Tag: Wesley Howell

CIG asks public to review $8.75/hour basic pay

CIG asks public to review $8.75/hour basic pay

| 08/03/2024 | 33 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government is seeking public comment on the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee’s long-awaited report, made public this week, and the recommendation to implement a new basic national minimum wage of just CI$8.75. No one from the elected arm of government has indicated whether or not the MWAC’s recommendations will be accepted and […]

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IAT chair will recuse from PR and status appeals

IAT chair will recuse from PR and status appeals

| 17/01/2024 | 34 Comments

(CNS): The chairperson of the Immigration Appeals Tribunal, Steve McField, will be expected to recuse himself from any appeals that relate to decisions made by the Permanent Residency and Caymanian Status Board between October 2021 and September 2023 while he chaired that board. It remains unclear how many PR applications were decided under the points […]

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Local civil servants take up key ministry posts

Local civil servants take up key ministry posts

| 25/07/2023 | 17 Comments

(CNS): The Ministry of Border Control and Labour has confirmed a new deputy chief officer and two senior policy officers. Danielle Roberts was confirmed as DCO in May, having been chosen over a dozen other Caymanians who applied for the senior job. Meanwhile, Rolna DaCosta and Justin Hislop have been appointed as senior policy officers.

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Voter roll has grown over 5% since elections

Voter roll has grown over 5% since elections

| 06/01/2023 | 38 Comments

(CNS): The new electors register published on 1 January shows that the list has grown by over 1,250 voters since the election in April 2021, an increase of around 5.6%, as the Cayman Islands faces a possible referendum this year on the decriminalisation of ganja and the introduction of a national lottery. Given the length […]

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Customs boss to face MPs on failures over improvements

Customs boss to face MPs on failures over improvements

| 25/05/2022 | 53 Comments

(CNS): Customs and Border Control Director Charles Clifford is one of several senior government officials due to face the Public Accounts Committee today (Wednesday) to explain why many of the recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor General have not been implemented. A report published in February highlighted the fact that the CBC has […]

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Tourism stipend phases out with $106M pricetag

Tourism stipend phases out with $106M pricetag

| 23/05/2022 | 73 Comments

(CNS): Today the government issued what is likely to be the penultimate payment to displaced workers who were registered for the tourism stipend programme, as it transitions those who have still not returned to jobs in the sector onto different grants or other support initiatives through the Needs Assessment Unit. By the end of June […]

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Tourism stipend issues puts ministry under pressure

Tourism stipend issues puts ministry under pressure

| 23/02/2022 | 60 Comments

(CNS): Many tourism stipend recipients had still not received their payments on Tuesday, as government’s efforts to review the system and move at least 600 people to a transitional grant have created a number of challenges and generated dozens of queries from those whose payments are going to be cut. A number of other recipients […]

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Cayman’s oldest resident dies at 106

Cayman’s oldest resident dies at 106

| 23/07/2021 | 19 Comments

(CNS): Wellesley Howell, a saxophonist, shoemaker and much loved character, died on Thursday night at the ripe old age of 106. The father of Wesley Howell, the elections supervisor and chief officer in the labour ministry, he was not only Cayman’s oldest resident but a well-known and much loved man who defied the whole of […]

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Cayman needs constituency boundary review

Cayman needs constituency boundary review

| 28/06/2021 | 47 Comments

(CNS): Among the many recommendations made by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association British Islands and Mediterranean Region (CPA BIMR), which conducted a ‘virtual’ mission to observe the Cayman Islands General Election 2021, the experts said the difference in voter numbers across Grand Cayman’s constituencies is too great and the boundaries should be reviewed.

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Election returns reveal few political donors

Election returns reveal few political donors

| 02/06/2021 | 34 Comments

(CNS): The candidates’ financial returns only reveal a snapshot of who gave what to whom during the recent election campaign. The ‘Alliance’, a combination of the Progressives and four independent candidates, reported the most income from larger donors but only cash payments of $5,000 or more have to be declared. The returns show that the […]

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PPM spent $480k on lost election campaign

PPM spent $480k on lost election campaign

| 31/05/2021 | 37 Comments

(CNS): The Progressives and their Alliance members spent just a few dollars short of the absolute maximum spending allowed under the law on their election campaign, and more than half of it appears to have come out of their own pockets. According to figures released by the Elections Office on the election expense returns by […]

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