Tag: Alden McLaughlin
End in sight for tyre trouble saga
(CNS): Following years of failed attempts by successive governments to remove the mountain of tyres from the landfill in George Town, the health ministry has finally signed a deal with a local firm, supported by overseas experts, to dispose of the unknown quantity of tyres that have accumulated at the dump site for years. After […]
Premier takes aim at anti-GM activists
(CNS): The Cayman Islands premier has called on the local activists, led by Dwene Ebanks, who challenged the government’s decision to allow the Mosquito Research and Control Unit to release bio-engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to reveal who backed the attempts to stall the project. Taking aim at those involved, Alden McLaughlin said many of those […]
Premier denies delay over cannabis oil laws
(CNS): The government has denied any delay in paving the way for the medical use of cannabis oil, following concerns that patients have been waiting more than nine months for the promised legislation. Premier Alden McLaughlin said officials have only been working on the necessary legal amendments since May, in the face of some opposition […]
Much-needed cannabis oil stalled by CIG
(CNS): A local woman with cancer was told by government more than nine months ago that legislation would be amended to enable her to import cannabis oil to ease her suffering, but she is still waiting. Despite public declarations by the premier in May during his budget address that this was a “matter of urgency” […]
Baroness commits to championing OT interests
(CNS): The new minister for British Overseas Territories, Baroness Anelay, has said she plans to champion the interests of the BOTs across Whitehall in the face of the uncertainties presented by the referendum result last month for the UK to exit the European Union. The premier has already written to the new minister inviting her […]
FCO says BOTs won’t be forgotten in Brexit
(CNS): Leaders from the British Overseas Territories meeting in the Turks and Caicos Islands this week heard that the UK will not forget them once it begins its negotiations to exit the European Union. Before the meeting got underway Richard Wood, the Head of the European Union Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, called […]
Baroness gets BOTs as part of cross-ministry portfolio
(CNS): Responsibility for the British Overseas Territories has gone to Baroness Anelay of St Johns (69), who has cross-ministerial responsibilities between the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development. The FCO confirmed Tuesday that the territories had been added to the baroness’s portfolio, despite incorrect announcements locally Monday that Sir Alan Duncan had been […]
Premier hopes for stability with UK’s new PM
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin has said the quick leadership change in the UK will bring a “semblance of certainty and stability” for the British overseas territories (BOTs) as well as Britain and help “move along the process” of Britain leaving the European Union. In the wake of Monday’s announcement that Theresa May will be the […]
EU exit provides chance to redo BOT relations, says UK minister
(CNS): James Duddridge, the British overseas territories minister who threw his support behind the campaign to leave the European Union, has told the Cayman Islands premier that the exit provides an opportunity for the UK to “recalibrate” its relationship with the BOTs. In a clear indication that the British government is going to be turning […]
Alden: Independence would be ’asinine’
(CNS): The premier said the Cayman Islands is much too small in population terms to consider independence and the people would have to be “lunatics” to make such a decision. As the country took a day off Monday to mark its first constitution signed in 1959, the premier said the current 2009 document was a […]
Constitutional reform considered as Cayman takes a holiday
(CNS): As people enjoyed a day off Monday to mark the first constitution in the Cayman Islands’ history in 1959, Premier Alden McLaughlin pointed to the importance of the one that came 50 years later. He said that the 2009 constitution steered through by the previous PPM government had established a new and modern framework […]
