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Candidates must reveal interests and conflicts
(CNS Elections): All candidates who are hoping to be nominated tomorrow for the May 2017 General Election must submit a form outlining their financial and other interests that could impact them as political representatives. Election officials have said that the Register of Interest Law requires all candidates in the upcoming general election to file a register […]
Elections Office opens mobile and postal voting
(CNS Elections): Registered voters have until Friday, 12 May, to apply for either a postal vote or a mobile vote and the election’s office is urging people to make their applications as soon as possible. Anyone who is entitled to vote but who will be off-island on polling day, 24 May, can apply for a […]
Potential election nominees reminded of rules
(CNS Elections): The Elections Office is reminding potential candidates of what they need to do tomorrow, Nomination Day, if they wish to be nominated as a candidate for the May General Election. Officials said they must submit a 2” x 2” photo which clearly shows their face, to be included on the ballot paper, and hand […]
Tibbetts retires from politics while Eden sticks with it
(CNS Elections): Speculation over the future of two of the Legislative Assembly’s veteran MLAs was settled last night when Kurt Tibbetts confirmed his retirement from politics after 25 years in office, while Anthony Eden revealed he was going to seek another term and would be running for re-election in Savannah as an independent. The premier […]
Candidate question panels to cover all 19 districts
(CNS Election): The Chamber of Commerce candidate forums, where election hopefuls will be quizzed on key topics in their districts ahead of polling day, will take place in each of the new 19 constituencies where there is more than one candidate. In each forum the candidates contesting a specific seat will answer questions from Chamber members […]
Kurt’s brother contesting seat on Mac’s team
(CNS): Sibling rivalry will be pushed to a new level during this election campaign after Denniston Tibbetts was confirmed as the Cayman Democratic Party’s candidate for Red Bay at the weekend. The brother of Kurt Tibbetts, the former leader of government business, will be standing on the platform with McKeeva Bush. Kurt Tibbetts, the current […]
West Bayers inject competition into district fight
(CNS): Two more independent candidates have revealed their intentions to compete in the May 2017 general election for what could be hotly contest races in at least three of the West Bay seats. Mervin Smith has announced his bid for West Bay North and Katherine Wilks has declared for West Bay Central. Smith was supported by […]
Prospect shake-up as candidates come and go
(CNS): Allan Wagner, who was for several weeks the only candidate running in Prospect, has pulled out of the race because he doesn’t think he has the support he needs. But as the self-declared Christian conservative candidate concedes defeat, radio talk show host, Austin Harris, has thrown his hat in the ring for the seat along with […]
CDP party chair to run for GT North seat
(CNS Election): Theresa “Tessa” Bodden has been confirmed as the Cayman Democratic Party (CDP) candidate for George Town North. With less than a week to go until Nomination Day, she was among a flurry of candidates that emerged Thursday to confirm their intentions to run. This is Bodden’s first run for office and she is […]
CDP pushes back public general meeting
(CNS): The Cayman Democratic Party has postponed its first national public meeting of the election campaign, which was originally intended to be the moment when party leader McKeeva Bush unveiled his slate of candidates, until after Nomination Day. Following on the heels of the ruling PPM’s cancellation of their general meeting to announce candidates, the […]
