Tag: Lands & Survey Department
Developer agrees to sell Smith Cove to CIG
(CNS): The premier has confirmed that the owners of the land north of Smith Cove who were planning a luxury condo development have agreed to sell the land to government at cost. Bronte Development are willing to enter into a deal and it was just a matter of setting the price, which the Lands and […]
Lands & Survey makes bid to collect missing duty
(CNS): Officials from the Lands and Survey Department are calling for people to pay duty on their leases. Information released under the FOI law last month in response to a request by local attorney Peter Polack revealed that the public purse was missing millions of dollars because many tenants of business or residential properties are […]
CIG missing $millions in rental stamp duty
(CNS): A memo that was written more than six years ago about government’s failure to collect stamp duty on residential leases suggests that the public purse is missing out on at least a million dollars every year in revenue that government experts said should not be very expensive to collect. Following a freedom of information […]
Lawyer queries Cayman’s stamp duty collection
(CNS): Questions have been asked as to how the Cayman Islands Government collects stamp duty on unregistered leases and whether some people, including civil servants, are getting away with not paying while others are being squeezed by ruthless landlords in the absence of protections and rights for local renters. Peter Polack has submitted a request […]
Convicted ex-civil servant escapes jail term
(CNS): A former civil servant who was convicted last year of stealing just under a thousand dollars from the public purse when she worked as a cashier at the Lands and Survey Department will not go to jail. Although a magistrate had handed Lavania Olivia Hume-Ebanks a 16-week jail term for the theft, the ex-government […]
