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Doctor denies ulterior motives over candidates
(CNS Elections): Dr Steve Tomlinson says people are misunderstanding his motivation for financing a group of candidates in the forthcoming general election. Tomlinson, who has given money to at least ten candidates who are running as independents in the national poll next month, told CNS he has “no hidden agenda” and “no ulterior motives whatsoever”, […]
Boundary commissioner defends work ahead of historic election
(CNS Elections): Steve McField has defended the work that he and his fellow boundary commissioners, Adriannie Webb and chair Lisa Handley, did to draw up the nineteen single-member constituencies for Cayman’s historic election next month. Despite lingering opposition to the change because of the small districts and the disappointment of some over the choices they […]
Mac calls on West Bayers to still vote straight
(CNS Elections): The leader of the Cayman Democratic party, McKeeva Bush, told voters in the district that they were still “one West Bay” and despite how much “they have tried to split up the country… you can still vote straight”. Speaking at the launch of the CDP West Bay campaign, where several hundred people turned […]
Elections Office turns to candidate qualification
(CNS Elections): With 63 people seeking election in May, officials from the Elections Office will now spend the next two days ensuring that all of them are qualified to stand, as several question have been raised around a small number of would-be politicians, officials have confirmed. Following changes to the Elections Law after the issues […]
Women make up 25.3% of election field
(CNS Elections): Just over a quarter of the candidates nominated for the 2017 General Election are women, which is a promising advance on the road to political equality. But given that women make up more than half of the population, they are still under-represented at the ballot box. Of the sixteen women from a field of […]
Warren may take cannabis debate to new level
(CNS Election): Dennie Warren Jr, who was nominated on Wednesday to contest the seat of George Town West, is expected to take the cannabis debate in Cayman to a new level, putting it squarely on the agenda for the general election campaign. But he is also keen to promote other aspects of his platform, including […]
63 candidates line up for 2017 race to the LA
(CNS Elections): The finally tally after nominations closed Wednesday for the May 2017 General Election was 63 candidates. This included 15 Progressives, eleven running with the Cayman Democratic Party and 37 people declaring themselves as independent candidates, including the current education minister, who has not, contrary to speculation throughout the day, joined the PPM. While […]
The Lion and Aunt Sookie to challenge Mac
(CNS Elections): Veteran MLA and opposition leader, McKeeva Bush, may have been the first candidate to be nominated in West Bay West on Wednesday but he wasn’t the last. At around 2:30pm Daphne Orrett (a.k.a. Aunt Sookie), who served in the Legislative Assembly in the 1980’s, was nominated as a PPM candidate and Paul Rivers […]
PPM in surprise GT candidate shuffle
(CNS Election): Marco Archer, the current finance minister and one of the Progressives’ most popular candidates, will be running in George Town Central instead of Premier Alden McLaughlin, who was expected to be in a head-to-head fight with his former assistant, Kenneth Bryan. The party had been tight-lipped about where many of their candidates were […]
Nomination Day to deliver political surprises
(CNS Elections): As the Progressives keep their line-up for the May 2017 election campaign under wraps until the eleventh hour, the Cayman Democratic Party re-jigs its George Town team and a few more independents limber up to declare, Nomination Day could throw a few political curve balls as strategy takes centre stage on the day […]
