Tag: Tara Rivers
Survey finds 98% of job seekers not work ready
(CNS): A survey conducted by the National Workforce Development Agency (NWDA) of its registered clients who asked for support has found that 97.8% of local job seekers who responded were not work ready and have multiple barriers to getting a job. The survey is part of a newly released government report that has found a […]
High school project to restart in June
(CNS): After many years of problems at the new John Gray High School site, work is finally expected to restart in June, officials announced Wednesday. The education ministry has started the tendering process and adverts have been posted for potential contractors to begin the first phase of the works, a new school gym, to be […]
UK extends women’s rights treaty to Cayman Islands
(CNS): The UK has finally agreed to extend the international treaty it has signed regarding the prevention of discrimination against women to the Cayman Islands. After 12 years working towards this, the Cayman Islands Government learned this week that its request to have the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women […]
Online fundraiser to save challengers from bankruptcy
(CNS): A West Bay couple who have been ordered by the court to pay the education minister $140,000 to cover her costs to defend a challenge to her election have turned to an online funding platform to try and raise the cash and avoid destitution. John Hewitt, the husband of Velma Powery-Hewitt, an unsuccessful West Bay […]
Rivers presses for challengers’ bankruptcy
(CNS): Education Minister Tara Rivers is attempting to clean-out a couple who challenged her election more than two and a half years after the Grand Court dismissed a petition questioning her qualification to run for office. A bankruptcy petition filed by her lawyers at the end of last month is looking for almost US$140,000 to cover the […]
Cabinet rubber stamps minimum wage
(CNS): In just two weeks no one in the Cayman Islands should be earning less than $6 per hour as government has gazetted the National Minimum Basic Wage order to commence on Tuesday, 1 March. While 25% of the hourly rate can be made up of benefits, commission or gratuities, no worker, be they local […]
Chamber fumes quietly over Rivers’ comments
(CNS Business): Stuck between a desire to rail against criticisms levelled at it by the employment minister and a wish to show its willingness to cooperate with government, the Chamber of Commerce responded with a short public statement Tuesday. “In order to keep the focus on moving forward, the Chamber will state only that it is concerned […]
PTAs raise concerns about education
(CNS): The education ministry has admitted that representatives from a dozen government school PTAs raised a catalogue of concerns about problems in the education system with the minister and government officials at a recent forum. In what was described as “an informative and sometimes heated discussion on issues relating to understaffing, disruptive student behaviour, lack of […]
‘You tell em, Ms Tara!’
101 writes: So there we have it. Tara Rivers, the minister with responsibility for labour and education, has proven that not only does she have the thinnest skin in politics but that her electioneering clock is about 12 months ahead of everyone else’s. After an apparent attempt at putting the past aside to work more closely together […]
Rivers: Chamber has failed to deliver
(CNS): The apparent rapprochement between government and the Chamber of Commerce is not looking as harmonious as the new president implied earlier this week after the employment minister said the organisation had failed to deliver on promises to help government with employment initiatives. In a statement issued Friday criticising the outgoing president and the business body, […]
Diversity is economic advantage, says Rivers
(CNS): Minister of Education, Employment and Gender Affairs, Tara Rivers, has said that gender diversity gives companies an economic advantage. Speaking at the Fidelity CEO conference Tuesday as a panel discussion guest, she said that women in the workplace have traditionally had to be “twice as good as men to be seen as half as competent”. However, as […]
