Topic: Alden McLaughlin
4 percent pay raise for Cayman Islands civil servants
Civil servants will get a 4 percent pay raise in July, Premier Alden McLaughlin announced Wednesday.
Cayman’s changing skylines, coastlines and bloodlines
Immigration statistics suggest that one out of every five people living in the Cayman Islands has been granted permanent residence or Caymanian status within the past seven years.
Dozens seek political asylum in Cayman
Dozens of migrants apply for political asylum in Cayman each year, but a spare few of those applications are ever successful.
Immigration spurs Cayman Islands population growth
More than 12,000 people have gained Caymanian status or permanent residency since 2008, according to government data.
FOI Law: Open records, closed Cabinet
A recent ruling by the information commissioner puts the Cayman Islands government in complete control of fashioning its own message. This may be perilous – not to the media – but to the government.
Chamber of Commerce calls for new government accountability standard
The Chamber of Commerce acknowledges the government's progress in accountability over 10 years, but says there is a long road ahead.
Premier McLaughlin: Where credit is due
Appearances, particularly for the leader of a country, are of significance and importance.
Reining in Cayman’s public authorities
The Public Authorities Bill will grant the elected government more direct control over statutory authorities and government companies, as they should have, considering that those entities and their staffs are paid with public funds.
Funding for eastern roads still unclear
The construction of two new roads through Grand Cayman’s eastern districts, which would appear to be crucial for future economic development, is in doubt over questions of available funding.
Audit results: Applause yes; ovation, not yet
The government's announcement that two of its ministries received unqualified audit opinions is not yet cause for major celebration.
Government-owned media face merger
Cayman's government will merge its various media-related entities into one unit.
Gov’t credit card defrauded of $6,800
Premier Alden McLaughlin says his old government credit card number was apparently used by fraudsters.
Premier: No more ‘ad hoc’ management
Government authorities will be seeing big changes in their hiring and healthcare plans in the coming months.
170 graduate from UCCI
The University College of the Cayman Islands has celebrated the graduation of 170 of its students.
Two of 41 government entities ace audits
Cayman Islands leaders say public sector accountants appear to be getting their numbers “right the first time, and on time.”
Cayman’s Home Guard honored at Remembrance Day
Cayman's Home Guard during World War II earns special recognition during this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies.
More than 1,000 mourn Bethany Butler
A 6-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed on Grand Cayman last month is mourned across the Caribbean.
Government travel expenses reported
Several government ministries provide travel and credit card-related expenses.
Ministry of Education: Way over the limit on credit cards
If the saga surrounding the trial and acquittal of former Premier McKeeva Bush has taught us anything, it's the menagerie of approaches that Cayman Islands public officials have taken in regard to using government credit cards for personal purchases.
Cabinet gets new powers over planning
Cabinet will get new powers to waive some planning fees to encourage development under amendments to the law passed last week.
Charity BBQ cook-off decision goes to the dogs
The BBQ Battle of Lalique Pointe will officially go down as a draw, but thanks to Franz Manderson and Eric Bush, the Breast Cancer Foundation is the real winner.
Migrant detention nearly cleared out
The migrant detention center in George Town is now nearly cleared out, after the repatriation of two dozen Cubans.
Ministry digs in heels on expense records
More excuses are presented as to why the Ministry of Education cannot release its credit card statements.
New bill targets trade in stolen goods
Secondhand dealers who fail to alert police when they are offered suspected stolen goods for sale could face jail under a proposed law regulating pawnbrokers and cash for gold traders.
‘Project Future’: How far into the future?
The government's establishment of a "Project Future Steering Committee" is an early and easy, but important, step toward cutting the size and cost of the Cayman Islands civil service.
Cayman’s constitutional conventions
It seems like only yesterday that our government adopted the 2009 Cayman Islands Constitution, but already officials are considering 34 amendments to the 5-year-old document.
Commission recommends 34 constitution amendments
The Cayman Islands Constitution Commission recommends 34 amendments to the 2009 Constitution which it feels can be made by the mutual consent of the premier and the leader of the opposition.
Some Evans family members still looking for homes
The children of missing landfill worker Anna Evans and their caretaker have found accommodations through the Department of Children and Family Services, but several other family members are searching for a place to live.
Congratulations – Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin
Message from the premier.
As the dust settles on Shedden Road
The standoff with the squatters on Shedden Road finally came to an overdue conclusion yesterday amidst a mess of crushed plaster, shattered windows, bewildered children, defiant men and wailing women who were forced to leave the squalid premises.
Cayman Renewable Energy Association launches
The new Cayman Renewable Energy Association formally establishes itself tonight at a reception at Government House.
Prisoner release bill approved
Cayman's convicted killers will no longer be serving life in prison in most cases.
Legislators argue 30-year murder sentence revision
Lawmakers rail against lesser sentences for murder convictions.
Businesses urged to hire ex-cons
Prison boss Neil Lavis is urging business leaders to help end the revolving door syndrome fuelling crime in the Cayman Islands.
Work permit reform under way
Major changes are ahead in the Cayman Islands work permit system.
Deadline on daylight saving input nears
The public has just one more week to weight in on the subject of daylight saving time.
