Topic: Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith named CBC director designate
Senior civil servant Bruce Smith has been named as the Customs and Border Control director designate and will take over the reins from Charles Clifford who is set to retire next year.
Cayman set to ramp up Cuban repatriation effort
Cayman's Customs and Border Control is expected to increase its repatriation efforts as acting CBC Director Bruce Smith stated that “additional migrant repatriation flights are being coordinated for the very near future".
Final graduating class for Department of Immigration
The Department of Immigration graduated a class of nine new officers Friday, marking the final recruitment cohort before the department merges with Her Majesty’s Customs service in 2019.
Amnesty period nets 13-year overstayer
A total of 14 foreign nationals who stayed beyond the period of their legal residence in Cayman – including one who lived here illegally 13½ years – have turned themselves in to immigration authorities during this month’s amnesty period, the Immigration Department announced Wednesday.
Basic training begins for customs, immigration recruits
Twelve new customs officers began their basic training last week after joining the service following a recruitment drive.
Immigration misses FOI Law time lines
A local law firm said this week that it has been unable, for the past few years, to retrieve public documents relating to how Cayman Islands Immigration Department boards and staff members process various applications for work permits, permanent residence and Caymanian status.
Plea for patience over airport lines
Immigration officials are asking for patience from passengers amid concern over long lines at Grand Cayman’s airport.
Workers waiting weeks for English language testing
Workers from non-English speaking countries are facing a delay of up to several weeks in some cases before they can take a required English language test to obtain a Cayman Islands work permit.
Cayman cuts permit fees for hurricane evacuees
Hurricane evacuees who have come to Cayman from the British Virgin Islands and other eastern Caribbean financial services centers can receive reduced-price or even free temporary work permits, after their initial permission to stay on island has expired.
Cayman takes in 170 hurricane evacuees, more may come
A total of 170 evacuees have arrived in Cayman in the wake of Hurricane Irma and more are anticipated as a result of Hurricane Maria which this week pounded a number of eastern Caribbean Islands, territories that were already reeling from catastrophic storm damage.
Interns spending summer at Immigration
Sixteen young Caymanians, from various high schools and colleges in Cayman, are working this summer at the Department of Immigration. They were welcomed by Acting Chief Immigration Officer Bruce Smith.
