Topic: marriage

Government is moving to increase the number of years expats must be married to a Caymanian before they can qualify for status as it continues to clampdown on sham marriages.

With Cayman's borders still closed to visitors, local marriage registrar Joy Basdeo's destination wedding business may have taken a hit, but she says her enterprise is still flourishing, thanks to a spike in local nuptials.

A family of 58 from the United States descended on Grand Cayman this week, partly to celebrate a newly married couple and partly to acknowledge a long-standing love affair with the Cayman Islands.

No public vote on the acceptance of a legal status similar to marriage for same-sex couples is needed because the Progressives-led government has no intention of implementing such legislation, Premier Alden McLaughlin said Friday.

An East End man who married a girl he fell head over heels in love with at a town hall dance is just as much in love today as when he first met her on the dance floor 69 years ago.

Having once called Cayman home, Zoe Butcher, daughter of former police commissioner, the late Ronald “Ron” Francis Pocock, returned to the island for the first time after more than 40 years for her wedding at Surfers Beach in South Sound last week.