Topic: ken dart

On the morning of Monday, 31 March 2025, something completely new was about to be broadcast for the very first time. As the clock ticked the seconds down to 7am, viewers got their first-ever glimpse of Compass TV

Cayman’s largest investor, Dart Enterprises, issued a statement Tuesday emphasising its long-term commitment to the Cayman Islands.

The two drivers of the Cayman Islands economy – financial services and tourism – are powerful, but they are also vulnerable to shifting winds, both metaphorically (attitudes toward “tax havens”) and meteorologically (devastating hurricanes).

Businessman Ken Dart is making headlines on the other side of the world after donating more than 2,000 acres of land, including a hand-cut 43.4 mile mountain bike course, to the New Zealand government.

Dart NeuroScience, a developer of memory-improving drugs, is closing its operations in San Diego, laying off about 265 employees. Dart informed staff on Dec. 7 that owner Ken Dart had decided to stop funding the company.

Immediately hailed as a “new jewel” of Grand Cayman’s tourism industry, the Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa, opened for guests on Tuesday. The 266-room hotel has been four years in the making.

Today's lesson in responsible democratic leadership comes to us from, of all places, Argentina.

Before Argentina’s debt crisis is resolved – and prospects have been looking better lately – it’s worth pausing to ask why the stalemate has lasted so long. (More than a decade, but who’s counting?)