Tag: Sharon Roulstone

Community affairs CFO moving to WORC

Community affairs CFO moving to WORC

| 13/08/2018 | 17 Comments

(CNS): Joel Burke, the chief financial officer at the Community Affairs Ministry, has become the first person identified to take a permanent job at the government’s new department, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), which is expected to be up and running in January. Burke has been appointed as the deputy director of finance, administration […]

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More WORC legislation coming in next LA meeting

More WORC legislation coming in next LA meeting

| 26/07/2018 | 8 Comments

(CNS): The interim director of the newly emerging labour unit, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman, has said she expects that the legislative amendments reforming the work permit and labour management process will be debated at the next meeting of the Legislative Assembly. Sharon Roulstone said WORC is anticipating a second cycle of changes later this year, following […]

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CIG creates new department of ‘WORC’

CIG creates new department of ‘WORC’

| 25/05/2018 | 75 Comments

(CNS): Government’s much-anticipated merger of the work permit and residency elements of the immigration department with the workforce development agency will be known as WORC, according to a press release issued Friday. The establishment of this new department, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman, is geared towards restructuring the country’s labour market. The interim director of this […]

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Immigration to split into new agencies

Immigration to split into new agencies

| 04/04/2018 | 38 Comments

(CNS): As government begins work on shaping a new border protection force, which will see the customs and immigration enforcement arms merge and the creation of a new human resources unit, the immigration department as it is now will no longer exist. Speaking in the Legislative Assembly last month, the premier described the immigration department […]

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Roulstone moved to HR job weeks after OMB appointment

Roulstone moved to HR job weeks after OMB appointment

| 20/02/2018 | 38 Comments

(CNS): Less than four weeks after Sharon Roulstone was appointed to the Office of the Ombudsman to handle complaints about the civil service, senior officials have announced that she is being seconded to the National Human Resources Department to head up the new department. Government began the recruitment process for an interim director for the […]

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Local lawyer and cop join ombudsman

Local lawyer and cop join ombudsman

| 24/01/2018 | 26 Comments

(CNS): Local attorney and two-time political hopeful Sharon Roulstone has been appointed as the deputy ombudsman in the complaints division of the newly amalgamated office, which covers freedom of information as well as complaints about the public service. Peter McLoughlin, a former UK cop who has been with the RCIPS for nine years and previously […]

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General secretary resigns from CIFA

General secretary resigns from CIFA

| 01/09/2015 | 63 Comments

(CNS): Paul Macey has resigned from the Cayman Islands Football Association just days after he and most of the other members of its executive committee were re-instated during the annual general meeting on Saturday. The news comes against the backdrop of a possible local corruption probe into the local football body after its annual audit […]

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Challengers call foul on CIFA

Challengers call foul on CIFA

| 27/08/2015 | 16 Comments

(CNS): The two challengers who have been barred from running in this weekend’s CIFA annual elections have said they are astonished by the revelations on CNS this week that the decision to reject their nomination was made by the committee made up of the very members who are all now running unopposed in the annual […]

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CIFA nomination trouble worries sports minister

CIFA nomination trouble worries sports minister

| 19/08/2015 | 50 Comments

(CNS): Osbourne Bodden said he was concerned to hear the Cayman Islands Football Association had rejected the nominations of two challengers for official CIFA posts in what he said sounded like a very undemocratic process. The sports minister told CNS that he was not only surprised by the decision but confused as to what provisions […]

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