Policy
Homeowners to get free energy efficiency upgrades
(CNS): Caymanian homeowners with a household income of $4,000 or less per month are being offered free energy efficiency upgrades to their properties to help them cut costly power bills. Applications opened Tuesday for CHEER, a new project funded by the sustainability ministry that will foot the bill for insulation, seal gaps and holes, replace […]
Lowest paid may get lower basic wage
(CNS): The chairman of the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee, Lemuel Hurlston, has indicated that the mandatory basic hourly rate, which hasn’t changed for seven years, obviously needs to be increased. But he said that the committee may recommend two different new rates, a system that domestic workers and gardeners could benefit from.
Activist: Biggest problem we have is the MPs
(CNS): Long-time advocate and champion of the natural world, Billy Adam, had the residents of West Bay all in agreement Tuesday evening at the first public meeting on Grand Cayman about the Climate Change Policy. Adam said that Cayman’s biggest problem in protecting its environment was all of the elected officials, a sentiment that appeared […]
‘Future’ guru sets sustainability stage for Cayman
(CNS): As Cayman battles to reflect the PACT Government’s sustainability policy beyond sustaining profit and prosperity, the premier’s ministry invited Wales’ former commissioner for future generations to Cayman this week to share how the small UK country became the first to pass legislation that forces its government to consider the impact of every law and […]
Ministers want to lock gate on Cabinet status grants
(CNS): Ministers Kenneth Bryan and Dwayne Seymour have called for a freeze on granting Caymanian status to residents who have been here for at least 15 years or who apply through Cabinet. The government frontbenchers said this was their own view and not yet a PACT policy, as it hadn’t been discussed. But they said […]
Sea inundation inevitable now, officials warn
(CNS): Sea level rise in the Cayman Islands is already having a significant impact on low-lying and coastal properties, and it is going to get far worse over the next 25 years, officials have warned. As the Ministry of Sustainability and Climate Resiliency begins its public meetings on the draft Climate Change Policy, the most […]
Lawyer urges gov’t not to stop PR process
(CNS): Given the number of issues impacting WORC and the local immigration system following the change in ministers and the recent appeal court ruling, local attorney Nick Joseph is urging the government not to pause the processing of permanent residency applications. With delays already mounting, he said the issues emerging over the last few weeks […]
Project aims to focus civil service on sustainability
(CNS): Premier Wayne Panton has said his government’s goal is for the Cayman Islands to be held up as one of the most sustainable countries in the world. However, two years into the PACT administration, very limited progress has been made on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that he wants to be the […]
PwC gets $89k contract to help PACT with sustainability goals
(CNS): PwC has been identified as the consultant company chosen to help the PACT Government align its policies with the UN Sustainability Development Goals. The contract, worth just over CI$89,000, was awarded at the end of last month and will run for twelve weeks. During that time, the consultants are expected to facilitate discussions around […]
Premier taking ‘hard look’ at PACT progress
(CNS): Ahead of the midway point of this administration, Premier Wayne Panton has admitted that PACT may not be getting everything right and said he would be taking a hard look at the situation to meet the promises to be a “different kind of government”. Addressing Chamber of Commerce members last week, the premier said […]
Consultants sought for sustainable goals policy
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government recently began a search for consultants to help PACT set out a policy around the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Ministry of Sustainability and Climate Resiliency is looking for experts to conduct a twelve-week project to facilitate discussions around sustainability both in individual ministries and across the entire government.
