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TCCP to launch campaign at home of local democracy

TCCP to launch campaign at home of local democracy

| 05/03/2025 | 7 Comments

(CNS): The Caymanian Community Party is holding its official party and campaign launch on Saturday night at the home of democracy in the Cayman Islands. All ten members of the new party will hit the hustings together at Pedro St James for a family-friendly event of community, connection and conversation about Cayman’s future with TCCP […]

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Party leaders begin battle for premier’s job on 30 April

Party leaders begin battle for premier’s job on 30 April

| 04/03/2025 | 18 Comments

(CNS): Progressives (PPM) Leader Joey Hew, The Cayman Community Party (TCCP) Leader André Ebanks, and Cayman Islands National Party (CINP) Leader Dan Scott have swung into battle to try to secure ten seats on 30 April and become the Cayman Islands’ next premier. Any party with ten MPs would be a majority in the House […]

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59 candidates nominated for 2025 April election

59 candidates nominated for 2025 April election

| 04/03/2025 | 8 Comments

(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 […]

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Community activist challenges PPM leader in GTN

Community activist challenges PPM leader in GTN

| 03/03/2025 | 33 Comments

(CNS): Romellia Welcome, a well-known grassroots community activist, has declared her candidacy for George Town North as an independent, taking on PPM Leader Joey Hew. Welcome, who announced her candidacy on Nomination Day, has ensured that Hew will not be automatically elected to GTN. She said that if elected, her priorities would be the environment, […]

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Radio host to take on leader of TCCP in WBS

Radio host to take on leader of TCCP in WBS

| 03/03/2025 | 18 Comments

(CNS): Well-known radio host Sterling Dwayne Ebanks, who has been hosting the lunchtime phone-in show, Talk Today, on Radio Cayman for many years, has thrown his hat into the political ring to go up against André Ebanks in a head-to-head race for the Cayman Islands constituency with the largest number of voters. Sterling Ebanks announced […]

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Bryan’s sister pulls out of political race for GTW

Bryan’s sister pulls out of political race for GTW

| 03/03/2025 | 4 Comments

(CNS): Patricia Bryan, who had announced that she intended to run for office in the constituency of George Town West, pulled out of the race on Sunday ahead of Nomination Day. Bryan, whose brother, Kenneth, is the incumbent PPM candidate for George Town Central, had planned to run as an independent. However, she said she […]

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Daughter to fight for dad’s former West Bay seat

Daughter to fight for dad’s former West Bay seat

| 03/03/2025 | 13 Comments

(CNS): Shakeina Sade Bush has declared as an independent candidate for West Bay North in next month’s general election. The daughter of Bernie Bush announced her intention to fight for her dad’s seat on social media at the weekend. In a press release issued Monday, the former public servant, who served on the Central Planning […]

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Experienced incumbents vs. patriotic candidates

Experienced incumbents vs. patriotic candidates

| 03/03/2025 | 9 Comments

Cayman Sentinel writes: For decades, Caymanian politics has been dominated by the idea that experience is the most valuable asset a candidate can have. Career politicians tell us that because they have been in office before, they are the only ones qualified to lead. They argue that without their knowledge of government operations, the country […]

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Repackaged political convenience

Repackaged political convenience

| 02/03/2025 | 42 Comments

Michael Myles writes: As a citizen of my beloved Cayman Islands, I write this with a deep sense of frustration and disgust at how low and dishonest our political landscape has become. On 1 March, I witnessed politics at its worst — a spectacle of hypocrisy disguised as leadership. The chairman of the PPM stood […]

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JOCC shelves retirement, returns to PPM

JOCC shelves retirement, returns to PPM

| 02/03/2025 | 63 Comments

(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. Party Chair Sir Alden McLaughlin announced her return to the hustings at the Progressives’ conference Saturday night, saying that […]

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