Topic: red tape

Christmas trees are supposed to be wrapped in colorful lights and garlands – not bureaucratic red tape.

Citing difficulties in dealing with regulatory requirements, most of the vendors that usually provide Christmas trees have said they will not be doing so this year.

Cayman Islands Governor Anwar Choudhury may be gone, but his pledge to “burn or shred” pieces of government bureaucracy has not been forgotten.

Harrison Bothwell closed his George Town jerk stand Friday, about two weeks after he first opened it, after work permits for his two cooks expired during an immigration process he described as “a nightmare.”