Elections
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 […]
Unlucky for some, JOCC is PPM’s 13th candidate
(CNS): Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, the premier in the outgoing government, has finally confirmed that she is not retiring and has answered the “call of her people” to run for office yet again, having rejoined the PPM fold. O’Connor-Connolly confirmed her much anticipated candidacy in an audio message from Cayman Brac. In another announcement, the audience heard […]
Veteran news broadcaster makes move into politics
(CNS): Longtime broadcaster and CIGTV news anchor Donna Bush was making instead of reading the headlines on Thursday when the Progressives announced she would be running for office in Savannah on their platform. Rumours that had circulated for more than a week that Bush would be replacing Josh Parsons, who recently dropped out of the […]
Frankenstein’s monster of Caymanian politics
Unbought Caymanian writes: It’s official — Cayman’s political merry-go-round has taken yet another spin, and we’re right back where we started. The Progressives (PPM), once seen as a somewhat steady hand, have now thrown caution, credibility, and any remaining standards out the window. The recent news that Kenneth Bryan, Dwayne “John John” Seymour, and, if […]
Lindsay seeking team committed to environment
(CNS): Alric Lindsay, a financial services executive, has thrown his hat in the political ring again in a third attempt to take the seat of George Town South, which is now open. Once again, Lindsay is campaigning as an independent but is open to aligning with a party or group if he can be convinced […]
Bryan finally breaks for PPM
(CNS): After several weeks courting Deputy Premier Kenneth Bryan, the incumbent for George Town Central, the Progressives have announced that he has returned to the party where he started his political career but then successfully ran for office twice as an independent candidate. The PPM made the announcement on social media as Bryan appeared on […]
