Tag: immigration department
Four officers complete year-long immigration training
(CNS): Four immigration recruits have now completed the department’s intensive 12-month training programme and will be deployed on the front line over the coming weeks at the airport and seaport after receiving their badges, epaulettes and certificates at a graduation ceremony last week. Stephanie Jackson, Jonathan Myrie, Darcia Phillips- Branch and Karena Wright were welcomed […]
Uniformed staff salaries on the up
(CNS): Firefighters, police, customs and immigration officers and other uniformed service branches will soon see a pay rise in addition to the 4% cost of living allowance (COLA) next month as their pay scales are being reevaluated to introduce fairness and take account of the risks involved in their work, the premier said. Since the start […]
English language standards in question
(CNS): An MLA has questioned the level of enforcement over English language standards among work permit holders after the Ritz Carlton recently undertook a recruitment campaign for a language tutor to improve the English spoken by hotel staff. Plans to mandate that permit holders sit a language test at international centres before coming here have […]
Crown won’t fight immigration battle
(CNS): A legal challenge mounted by a number of local finance firms to the release of work permit data under the freedom of information law will not be opposed. The FOI request for the details of work permits held by hundreds of local firms was made by a number of private individuals and a local […]
CIG seeks firm to deliver immigration online
(CNS): As government makes promises of much more transparency regarding the immigration system, it has begun the hunt for a private sector partner to deliver the software for a system that would streamline communication between the Department of Immigration . The advertisement in the local print media is seeking a fixed price to implement the […]
Conflicts focus of immigration training
(CNS): Staff working on the front line of the Department of Immigration were looking at ways to address conflict with customers this week. As government attempts to improve customer service across the civil service and with major developments at the department, the training was designed to show counter staff how to better handle the difficulties that […]
Immigration to open late Wednesdays
(CNS): After years of pleading from its customers, the immigration department is finally introducing late night opening, albeit on just one evening per week. Government officials have confirmed that, starting tomorrow, Wednesday 11 March, the office will be open for business until 7pm. If the extended service proves to be popular it is possible that […]
Judge’s ruling highlights weaknesses in Rickfield case
(CNS): A catalogue of disclosure problems, the potential interference of the attorney general in a criminal case, a finding by one officer that there was no criminal conduct and an inexplicable delay in the progress of the investigation were just some of the issues highlighted in a judge’s ruling relating to the case against the […]
Information boss cannot call back released data
(CNS): As the Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO) begins an enquiry into the recent release of a swathe of data relating to work permits, officials confirmed that the ICO cannot step in to resolve disputes over personal information until Cayman has a data protection law. Jan Liebaers, the acting information commissioner, said Thursday that he was […]
Rickfield acquitted after five year ordeal
(CNS): Tichina Rickfield, the acting Work Permit Board secretary, was acquitted of all the remaining charges against her Tuesday when a jury took less than two hours to find her not guilty on all seven counts of making a document without authorization and one count of misconduct in public office.
Case against immigration secretary halved
(CNS): The criminal case against Tichina Rickfield for altering the immigration database without authority was cut in half Friday, even before the defendant responded to the allegations, when the judge directed the jury to enter not guilty pleas in connection with eight of the sixteen charges. Crown prosecutor Toyin Salaka conceded that the crown had […]
