Tag: Progressives
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 […]
PPM and independent candidates emerge for nomination
(CNS Elections): After keeping a very tight lid on exactly who they would be fielding and where, the Progressive candidates began to emerge Wednesday morning for nomination. The current speaker of the House, Julianna O’Connor-Connolly, was nominated for the first time as a PPM candidate for Cayman Brac East, while Moses Kirkconnell was nominated for […]
Rate the performance of current Cabinet members
(CNS Elections): The 2013-2017 administration is the Progressives’ second term and the first with Alden McLaughlin as premier. The PPM leader during the party’s first administration, Kurt Tibbetts, stayed on in the government, taking up a portfolio that included planning. Moses Kirkconnell, in his third term as an MLA for the Sister Islands, is deputy […]
PPM postpone party conference
(CNS Elections): The People’s Progressive Movement has postponed its party conference due to the workload in the Legislative Assembly, leaving the date of the announcement of the full slate of PPM candidates and where they will be running unclear. Party officials told CNS Monday night that discussions were underway about when the team of candidates that will […]
Will candidate affiliation affect your vote?
(CNS Elections): So far, two parties have said that they will be fielding candidates in the May elections: the ruling Progressives (a.k.a. the PPM) and the Cayman Democratic Party (CDP), which was formerly the United Democratic Party (UDP). Two of the declared candidates have said that they are running as a group with other, as […]
PPM to reveal candidates in six weeks
(CNS Elections): The Progressives will not be unveiling the slate of candidates it will field in the forthcoming general election and the constituencies they will stand in until Saturday 18 March — just 11 days before Nomination Day. The ruling party’s pre-election conference will take place at the Family Life Centre, where the PPM membership […]
Politics of fear can’t be ignored, says McLaughlin
(CNS Elections): The Cayman Islands premier and leader of the Progressives remains confident that under his leadership the people of Cayman are going to give his party a second term. Alden McLaughlin’s confidence comes from the improvements to the economy and fall in unemployment. But yesterday he also signaled his concerns over the politics of […]
Progressives take aim at criticism from would-be candidate
(CNS Elections): The ruling party has been quick to defend its record on the economy and denied that foreclosures have increased since they took office. Accusing at least one potential candidate of using “alternative facts” regarding repossessions, the PPM has said that the percentage of people losing their homes is now very low. Chris Saunders, […]
