Elections
CBWLC candidates largely agree on issues at forum
(CNS): Nickolas DaCosta (CINP) and Lonny Tibbetts (IND) articulated very few policy differences on Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum for Cayman Brac West & Little Cayman, the seat vacated by Moses Kirkconnell. During a polite question and answer session, the two candidates identified the same issues for the Sister Islands and the […]
Premier a no-show for election forum
(CNS): Juliana O’Connor-Connolly was a no-show for the Cayman Brac East Chamber of Commerce Candidate Chamber Forum on Tuesday. No explanation was offered by the hosts, and none of the other candidates even mentioned the premier’s name during the entire Q&A session. Maxine McCoy-Moore was also absent. There was no indication that the two missing […]
Bodden misses chance to score against minister’s legacy
(CNS): At the Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum for Bodden Town East on Friday, Robert Bodden (TCCP) failed to seize the opportunity to remind voters of the incumbent’s poor legacy in office as a minister and the representative for Bodden Town East over the last two terms. Dwayne Seymour bragged that he’d been a minister […]
CINP, PPM, TCCP or a Box of Frozen Squid
(CNS): In October 2011, CNS conducted a straw poll about which political group its readers would vote for at the next elections: the PPM, the UDP or a Box of Frozen Squid. The UDP is no more, but we still have the PPM plus two fresh new parties. So we thought we’d try this again […]
Minister fails to give full backing to minimum wage
(CNS): Jay Ebanks, who is still part of the outgoing UDP minority administration while campaigning to keep his parliamentary seat in North Side as an independent candidate, has backed away from a commitment to supporting an increase in Cayman’s woefully inadequate minimum wage. Answering a question at the Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum on Friday, […]
EE would-be MPs fail to call out incumbent minister
(CNS): The four candidates challenging incumbent MP Isaac Rankine for his East End seat failed to capitalise on the opportunity to call him out during the first of the Chamber of Commerce’s candidate forums. The candidates all said they planned to solve an array of problems, but Rankine, the current home affairs minister who has […]
CNS readers reject PPM team in ‘dream gov’ straw poll
(CNS): One week and more than 30,000 votes later, CNS readers have chosen a dream government that includes only one member of the Progressives. In our latest online straw poll, which offered readers the opportunity to choose their favourite candidates in all 19 constituencies, Roy McTaggart was the only member of the PPM who found […]
André hits out at special interests’ hold on politicians
(CNS): The Cayman Community Party’s leader André Ebanks has hit out at the special interest groups that he says have been influencing governments over the last few decades. Ebanks warned voters that the new lineup of Progressives, which includes three members of the UPM Cabinet, are under the influence of special interests and not in the interest […]
Interests register reveals only limited info on candidates
(CNS): All 59 candidates who were nominated for office on Monday have met the legal requirement to file a Register of Interest submission by the deadline. However, members of the public who want to find out the true net worth, debts or conflicts of the candidates they will be choosing next month won’t find the […]
Choose your dream government
(CNS): Nomination Day has come and gone, so we now know who will be running where. Come Election Day, registered voters will be able to vote for one candidate in the constituency where they are registered. But what if you could vote in every constituency? CNS conducted a straw poll in 2023 and found that most people […]
Nomination Day attracts 59 candidates for 2025 battle
(CNS): The Elections Office has confirmed that 59 candidates were nominated on Monday to contest the 2025 General Election on 30 April. This is not the biggest slate of candidates to run in an election as there were more than 60 in 2017, but it’s nine more than in 2021. There are also more candidates […]
