Tag: daylight savings
Daylight saving time plans shelved
(CNS): The premier has confirmed that plans to introduce daylight saving time in the Cayman Islands have been shelved. The government had indicated it would introduce the change to local clocks in March in order to keep in-step with Miami and New York throughout the year but Alden McLaughlin said Friday that as a result […]
The benefits of daylight savings time outweigh any inconvenience
Mario E. Ebanks writes: The Cayman Islands Government took the long overdue and wise decision to adopt Daylight Savings Time in March of 2016. What this means, simply, is that in the spring and summer months (beginning in March) we will migrate to an existing time zone, which will involve moving the clock forward by one […]
Daylight savings bill published
(CNS): The government has published the bill which, if it passes in the Legislative Assembly next year, will see Cayman introduce daylight savings in order to remain in sync with the east coast time zone in the United States. Having been debated for many years, it comes at a time when Florida is considering remaining on […]
PPM veteran rejects time change
(CNS): Political veteran and government backbencher Anthony Eden has urged his frontbench colleagues to rethink the decision to introduce daylight savings (DLS) time for a catalogue of reasons, and his objections were echoed by independent member Ezzard Miller during the current budget debate. While some in the business community have called for the clock change, the MLAs’ […]
