Tag: gas prices
Gas price demo organisers urge public to join in
(CNS): More than 8,000 signatures have already been collected by the organisers of the planned people’s march next Wednesday against high gas prices. With the green light from the deputy governor to collect more from civil servants at the Government Administration Building Friday and early next week, they hope to reach the target of 15,000 […]
Public backs gas price petition
(CNS): Organisers of a campaign pressing for a cut in gas prices and more government control of the bulk fuel importers’ pricing mechanisms have gathered well over 5,200 signatures in support of their action. At the weekend volunteers from the ‘Cayman Is Fed Up With High Gas Prices’ committee took to the streets across the […]
Fuel law changes include price data collection
(CNS): Proposed amendments to the law which deals with the importation of fuel will allow the chief petroleum inspector to collect information from importers relating to fuel prices and pricing methods. It also establishes a Fuel Standards Committee, which will be responsible for setting and publishing those standards. As government moves towards controlling fuel prices […]
Gas prices trigger public action
(CNS): With Cayman drivers still paying close to CI$5 per gallon for fuel, despite the massive fall in oil prices on the world market, a group of local people have come together to organize a public show of support to government and its plans to regulate the importers and do something about the “unreasonable” local gas […]
Rubis boss quits ahead of impending fuel controls
(CNS): The managing director of Rubis has quit his job at the helm of the fuel supply company ahead of government’s impending plans to introduce a utilities commission to regulate the industry and possible price controls. A spokesperson for Rubis said the resignation of Donald Gary had “nothing to do with the pending implementation” of […]
CIG to create utilities commission
(CNS): The government is making plans to create a public utilities commission, which will among other things regulate the fuel sector. Premier Alden McLaughlin is calling on the two oil suppliers to be more transparent about fuel pricing. Falling short of announcing possible price regulation at the pump, he said his government was “prepared to […]
Bush calls for fuel price transparency
(CNS): As the local pump prices seem to be taking an age to reflect the international fall in oil prices, the opposition leader has called on government to intervene in some way to make the local fuel suppliers more transparent about why Caymanians are forced to pay so much for gas. McKeeva Bush has filed […]
