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Palliative care expert appointed as chief nurse

Palliative care expert appointed as chief nurse

| 21/02/2024 | 9 Comments

(CNS): The health ministry has appointed Felicia McLean as chief nursing officer, responsible for providing guidance on professional nursing matters to the minister, the chief officer, the chief medical officer and other government entities. Officials said the job involves strategic oversight of the standards of nursing education, regulation and practice across the three islands. McLean […]

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Local procurement manager promoted to deputy director

Local procurement manager promoted to deputy director

| 16/02/2024 | 13 Comments

(CNS): Robert Tatum has been promoted to the position of deputy director of the Central Procurement Office, government officials confirmed some three weeks following his appointment. The CPO is a critical department that oversees public spending and secures value for money for the public purse. Tatum, a graduate of the Cayman Brac High School, joined […]

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Appeal court finds BoR doesn’t protect charity workers

Appeal court finds BoR doesn’t protect charity workers

| 24/01/2024 | 18 Comments

(CNS): A woman who was fired from a non-profit organisation but had won a partial legal victory regarding her labour rights has lost to the government in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. The Grand Court had found that the Labour Act is incompatible with the Bill of Rights because anyone working for an NPO […]

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Year opens with a drop of over 1,000 permit holders

Year opens with a drop of over 1,000 permit holders

| 18/01/2024 | 113 Comments

(CNS): According to the latest statistics released by WORC, there was a significant drop in the number of work permit holders over the final quarter of last year. Since September, when there were a record-breaking 36,501 individual permit holders in the Cayman Islands, the number has fallen, for the first time since the pandemic, by […]

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WORC appoints two new Caymanian deputies

WORC appoints two new Caymanian deputies

| 25/10/2023 | 6 Comments

(CNS): Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), one of the government’s busiest departments, has appointed two Caymanians to the leadership team. Allison Lovinggood is now the deputy director of business operations, having been formally given the responsibilities she has held since December 2022. Mervin Manderson, who has been acting as deputy director of compliance, has […]

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Clifford prepares to hand CBC reins to deputy

Clifford prepares to hand CBC reins to deputy

| 13/10/2023 | 34 Comments

(CNS): The director of Customs and Border Control, Charles Clifford, is preparing for a long but what it appears will be a smooth transition to the next head of the critical agency. More than eight months before Clifford retires, his deputy and veteran official Bruce Smith has been confirmed as director-designate.

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Bank cutting jobs in global restructure

Bank cutting jobs in global restructure

| 06/10/2023 | 43 Comments

(CNS): Butterfield Bank is reducing its global workforce by around 9%, with the possible loss of 20 jobs here in the Cayman Islands. Officials from the bank told CNS Thursday that it will continue to operate in all of the jurisdictions where it currently has a presence, and there will be no changes to the […]

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Labour Force Survey reveals leap in expat workers

Labour Force Survey reveals leap in expat workers

| 06/10/2023 | 42 Comments

(CNS): “Growth cannot come at the cost of peace of mind and quality of life,” Premier Wayne Panton said Thursday as the Economics and Statistics Office released its Spring 2023 Labour Force Survey. The results show a record-breaking leap in the workforce of almost 8% since the spring of 2022, fuelled by a growth in […]

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Population grows 2.6% as work permits surge

Population grows 2.6% as work permits surge

| 21/09/2023 | 81 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands population has grown by at least another 2.6% to almost 84,000, according to the latest Labour Force Survey undertaken by the Economics and Statistics Office. The proportion of Caymanians in this new estimated population has dropped another 1% since the last survey in October to 46.5%, as the growth has been […]

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Tribunal ‘volunteers’ get major pay hike

Tribunal ‘volunteers’ get major pay hike

| 13/09/2023 | 20 Comments

(CNS): Cabinet has granted a significant increase in the money paid to members of the Labour Tribunal (LT) and the Labour Appeals Tribunal (LAT) for attending meetings, effective from the beginning of this month. While the members of these boards are volunteers, they are paid a fee for attending each meeting. This has been increased […]

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Minister urges young people to join safety services

Minister urges young people to join safety services

| 12/09/2023 | 28 Comments

(CNS): As Cayman marked the 19th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan striking Grand Cayman and the US marked the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attack, Home Affairs Minister Sabrina Turner stressed the importance to the community of the men and women who serve in public safety and uniformed jobs. Sabrina Turner urged young people to consider […]

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