Tag: Wilbur Welcome
Shoreline online map reveals limited beach access
(CNS): The government has produced a Shoreline Interactive Map (IMAP) that pinpoints public pedestrian pathways to the shoreline and public beach areas across the three Cayman Islands, with information about each spot provided in pop-up boxes. However, the map also reveals the limited public access to beaches on Grand Cayman. Despite some 300 points, there […]
Top posts at Lands and Survey filled internally
(CNS): The Ministry for District Administration and Lands (MDAL) has appointed Uche Obi as the new director of the Department of Lands and Survey and Michael Whiteman as deputy director. The two Caymanians were recruited from within the department as both had held long-standing senior roles. Having been identified as potential successors to the outgoing […]
Caymanians take on top jobs at MDAL
(CNS): The Ministry of District Administration and Lands (MDAL) has appointed Caymanian Chelsea K Whittaker as deputy district commissioner for the Department of District Administration, where she will be responsible for providing managerial, leadership and strategic policy support to Cayman Brac and Little Cayman District Commissioner Mark Tibbetts.
School project spending blurred in budget
(CNS): The total cost of the new John Gray High School development is forecast to be over CI$106 million, education ministry officials confirmed Wednesday during Finance Committee. But as the ministry sought the support of the committee for an additional $20 million to spend next year, the budgeting for the costly project became blurred when […]
Local civil servants move to senior ministry jobs
(CNS): Joel Francis has been appointed as the deputy chief officer for adult education, youth, sports and public libraries, while Wilbur Welcome has been made the deputy chief officer for agriculture, lands and administration at the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports, Agriculture and Lands. Within one of the biggest government ministries, the senior civil servants […]
