his remit.
It is sad to see so many local professionals passed over- when is he going to open the doors for a town hall meeting and meet with experienced Caymanians who are still looking for work?
Because the Attorney General and Solicitor General have seemingly refused to let that happen.
It’s not just that the Portfolio of Legal Affairs has to be held at gunpoint to allow a lawyer to exist elsewhere in government. It’s also that a government lawyer’s salary would make them one of WORC’s top 5 earners. A ministry would rather spend that money on itself.
where can you report?
WORC.
This should be the Headine!
Copy your application to WORC rom the Start!!
Then follow up with them.. even if you are given a token Interview but not hired.
Bullshit. Does not work. Has not worked for years. Corruption is real and has been pervasive.
lol, $8K. That’s a nice lunch for these guys.
without the wine?
Employees offered the leftovers!