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Community activist challenges PPM leader in GTN

Community activist challenges PPM leader in GTN

| 03/03/2025 | 43 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 | 19 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 | 18 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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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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Scott says free speech important after suing vlogger

Scott says free speech important after suing vlogger

| 28/02/2025 | 18 Comments

(CNS): Dan Scott, the leader of the CINP and candidate for Cayman Brac East, has said it is very important to protect free speech. As he left the courthouse on Friday after another hearing in his lawsuit against local vlogger Kerry Tibbetts-Whittaker, he told CNS that people can be insulting or mean about him but […]

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Gonzalez takes another shot at Newlands

Gonzalez takes another shot at Newlands

| 28/02/2025 | 6 Comments

(CNS): Raul Gonzalez Jr has announced his intention to make another bid for elected office as an independent candidate in the constituency of Newlands, where he will be going up against the incumbent, Wayne Panton (TCCP), and Alva Suckoo (PPM). This will be Gonzalez’ third time campaigning for the seat. In both of his previous […]

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TCCP unveils new candidate for George Town Central

TCCP unveils new candidate for George Town Central

| 27/02/2025 | 26 Comments

(CNS): Anthony Ramoon, a former national footballer, is stepping down from his job at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, where he has worked for almost two decades, to campaign for office in George Town Central with The Cayman Community Party (TCCP). Ramoon, a native of the capital, will be going up against incumbent Kenneth Bryan, […]

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John-John calls on premier to reconsider retirement

John-John calls on premier to reconsider retirement

| 27/02/2025 | 21 Comments

(CNS): Dwayne “John-John” Seymour has joined the call for Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly not to retire from politics but to contest her Cayman Brac East seat one more time. Appearing on Radio Cayman on Wednesday, he said that her experience was needed – echoing the same sentiment that Kenneth Bryan expressed a few days ago.

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Veteran news broadcaster hits hustings with PPM

Veteran news broadcaster hits hustings with PPM

| 27/02/2025 | 41 Comments

(CNS): Longtime broadcaster and CIGTV news anchor Donna Bush was making instead of reading the headlines on Thursday when the Progressives announced she would be running for office in Savannah on their platform. Rumours that had circulated for more than a week that Bush would be replacing Josh Parsons, who recently dropped out of the […]

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