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EDITORIAL – ‘Government fiber’: A landmark intrusion into the private sector
When leaders of the Cayman Islands telecommunications companies heard Premier Alden McLaughlin say the government was going to build a fiber optic network throughout the east side of Grand Cayman – and make the telecom companies pay for it – they might have thought they were experiencing a “bad connection.”
EDITORIAL – Consultants’ reports: What did we get for $35 million of advice?
It is difficult to adjudge, in a vacuum, whether the nearly $35 million government spent on outside consultants over the past five years was too much, too little or exactly the right amount.
EDITORIAL – It may be easier to get PR; we will see if it’s...
Last week, the country received word that Cabinet had finally made long-awaited, and long-overdue, changes to Cayman Islands immigration regulations, in response to critical flaws in the permanent residence system that had been highlighted more than three years ago.
EDITORIAL – Civil service co-pays: Insuring the health of Cayman’s finances
No one ever said that pushing significant fiscal reform through government would be easy … or that attempting to rein in the runaway costs of civil service benefits would be politically popular.
Dump remediation: What it really means
When we refer to closing and remediating the George Town landfill, here's what we're talking about.