Business in brief
A roundup of local business news.
Security council holds three meetings in 18 months
Cayman's National Security Council isn't meeting very often these days.
Government employee of the year chosen
Venice Tatum is the civil service's Employee of the Year.
Officials unveil Cayman’s Ebola plan
Travelers arriving in Grand Cayman who have recently visited West Africa will be assessed by medics and quarantined as part of a new screening process designed to stop the Ebola virus reaching the island.
Gov’t backs daylight saving, but not Sunday trading
The government supports daylight saving time and will put the issue out for public consultation, but it has decided against general Sunday trading.
Assessment of money laundering risks launched
The assessment started with a series of workshops organized jointly by the Cayman Anti-Money Laundering Unit and the World Bank.
Builders Law to be resurrected
Cayman Islands construction companies and tradesmen will have to be licensed if amendments to the Builders Law, which was passed in 2007 and never brought into force, are passed in the Legislative Assembly.
Global tech giants coming to Cayman for conference
Some of the top technology companies in the world will visit the Cayman Islands in 2015 for an Internet Marketing Association conference hosted by Cayman Enterprise City.
Premier: $121M surplus ahead
Premier Alden McLaughlin said last week that Cayman's government should earn another big surplus in the current budget year.
Premier’s political assistant arrested
Kenneth Bryan, the political assistant to Premier Alden McLaughlin, was arrested over the weekend for public order offences, including allegedly assaulting a police officer, police confirmed Monday.
Ex-MLAs explain ouster of Bush
The politicians who voted 'no confidence' in the former United Democratic Party government stand by their decision.
More than 1,000 companies now ‘registered’
More companies are registered with the national workforce agency than are jobless Caymanians.
Cayman’s reflection in the North Atlantic
The conspicuous similarities between Bermuda and Cayman are so frequent in occurrence, and so fundamental in nature, that it would be most unwise for us to ignore them.
Government won’t sell Radio Cayman
Radio Cayman, the Water Authority and the Government Administration Building won't be sold, despite being among the recommendations of the EY report, Premier Alden McLaughlin announces.
Not guilty!
Cayman's former leader is cleared on all charges relating to his alleged improper use of a government credit card.
It’s time for our leaders to get off the sidelines
Cayman's "best and brightest" cannot remain above and aloof from our rough-and-tumble political discourse.
First capping ceremony for UCCI nursing students
Eleven sophomore students from the University College of the Cayman Islands School of Nursing have received their nurses caps.
Chamber: Civil servants shouldn’t lead downsizing effort
Cayman business leaders urge government not to put civil servants in charge of their own downsizing efforts.
The EY report: Who should be wielding the scalpel?
The Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce wants to know: Why have civil servants been tasked with making cuts to the civil service? ... Excellent question.
Going-out-of-business sale needed now for government
The only thing worse than a sprawling public sector bureaucracy is a sprawling public sector bureaucracy masquerading as, and competing with, the private sector.
Big salaries revealed in government authorities, companies
The salaries of the leaders of some government companies and public authorities leave one local lawmaker "shocked."
Constitutional change looming
Less than five years after approval of the 2009 Constitution, more legal changes are on the way.
‘Lost’ Girls’ Brigade sculpture located
Girls Brigade orders special transparent case to make crystal sculpture available for public viewing in the Legislative Assembly.
In search of a united Cayman
It seems Premier Alden McLaughlin has an incomplete understanding of where the Cayman Compass stands on immigration and the local economy. Let us respond to some of his concerns.
Government pledges to fix immigration 'anomaly'
Lawmakers try to fix a legal oddity that's causing headaches for Caymanians who are married to foreign nationals.
Independents drop ‘one man’ motion
Independent lawmakers agree to watch and wait on 'one man, one vote' ... at least for now.
Gov’t will seek to protect caregivers from rollover
Caregivers for the elderly, sick and disabled may be exempted again from rollover.
Watler: Looking out for CS membership
The Cayman Islands Civil Service Association pushes back over a consultant's report that suggests outsourcing for the public sector.
EY report: A test of our will and courage
This is the Cayman Islands' moment of opportunity, and it is also Premier Alden McLaughlin's defining moment.
Voting change ‘one’ step closer
The Cayman Islands government takes a symbolic first step toward changing its election system.
Premier: Government spent US$1M on Cuban migrants
The cost of illegal migration is going up in Cayman and across the rest of the Caribbean.
EY report: Gov’t should sell assets, outsource services
The potential sale of $65 million worth of government land and the outsourcing of all public sector medical operations were among the recommendations made for the short-to-medium term in a government consultant’s report released Tuesday afternoon.
Premier: ‘One man, one vote’ cements political parties
Cayman's premier says the territory's move to 'one man, one vote' will help cement political parties for elections.
FCA withdraws ‘high risk’ country list
The U.K.’s financial regulator has pulled a controversial list of countries considered high risk for financial crime.
Cautious optimism for ‘one man, one vote’
Supporters of 'one man, one vote' give government a provisional thumbs-up over its electoral reform plan.
Official: Credit card expenses ‘not in public interest’
A senior civil servant says it's not in the public interest to disclose government credit card statements.
