Tag: Alden McLaughlin
Premier defends Cayman in wake of Webb arrest
(CNS): As Cayman finds itself at the heart of what may be the world’s biggest ever corruption scandal, following the arrest of local football boss, Jeffrey Webb, the premier has defended the jurisdiction in a statement from his office about the FIFA probe. Alden McLaughlin said that local law enforcement agencies were cooperating with international […]
Weather impossible to predict, warns premier
(CNS): As the skies opened on Tuesday morning, dumping a deluge of rain on Grand Cayman and with more to come, the premier urged the public not to be too relaxed about the predictions of a very quiet hurricane season. Alden McLaughlin said he did not care for “hurricane predictions, especially when they tell us […]
Boards to blame over advert infractions
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin has pointed the finger at the immigration boards as the ones who should be asking the questions of employers who run recruitment advertisements that disenfranchise locals as they aim to recruit or retain specific work-permit holders. When George Town MLA and backbench C4C member Winston Connolly asked about the enforcement and […]
Dump equipment hire costs CIG $1M
(CNS): Leasing private sector trucks for garbage collection and equipment for the dump set government back over a million dollars in this financial year — and none of it was tendered — as a result of the fires and a high number of technical problems with the equipment. The premier, who took over waste management […]
Insurance firms drive-up health costs
(CNS): MLAs reluctantly voted for massive amounts of public money to cover the healthcare costs of those that are not properly covered by the private sector of government’s own insurance firm Monday. Alongside the millions of dollars that government pays for overseas healthcare for the poor and elderly, local healthcare costs and bad debt at […]
Alden: Bush is a destabilizing force
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin said the opposition leader possessed a magnetic ability to “attract scandals” and described McKeeva Bush as a destabilizing force on most of the governments he had served in during his more than 30 years in politics. As McLaughlin wound up the week-long budget debate Thursday, ahead of a unanimous vote, he […]
Alden hits back on OMOV
(CNS): The country’s premier has accused the opposition leader of repeating myths in the hope people will start believing it but that he was committed to electoral reform. In a short statement in the Legislative Assembly on Friday morning Alden McLaughlin hit back at McKeeva Bush’s allegations on Wednesday that the PPM leader did not […]
Mac takes credit and attacks Alden
(CNS): The increasing animosity between Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush and the Cayman Islands premier was on full display Wednesday when legislators returned to the parliament for the debate on the PPM government’s third budget. Bush took aim at Alden McLaughlin, criticizing him for the personal attacks he said the premier made about him in his policy […]
Mac calls on Alden to admit opinion on OMOV
(CNS): The opposition leader has said that he is willing to stand side by side with the premier, despite their current differences, in opposition to one man, one vote in single member constituencies if he is willing to admit his true opposition to the voting change. McKeeva Bush’s opposition to the plan is widely known […]
Composting plans in works
(CNS): In a major step forward in environmental management, the government is introducing a composting initiative which will see organic material that is currently dumped into the landfills put to good use. While it appears that any full-scale national solution to the country’s waste-management problems is still well over two years away, the premier has announced […]
CIG marches towards basic wage and daylight saving
(CNS): Government will introduce the $6 national minimum age and daylight savings next March, the premier has confirmed, giving the country around ten months to plan for both changes. In his policy statement Friday at the opening of the Budget Meeting in the Legislative Assembly, Premier Alden McLaughlin revealed that government had agreed to implement […]
